| Piraino Enterprises Answers What is E-Commerce Web
Hosting
The results of our quest to answer the question
E-Commerce Web Hosting is listed below to help you better understand
the meaning and importance of each aspect of E-commerce Web Hosting.
Keep in mind there are 4 four types of web hosting
Co-located Hosting,
Dedicated Hosting,
E-Commerce Hosting, and
Virtual Hosting.
- E-commerce Web Hosting - E-commerce
hosting is typically, a customer who wants a Web site with: domain
name registration assistance, multiple domain names that map to the
registered domain name, an allocation of file storage and directory
setup for the Web site files (HTML and graphic image files), e-mail
addresses, and Web site creation services. Easy for people to
download and you need to capture information that your site visitors
send to you -- like registrations, orders and credit card data -- as
quickly as possible." That means you need a host with bandwidth to
spare.
Choosing Piraino
Enterprises E-Commerce
Hosting
Most small and mid-size online
businesses aren't candidates for hosting their own sites in-house --
the setup costs for server hardware, bandwidth capacity and software
development are beyond the means of most. And once the server is set
up, ongoing maintenance can be challenging and costly.
Fortunately, Piraino Enterprises specializes
in
economical Web Hosting that enables even the smallest
e-business to gain an online presence quickly and inexpensively. But
as an online business, you have a number of special needs that someone
running a personal home page does not. That's why
free Web hosting bundled together
with your basic monthly fee from your ISP, or free home pages through
services like Tripod or Yahoo! are generally poor choices for sites
that generate transactions.
Ten key issues should be
on your checklist as you select your e-commerce host:
1) Bandwidth
"You need your site to be easy for
people to download and you need to capture information that your site visitors
send to you -- like registrations, orders and credit card data -- as
quickly as possible." That means you need a host with bandwidth
to spare.
Piraino Enterprises has all you need and at a
Economical price.
2) Proximity to Backbone
Many hosting companies connect to
larger Internet connectivity providers, running a commercial phone
line "upstream" to the larger company, who in turn might be running a
connection to yet another "upstream" provider. The further
"downstream" your provider is, the more chances there are for things
to go wrong, as your data is handed off with each upstream connection.
Ask potential hosts: "How many hops
are you to the backbone?" A "hop" refers to each server or router
location Internet traffic must travel through before continuing on to
its destination. Ideally, you want a host with few hops -- or whose
machines actually sit on the Internet backbone itself. Piraino
Enterprises E-commerce Hosting is backboned to the Internet. No
"hops" here.
3) Server Setup
Piraino Enterprises E-commerce Hosting Servers
are State of The Art
multi-processor server
machines with
1393.919 MHz speed and
1024 KB cache.
4) Redundancy and
Reliability
As we all know from experience,
nothing ever works right all of the time. A vital measure of a
reliable host is its preparation for the unexpected. Piraino
Enterprises has multi-homed Internet connections. This means
connectivity provided by more than one backbone provider to ensure
maximum reliability.
Web Sites are backed up
daily and you have Web Browser access to them at any time.
5) Disk Space
As a general rule, you won't need
as much as you think. E-commerce hosting packages start at 750MB of hard
disk space -- enough for 1000 typical Web pages, and we can easily increase your disk
allocation.
6) Site Creation and
Commerce Tools
Piraino Enterprises
incorporates easy-to-use software for building online catalogs. This
will enable you to maintain your storefront without the need of an
outside developer. Some of the most widespread and easy-to-use
packages are:
· Ecommerce Templates
· Store Front
7) Security
The current standard for the
security of online transactions is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
encryption. This protocol encrypts the transaction data as it passes
over the Internet. However, a digital certificate is needed to verify
the merchant's identity. Piraino Enterprises can supply and
install the SSL certificate for you at a very low cost.
8) Payment Processing
To accept credit cards online, you
will need to acquire the service of a payment processor. A payment
processing service handles credit card transactions between a Web
business and merchant account in real time. Your payment processor
choice will depend on which shopping cart solution you choose, since
most have at least one payment processing component built-in. Two of
the most popular payment processors are:
· 2CheckOut
· Authorize net
Also check with your merchant bank,
as it may have relationships with one or more of the above processors.
Important: You will need to apply for a merchant account on your own,
as any business accepting credit cards must. These companies will help
you use your merchant account for your site, but they are not banks,
and cannot offer accounts themselves.
9) Back-End Integration
Many site owners will want to feed
data from their Web sites directly to their existing accounting,
inventory and consumer database systems. Piraino Enterprises
will assist with the integration. While you might not consider
this an important issue as you start up your site, if you succeed in
building a business online, integration of your systems will become a
significant issue, Piraino Enterprises scalability and service
is second to none.
10) Cost
Last, but certainly not least, is
the cost of getting started and maintaining your online presence. Many
smaller site owners receive excellent service from their hosts for as
little at $100 per month. But the more success you have, the more
support you'll need. Large companies often pay their hosts as much as
six figures per month. How much will you have to pay?
Piraino Enterprises
E-commerce Hosting Packages
start at $40.00
If you don't already have your
domain name registered, you can register it at
StealaDomainName.com
for only $8.00 (a Division of Piraino Enterprises) or we
will register it for you.
Software licenses for E-commerce
catalog applications range from $150 at the low end, and can cost many
times that if you need customization, or serve a very large number of
customers.
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