Web Hosting Geeks' Blog » E-commerce http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog Web Hosting Industry News, Latest Trends, and Analyses. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:48:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How the Kindle Fire is a Catch-all Reflection of Current Web Trendshttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/10/14/kindle-fire-catch-all-reflection-of-current-web-trends/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/10/14/kindle-fire-catch-all-reflection-of-current-web-trends/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:08:22 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=2715 Do you know what’s one wonderful thing about history?  At any moment in time society is caught up in countless evolving trends that will be fascinating some day to the historian.  While you’re living in them, though, they can be difficult to see.  This is not a bad thing.  It’s by all of us “enjoying the moment” that these stories get written in the first place.

Now and then, though, we see something that reminds us that we can take a step back and look at some bigger picture.  We typically refer to this as a “sign of the times.”  In browsing there some recent tech news I caught up with some of the newest information about the latest product from Amazon, the Kindle Fire.  In reading the early reviews of this device, I realized that this is a great example of this phenomenon.  The Kindle Fire is the coalescence of many modern web trends all shoved into a single new device.

Here’s a rundown of this new toy’s features, and why it’s a good reflection of the World Wide Web, circa 2011.

It’s a tablet.  Stop there.

When was the last time there was a new desktop PC that was released to such fanfare that it took the tech world by storm?   I honestly can’t remember myself.   More get released than we can keep track of, and they all draw collective shrugs, even as we continue to gobble them up.

When a new portable device of almost any kind is released now, though, it’s like watching a old-style carnival where crowds rush back and forth in swarms between new attractions.  Then what follows from it is a scrambling of analysis and IT reshuffling, as the rules for how things were done before get altered by the specifications of this new interface.

Web browsers as integrated components of E-commerce

 Gone, it’s starting to seem, are the days of web browsers simply existing to allow users of all platforms to browse all web sites with the greatest of ease.  Former love affairs like Netscape and then Mozilla existed because of programmers who looked at the browsers that came before them and saw how they could make them better.

Such is not the case with Amazon Silk, the browser built into the Kindle Fire’s Android-based operating system.  Programmed into it are features specifically designed to work with Amazon, or its Kindle, or both.  In fact, at least as of right now, Silk exists only on the Kindle Fire.  However, some commentators have found reason to believe that this might be a test run.  If the Silk gets a strong enough reception, it’s reasonable to believe that Amazon might use this as a launching pad to get this browser into other more popular operating systems.

It’s important to recognize what this means, if so.  It means that a retailer is using the technology of a new device to push a new browser to devices outside of it: a new browser that, in turn, was created to drive more customers their way.  So you might someday be on FaceBook, mention a movie, and get a free trial download suggested to you by Silk on your PC because of this device designed to get people to buy more books.

To try to put this into perspective, this would be like Walmart, instead of making you want to shop there more, designing cars that are specifically engineered to make driving to their store easier, and then that technology making it into cars that had nothing to do with Walmart in the first place.  Some might argue that Microsoft already pulled this trick with their Internet Explorer.  It’s not a bad example but Amazon being a non-IT-based (i.e. “old economy”) company at its core, this analogy doesn’t match up that well.

The cloud eats everything!

There’s more.  Silk is designed to be what Amazon calls a “split browser.”  What they mean by this is that some of the browser’s more processor-intensive functions get farmed out to Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2).   Amazon’s EC2 isn’t entirely new, with 5 years of development behind it, and Amazon has already integrated this technology into other facets of their business.

Putting it directly into their new browser, however, represents one of the most invisible forms of cloud computing yet.  This may seem little, but it quietly signifies that we’ve crossed a threshold in how we handle even the most basic computing tasks.  The immediate reason for the development is that, by sending out computing tasks that take some muscle, your device can cut down on the amount of processor time per request, and thus extend its battery life.

Here is the larger point.  As cloud technology integrates itself into our computing world on continually smaller computational task levels, computing devices and their associated programming languages are going to have to increasingly take into account the possibility that the requests they are serving are not local.  This signifies a whole lot of seismic information technology changes, not the least of which is the potential for a whole new generation of security issues.  This might be why one user described the Silk as being about as “secure as a bathroom stall without a door”.

Spending money to make money – the next generation

Still, that probably won’t stop those lining up to buy it given the Fire’s aggressively low price of $199 per unit.  This blows away a lot of the related devices that consumers might choose this over.

There is something important to note in this low price, though: it’s lower than the manufacturing cost by about $50.  Amazon is outright expecting to lose money on each Fire sold.  In turn, they’re expecting to gain that much more from the extra sales of digital media that this new tablet will push.

It shouldn’t take an economic genius to divine all sorts of fascinating conclusions from this bold marketing play.  Here’s the most obvious one we get out of it.  This is the strongest proof yet that the move towards making digitally downloadable media a viable long-term economic model, which was the point of the original Kindle in the first place, has proven successful.  Amazon couldn’t have made such a daring move as this without a room full of number crunchers displaying charts that showed just how much they were sure they’d recoup.  This makes the release of both the original Kindle and the Fire a major event in the piracy/intellectual property wars, itself another important modern battlefield.

A sign … but of what?

Before we betray too much excitement here, let’s be clear and state that we can’t tell just yet where this is all going.  Especially with the huge price gamble that Amazon has taken with this device, it’s not impossible that, before all is said and done, the Kindle Fire will go the way of New Coke.  Amidst the excitement for it are a lot of valid concerns, and we’ll have to see how they play out.

The Kindle Fire is a fascinating new development to watch, largely because it highlights where much of our web and E-commerce development is going.  The great thing about signposts, though, is that they only tell you where you’re going.  They don’t tell you what it’s going to look like when you get there.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/10/14/kindle-fire-catch-all-reflection-of-current-web-trends/feed/ 0 Linux and E-Commerce: The Top 5 Best Hosts for Two Long-term Trendshttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/09/25/linux-e-commerce-best-hosts/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/09/25/linux-e-commerce-best-hosts/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:05:37 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=2483 Let’s mix up two of the biggest of web hosting trends for this Top 5.  Linux is quickly becoming the operating system of choice for many webmasters.  It goes without saying that where there’s web hosting, there is a need for E-Commerce.  Given the enhanced reliability and added security that comes from a Linux server, more hosts offer it, and thus, it appears likely that the intersection between these two trends will only keep growing stronger.

If that’s the case, then it’s a good idea to go over the options available to someone investigating Linux servers and E-Commerce for their web sites.  Here are five hosts that are good selections for the Linux E-Commerce user, judged not just by their specific E-commerce offerings, but by what else they have to offer surrounding those packages:

1) WebHostingHub

WebHostingHub’s Premium Website Builder lets you build a storefront from scratch without having to fuss with any other programs.  For those of you who want to dive into the nuts and bolts, though, WebHostingHub should have everything you need to get started.  Their supported shopping cart packages include Cube Cart, OS Commerce, and Zen Cart.  Among important and related features are RingCentral, a virtual phone system, RatePoint, a word-of-mouth marketing program, and iContact, an email marketing tool.

2) JustHost

This big name in the web hosting world impresses with a strong array of both E-commerce and other supporting features.  They offer OS Commerce and Agora shopping carts, several types of security protection, Merchant Account and PayPal support.  Their accounts also come with several different types of site building software and lots of ad credits.

3) iPage

The very affordable web hosting accounts at iPage have three shopping cart options (ShopSite, osCommerce and Agora), multiple content management system packages, $150 in ad word credits, related scripting and other software of all varieties.  They are one of the largest hosts around today, meaning they have experience in managing and supporting these packages.

4) DowntownHost

One of the better-kept secrets in the hosting world, DowntownHost has a dazzling array of features.  CubeCart, OS Commerce and Zen Cart are all offered.  Even more impressive is their dozen different portals and content management systems, 5 blogging software packages, 2 project management software packages, and a few miscellaneous programs that you don’t see often but could greatly enhance the right E-commerce site, such as Noah’s Classifieds and PHPAuction.

5) BlueHost

Another big player in the web hosting world with millions of sites on their servers, BlueHost has one of the largest selections of shopping cart systems, with OS Commerce, Agora, Cube and Zen carts all present.  Rounding out their offerings is support for lots of types of multimedia, script support with some more rare inclusions such as DHTML, and an average 30 second hold time to reach a technical representative.

As stated above, the amount of hosting companies that we will be looking at for this category will likely do nothing but increase over time, and increase rapidly.  It appears safe to say, though, that these five companies will continue to have a strong place on our list for some time to come.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/09/25/linux-e-commerce-best-hosts/feed/ 0 Flash Sales – Serious New Trend or Flash in the Pan?http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/09/16/flash-sales-serious-new-trend-or-flash/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/09/16/flash-sales-serious-new-trend-or-flash/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:24:54 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=2358 In the lighting fast changing world of E-commerce trends hop over each other like jumping beans.  Entirely new ways of doing business appear like wildfire, especially with retailers desperate to get access to the extra few free dollars still floating around in the dismal economy.  Into this tenuous economic climate appears the newly popular flash sale.

Think of it as the next generation of the Home Shopping Network, without the irritating announcers.  Amazing deals appear on products, but only for a limited time, with a timer usually right there next to the product.  The deals really are excellent, with 60-70% off discounts not uncommon.

So far so good

The early numbers indicate that it is definitely giving the E-commerce world a shot in the arm.  One study indicates that since 2009 visits to flash sale web sites have been more than doubling each year., with some of the central flash sale hub web sites quickly moving up the traffic rankings.  What’s more is that the same study indicated that these sites are popular across all income levels.

A greater sign that this is catching on is that the concept is spreading beyond the major flash sales web sites.  As usual, Facebook is leading the charge on the social networking front.  A plug-in already exists for Facebook store fronts to add flash sales to their site.  And major retailers themselves are now integrating flash sales into their own web sites.

The Danger – An exhausted consumer base

In addition to the fact that liquidity is becoming a thing of the past (ie, we’re all broke or in debt), the success of this trend has the potential to be its undoing.  One study reports that more than 50% of subscribes to flash web sites are finding themselves overwhelmed by the number of offers they are receiving.  Clearly this is an economic tactic that is more sensitive than normal to saturation.  The whole appeal to this type of tactic, after all, is its spontaneity.  When spontaneity becomes the expected it defeats its own purpose.

One solution – integration

If you are someone who is running a store front and thinking of integrating flash sales into your business, one suggestion that some observers remind you of is to link this idea with the power of socialization.  This does not so much mean a major networking site.  It simply means giving consumers a way to communicate with each other, to share thoughts about a product, as well as to just make it more of a social occasion.  There are more products out there today that integrate this into their ecommerce technology.

At the same time don’t shy away from social networking as a tool here.  Twitter, in particular, is especially attuned to being useful to these ends.  Nothing will help sales to your product like a shout out from someone to 500 people who trust them that a certain product a lot of them like is available for dirt cheap for another 4 hours.

In short, while there are always pitfalls to any new idea, the early verdict seems to be that flash sales as a marketing technique have serious potential; and thus, the serious ecommerce user should be taking a serious look at using them. In addition, make sure you pick reliable hosting for your ecommerce website.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/09/16/flash-sales-serious-new-trend-or-flash/feed/ 0 E-commerce and Social Media: No Longer Oil and Waterhttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/09/06/e-commerce-and-social-media/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/09/06/e-commerce-and-social-media/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:35:18 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=2155 Once upon a time, there was a hard and loudly enforced social rule on the internet: there were places to hang out and places to shop, and never the twain should meet.  Anyone who dared break this rule suffered the wrath of the collective cyberworld, and the results weren’t always pretty.

This rule was strongly agreed upon and enforced by any means necessary until about five years ago.  It’s difficult to say exactly what happened to cause this shift.  Likely, it was a combination of a number of factors.  For one, there was a general sense that web site users were getting a bit of a free ride and that the money for web site owners to pay their bills had to come from somewhere.  Also, whereas businesses who wanted to find new customers before had to resort to reviled options such as direct email solicitation (forever etched in our vocabulary now as “spamming”), now alternate means exist, mostly through non-intrusive means found on social networking web sites.

Jump on in!  But do it right.

This means that those who are in new or growing businesses who want to use social media web sites to increase their customer base no longer have to worry about the blowback from treading in forbidden waters.  However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t still certain rules that apply.  It also doesn’t mean that it’s just as simple as slapping down an ad and forgetting about it.

If you’re a business who wants to expand into the social networking world, here are a few things to keep in mind:

1) Work with the site, and the users

Since large social networking sites need your money to keep going, they’ll be in the best position to tell you what the lay of the land is like: they’re not going to want to see you set up shop just to get chased out of town for not following some social code you didn’t know of until you broke it.

Also, listen to user feedback.  While there will always be some trigger-happy users who find spam everywhere they look, generally you’ll get a good idea of what’s fair and what’s not from user reactions.  And if you actually asked, you’d be in such a rare category that you’d automatically earn a certain level of respect.

2) Follow the cool kids

Yesterday it was MySpace.  The day before that it was LiveJournal.  Today it’s FaceBook, but there are already signs that it might have peaked.  Tomorrow it will be someone else, possibly FourSquare, or likely Google Plus.  The “hot spot” changes at lighting pace.  You need to move just as fast.

3) The toys change too

In addition to new places on the web, you will need to keep track of new ways to access the web.  PCs aren’t exactly dying as much you might hear, but iToys are going to become more and more frequent.  These new technologies more and more often include in their embedded software ways for businesses to interact with customers without having to go through a web browser.

One last bit of advice: hire an IT guru.  Or if IT is your specialty, hire a marketer or secretary.  The point is that just keeping up with how your business does Ecommerce is enough to keep one person busy for well more than 40 hours a week.  You’re going to want to make sure that you have someone who can focus on that, and only that.  Social networking is no longer a no-business-class zone.  They can and do now coexist.  You just have to devote the resources necessary to do it right.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/09/06/e-commerce-and-social-media/feed/ 0 Preventing e-Commerce Shopping Cart Abandonmenthttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/06/24/preventing-e-commerce-shopping-cart-abandonment/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/06/24/preventing-e-commerce-shopping-cart-abandonment/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:50:06 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=1683 While it’s important to direct traffic to your online e-commerce venture in hopes of yielding substantial profits, it’s equally as important to ensure potential customers actually follow through with the online purchase transaction once the selected items placed in a shopping cart are to be processed at the “check out”.

Many online merchants assume that once a potential customer drops an item in a shopping cart that it’s basically a done deal and calculate it prematurely as a finalized transaction.  Recent stats among large online retailers, however, reflect a shopping cart abandonment rate of over 70%.   Not only are these stats troubling to large online ventures, but small online endeavors also feel the financial wrath of shopping cart abandonment issues.

The Indecisive Shopper

Although shopping cart abandonment is among one of the largest marketing hurdles for online retailers to overcome, there are proactive steps online merchants can take to make the checkout process more user-friendly.   Of course there are some influences that are simply beyond their control such as the inevitable event of potential customers changing his or her mind before completing the online transaction.  Unfortunately, this is a factor that is entirely dependent on the customer’s needs as well as a strong marketing strategy to sell a product or service.

Real Time, Real Support

Perhaps the greatest way to prevent shopping cart abandonment is by offering real time customer service support.  Often many customers encounter technical difficulties during the online transaction process.  It’s not only frustrating for customers, but also to online merchants facing the potential of a missed opportunity.  Reliable and efficient customer support is an effective solution to walk customers through the online purchasing transaction should issues arise.  Ideally, live chat and toll-free phone support are the best options to provide immediate assistance to answer questions in real time during the actual transaction.

No Registration Required

As an online merchant, it’s imperative to cater to customers to allow them a quick and easy transaction without first having to register with a website or signup for a newsletter.  While it’s a great way to track visitors and sale leads, for many potential customers it’s an automatic turn-off as they may not have the desire or time required to fill out registration information.  Instead, offer customers the option to make an online transaction as a guest.  Once the customer has completed the information in the purchase transaction, merchants can easily obtain any required details.  Remember time is still an ageless commodity.

Details in the Fine Print

It’s also important to provide visitors with any necessary information clearly visible on the website before customers proceed to check out with their purchase to avoid shopping cart abandonment.   Information such as money back guarantees, exchange and refund policies, shipping and handling fees, privacy policies, applicable state taxes, accepted payment methods and customer support contact information.  By providing the above information posted in conspicuous sections of a website allows customers to make a more informed buying decision before finalizing the transaction.

Pointing the Way

Finally, as a last attempt to prevent shopping cart abandonment, progress indicators that guide customers through the purchase process from adding items to the shopping cart to the final checkout are helpful.   Online merchants should strategically place progress indicators on the top center of checkout pages.  Indicators should be numbered in the order of purchase sequence and highlighted as each step is completed.  Also, customers appreciate the option of being able to return to the previous page without being required to re-enter information.   As a general rule, the entire checkout process shouldn’t exceed three steps to complete the transaction.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/06/24/preventing-e-commerce-shopping-cart-abandonment/feed/ 1 How to Start a Web Hosting Business from Scratchhttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/03/17/how-to-start-a-web-hosting-business-from-scratch/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/03/17/how-to-start-a-web-hosting-business-from-scratch/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:37:40 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=1481 The web hosting industry is at the heart of all e-commerce and online business opportunities, as every website online needs a web server to function. Not only does web hosting provide the tools and resources needed to build online businesses in nearly any industry, it also provides business opportunities in and of itself. By utilizing reseller hosting plans you can start a web hosting business from scratch with minimal effort and investment, and absolutely no expertise or experience. While not all hosting resellers will be successful, by following the tips below you may be able to build a web hosting business from scratch.

Choosing a Reseller Hosting Plan

Your reseller hosting plan will be the service that gives you access to wholesale server resources, which can be split up into plans and allocated amongst your customers as you see fit. Thus, it is important to consider the features and attributes of each plan carefully before purchasing one. As a general rule of thumb, the more comprehensive the hosting plan, the cheaper the server resources will be overall. Just as in any other industry, if you purchase server resources in bulk you receive the greatest discounts and will be able to earn the highest profit margins from your clients. It is also imperative to choose a hosting provider that is known for being reliable, as their reliability will reflect on the reputation of your own hosting business.

Creating Effective Hosting Plans and Building a Professional Website

Fortunately, during the process of selecting a good reseller hosting plan you’ll get a good idea of what hosting clients are looking for when they shop for a web hosting service. Put yourself in the shoes of your clients and begin creating hosting plans that could realistically compete with other web hosts. One of the best ways to do this is to distinguish your plans from other hosts’  by offering additional web-based services, and sizing your plans differently than other hosts. For example, if you are a web developer, programmer, or Internet marketer, you can bundle your site creation and promotion services with your hosting plans to solicit more clients. You can also use the robust site builder tools provided within your reseller hosting account to create professional web hosting websites that advertise your services.

Branding and Advertising Your Hosting Services

Reseller hosting plans also allow you to customize the control panel of your customers’ hosting accounts with the logo of your business. This will help you effectively establish your company’s brand and portray professionalism to your clients by distinguishing yourself from the competition. Reseller hosting plans also include free advertising credits for search engines and social networking sites such as Yahoo, Google, Bing, and Facebook. You can utilize these advertising credits to immediately begin promoting your hosting services to targeted audiences via pay per click advertising, which appears on the sides and above search engine results when related keywords are searched for.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/03/17/how-to-start-a-web-hosting-business-from-scratch/feed/ 0 The Benefits of Using Multiple Domain Hosting for E-Commercehttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/02/25/the-benefits-of-using-multiple-domain-hosting-for-e-commerce/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/02/25/the-benefits-of-using-multiple-domain-hosting-for-e-commerce/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:21:20 +0000 Art http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=1442

The keys to being successful with an online business are diversification, diligence, and persistence. Unfortunately, a single revenue stream is often not enough to create a full-time income, especially if you are depending only one website. Most successful online entrepreneurs continually expand their network of websites by building new sites and entering new niches on a constant basis. Rather than giving up and becoming disheartened when one endeavor does not go your way, you should grab motivation and experience from such occurrences and begin working on a new endeavor. In order to continuously expand your online reach you need to build new websites and have access to your own network of sites.

Diversifying Your Business through Several Websites

In the online world, each website that you own represents a new business opportunity – the ability to penetrate a new niche and begin creating a new revenue stream. With each revenue stream you can significantly increase your monthly and yearly income gradually. Unfortunately, if you operate your entire online business through a single website, you’ll be unable to adequately target multiple markets and optimize your site for keywords that are commonly searched for in search engines. As you continuously explore new niches and business opportunities online, you’ll undoubtedly be registering multiple domains. In fact, the average webmaster registers about 10 domains per year.

Recognizing the Importance of Multiple Domain Hosting

Although the majority of hosting providers offer plans that allow for the hosting of an unlimited amount of domains, it is still important to ensure that your hosting plan includes multiple domain capabilities. It is, however, important to note that although a plan may allow you to host an unlimited amount domains, this does not mean that you have access to an adequate amount of server resources to host more than several hundred domains simultaneously. Each website that you associate with your web hosting account consumes server resources, and therefore places an additional burden on your hosting Web server.

Security and Business Presence

By owning a network of sites you can efficiently build links to your main sites in each niche, and also have smaller websites within the same niche that are designed to funnel traffic to your heavily monetized sites. This can improve conversion rates by allowing you to introduce presell articles and concepts to your site visitors and it can also diversifying your search engine optimization efforts. You will also be able to create more leverage within each industry/niche because you’ll have a significant online presence, which ultimately results in thousands of unique visitors within your control on a daily basis. When new products or services are released in each industry you can take advantage of their popularity instantly using one of your many sites within your network.

If you are planning on selling products or services or accepting payments on your website then you need an SSL certificate. Therefore, it is important to make sure that your web hosting plan includes capability to host a wildcard SSL certificate (at SSL certificate can be used on my website), or you’ll have to purchase multiple web hosting plans in order to gain access to multiple SSL certificates.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/02/25/the-benefits-of-using-multiple-domain-hosting-for-e-commerce/feed/ 0 Web Hosting in Today’s Worldhttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/01/16/web-hosting-today/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/01/16/web-hosting-today/#comments Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:44:14 +0000 Dmitry http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=3703 In the Internet dominated commerce scene of the 21st century, it is a very good exercise to expand your business in the computer sphere as well. For doing so, you need the help of a top web hosting service. This service allows you to have your own space on World Wide Web with the help of a Web Host server. This service allows people using the Internet to visit your website and engage in business activities with you. You can host your own website and include all the features that are required by you, but the major deterrent in this technique is that it is rather very expensive and high technical skills are required to maintain the host server. In the light of this information, many people avail the services of other Web hosts which offer the required web space and the features at lower prices. As there are innumerable hosts trying to vie for customers these days, you have to be very careful in choosing the right service provider. It is highly recommended that you use the services of a reputed web host even though it might be a bit more expensive than a local one.

You must assure that your current business needs a dedicated server or not, as this type of server is expensive and similar work can be done over a shared server as well, which is usually a cheaper option. The up-time average of your web host server must be 99.9% as a lesser rate would be detrimental to your business. You should opt for a service provider which offers a money-back policy in case you decide to pull out of a particular venture. A simple practice to find out the credentials of the web host is by comparing the information given to you in the different forms of media like e-mail, telephone and fax. If there are conflicting statements, it is best to steer away from the company. The bandwidth you require for your website is also of prime importance as going in for a greater bandwidth than you actually require can prove be a simple waste of money. For an average business, a bandwidth between 1 GB to 10 GB will be more than enough. Unlimited data transfer at extremely low prices usually is accompanied with some clauses which we often tend to ignore. So you have to be careful while paying for this feature.

A company providing the best web hosting will offer a 24/7 support for your site and it is a good thing to confirm it at the time of contract signing. Moreover, reading web hosting reviews will also help you in choosing the right provider so you must dedicate some time to it before finalizing your deal. The control panel offered for your site must be simple to use for better visitor convenience. The reputation of the service provider must be carefully checked so that you don’t have to suffer later with a bad deal coming your way.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/01/16/web-hosting-today/feed/ 0 Web Hosting and E-Commercehttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/01/16/web-hosting-ecommerce/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/01/16/web-hosting-ecommerce/#comments Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:08:06 +0000 Dmitry http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=3690 There are a host of opportunities available to anyone interested in having an online business and the first thing they should do is to consider web hosting and e-commerce for their websites. If you are not sure what e-commerce really means, well it is nothing but the act of making sales as well as purchases of goods through the medium of the internet. Thus, if this is what you need to do then you need to check out e-commerce web hosting which will be sure to throw up many different plans that will provide you with good support as far as your online business needs are concerned.

After you have built up your website you will need to make it run so that it brings in increased profits for you and the basic thing you will need is to organize yourself for e-commerce web hosting. This is especially important because the world of the Internet is increasingly becoming faster paced and there are all types of companies engaged in selling and buying online including small as well as large companies. Also, these companies need a lot of flexibility in their operations, and need to be secure and also appreciate great performance as well as reliability from their website and this is a very good reason why the need for e-commerce web hosting has greatly increased in recent times.

Using ecommerce web hosting, you can get the very latest in technology and make it suit the style of your company and it is also helpful in providing solutions for the website as far as its functioning and scale are concerned. The benefits to using ecommerce web hosting are felt by both the buyer and also the seller when they conduct business online and you can find many suitable e-commerce web hosting services. In fact, such services are of great interest to a wide range of people including web developers and most certainly to those who are engaged in business and who need to hone in the latest in commerce that is conducted electronically and this is most noticeable in the fields of finance and also retail selling.

What’s more, most of the websites hosting packages that are available today are pretty affordable and they also come with their fair share of web tools that help considerably in getting the most out of your website. And, with E-Commerce web hosting the online business will certainly flourish much more and you can use it for having wide-ranging catalogues that are stored online and which include all the goods and products that you are interested in selling and which can be searched or are just used for processing credit card sales and purchases that occur in real-time. That is where ecommerce web hosting will prove its worth to online business community. Ecommerce web hosting is thus considered as one of the top web hosting methods and with this new method of web hosting you can grow your online business and prosper and achieve all that you want to as far as online business transactions are concerned.

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]]> http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/01/16/web-hosting-ecommerce/feed/ 0 The Right Solution for Web Hosting is E-Commercehttp://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/01/16/web-hosting-ecommerce-solution/ http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2011/01/16/web-hosting-ecommerce-solution/#comments Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:38:01 +0000 Dmitry http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=3675 There is no need to think of web hosting as something extraordinary and beyond the common thinking man’s comprehension because it is simply not that at all. If you take out some time and devote it to learning what web hosting is all about and then spend some more time and also effort in creating a website you should soon find that a whole new world called the World Wide Web will open for you and provide you with a new experience unlike anything else that you may have experienced before.

However, you need to consider a few things before you spend your hard earned money in buying a domain name and getting some space on the web. To begin with, you must first make a decision and know what you really require from your website and how much detail it should hold. And, to save money you can even check out free resources that are especially useful for a personal website. In any case, when you go out and shop for top web hosting solutions you should first is clear in your mind about the purpose for which you are going to use your web site.

You need to consider whether the web site is meant for driving a business or is it for your own use and what the likely number of visitors to your website is going to be each and every month. Furthermore, there are different types of packages that the different web hosting companies will offer you and they will all have different bandwidth limits, which means the numbers of visitors that will be able to gain access to your site each month, and how much you end up paying the web hosting company will depend on these visitor numbers and a few other factors as well.

Now that E-Commerce has become a reality and it is having a profound influence on our lives and its influence seemingly has no bound, now is the time for a business to have a presence online if it is to prosper. This is where E-Commerce comes into the picture and you will find that the different E-Commerce web hosting packages that are available today have great value in them because with E-Commerce you can greatly increase the amount of money you earn and also can make greater profits. Plus, with E-Commerce you won’t have quite as high overheads as is the case with physical stores and businesses and even in the sphere of customer service you will find a radically new and improved environment. All that you need is to source E-Commerce web hosting packages at greatly discounted prices and you will reap many great benefits from this type of business dealing.

So, before you enter E-Commerce, you will need to register your company, find the best web hosting companies and design as well as promote the website through links and also through database solutions.

The bottom line is that web hosting with an E-Commerce solution that is availed off at discounted rates will prove to be a most secure method for customers and for you to begin your business online which is easy to understand given that the future seems to be going the electronic way and it would indeed be a folly to miss out on this new opportunity.

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