Dataquestdigital.com.au -
Providing Web Hosting powerful, secure and affordable in Australia. Australian
VPS and E-commerce hosting and based web companies.
Besides the requirements of standard web hosting plans, Web
hosting for e-commerce operation needs a shopping cart that supports online
catalog and online payment processing.
Standard hosting plans varies in terms of programming
languages, operating systems and server performance. The commonly used web
development languages include PHP, ASP, JSP and PERL. The hosting plans that
support those programming languages are referred as PHP Web hosting, ASP Web
hosting, JSP Web hosting or PERL Web hosting.
Once you've picked up the programming language(s) for your
Web development, you still have freedom to choose the operating system that
hosts your Websites. Besides ASP which works only on Microsoft Windows, PHP,
JSP and PERL work on Windows, Unix and Linux. Hosting plans that support
particular operating systems are referred as Window Hosting, Unix Hosting or
Linux hosting. When webmasters are talking about Web servers, they're most
interested in the server performance - Managed Web Hosting, Shared Hosting,
Dedicated Servers, or Virtual Private Servers (VPS). Shared hosting is the
cheapest plan, and you can host as many sites as you like with a Reseller
Hosting option. VPS costs around $50 a month, and Dedicated Server plan will
cost from $50 - $100 or more a month dependent on storage space and bandwidth
of the hosting plan.
Evaluation of e-commerce web hosting plans
involves investigation of needed functionality and price comparison of each
plan. The comparison of functionality is straight forward, but the comparison
of cost for different e-commerce hosting solutions is little bit tricky.
Different hosting plans may have different free structures. The cost of each
hosting plan often varies on transaction volume. EBay Stores, Yahoo! Store and
Microsoft bCentral are the most popular turn-key commerce solutions for small
businesses that want to setup online stores easily and fast.
When comparing functionality, there're many questions to
ask: 1) whether a shopping cart accepts online check or eCheck beside support
on online credit card and paypal for payment options; 2) whether there's a
limit on the number of products and categories that you can setup; 3) whether it
automatically sends out an email notification once an order is placed
successfully.
When looking at the cost of commerce operation, you'll need
to ask questions about 1) what's the basic monthly subscription fee; 2) whether
there's a setup fee for a new online store; 3) whether you have to pay for the
addition of new items to the product catalog; 4) how much it charges for each
transaction. High volume sites may prefer the plans that charge a higher
monthly-fee but a lower fee on each transaction, while low volume sites work
better with hosting plans that charge zero or low monthly fee and initial setup
fees but a slightly higher fee on each transaction.
Bruce Zhang has over 10 years of experience in web
development and managing web servers. He currently manages dozens of websites
using ASP Web Hosting, Budget Hosting, Reseller Hosting, eCommerce Hosting,
FrontPage Web Hosting for web hosting needs. Site http://dataquestdigital.com.au/
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