Debate: Hosted Shopping Carts Perfect for Entrepreneurs
1ShoppingCart is a hosted shopping cart with thousands of small business customers. Michael Valiant, 1ShoppingCart’s product management and marketing specialist, offers his views on hosted cart solutions.
PeC: Why should an ecommerce business consider a hosted shopping cart, versus purchasing a one-time cart license?
Valiant: A hosted solution ensures quick implementation and turn around, inclusive security, 24/7 monitoring, no investment in infrastructure, full and continued support, regular automatic and free software upgrades, a maintenance free environment, easy data management accessible from anywhere in the world and a generally more robust system.
Hosted solutions are responsible for the entire infrastructure, as well as maintaining the safe and smooth operation of merchant?s data and order processing. It’s fully prepared to deal with any emergency situations that may occur with its merchants’ businesses online.
A hosted solution is perfect for most…
Debate: Licensed Carts Offer Flexibility and Portability
ProductCart is a licensed shopping cart used by thousands of ecommerce merchants. We asked its CEO, Massimo Arrigoni, whether licensed shopping-cart software is better for smaller businesses than hosted cart solutions.
PeC: Why should an ecommerce business consider a licensed shopping cart, versus a hosted cart?
Arrigoni: Flexibility, portability, and cost. In many cases a licensed shopping cart allows you to modify the system to better meet your needs, which gives you tremendous flexibility. Flexibility not only to alter an existing feature to address a specific scenario, but also to add new functionality over time or integrate third-party solutions as your business grows. A licensed shopping cart is also portable: You choose where to host it and can bring it with you if you change your web hosting company. On the cost side, a shopping cart is normally a medium-term investment (at least 2-3 years using the same solution): Multiply the monthly fee of a hosted solution…
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Web Hosting Companies: Sources To Help You Choose
When it comes to selecting a web host, there?s a lot to choose from. It?s possible your Internet Service Provider (ISP) may have its own web hosting capabilities, and it?s not a bad place to start. However, more than likely you?ll need an independent host that can specifically address your own unique needs, such as database requirements, storage (hard-drive) space and bandwidth demands.
?There are literally thousands of options, so making that decision, which is a very important decision, can be challenging,? said Dane Jasper, CEO of the web hosting company Sonic.net. ?I think that shopping around for the features and a price that are going to satisfy the needs of your website, number one, and that features question is an important one. And is the website going to require a Linux host or a Windows host? That’s a very fundamental question.?
Jasper said other key questions to address during a web host search include potential database requirements and how…
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