Dec 29 2008
Ecommerce Hosting Package
Shortly after posting my last post I received an interesting email from one of my regular readers. He said that he has not only used the Boss Cart software, he also has a host provider who provides it as part of his UK Web Hosting. He sent me a link so I checked out this hosting company.
The hosting company is Velnet Web. They offer several packages from basic shared hosting to full Ecommerce eShop UK plan. The ecommerce plan offers many features that I am looking for and included the software that I have decided to use. The plan comes with a full year of hosting and even includes the domain name. It is a ready made set up site ready for me to just plug in my own products.
I love to play around with website designing and set up but it is nice to have a site ready to go when I have the product set and ready. Time is money and anything that can be done for you is both a money and time saver. I was however a little worried about the fact that I would not be able to have some creativity with my own shop. Being that it was all set up by the hosting company.
I did a little research and found that they do set up the sites but they also offer a Free Editable Website. They will customize the original site for you and then you have an admin panel, not much different than Word Press, which allows you to edit the page and add or take away features with ease. There are no programming or special skills needed. In fact, you do not even to know HTML. The page is created by the popular CMS software Joomla.
Velnet offers a great package for anyone to jump into the online commerce world and succeed. As soon as I get the agreement worked out for my products, I am hoping to get my new shop up and running.
I’ve heard that web hosting in the United Kingdom is more expensive than those in the United States, and this seems to be the case as the starter plan only offers 50 MB of space. The real 24/7 technical support is good though, especially if you’re just starting out and have many questions.
@Toronto SEO
What is keeping people from hosting in the US but using a .co.uk address? Just register a domain with a registrar in the UK and host it someplace else if it’s too expensive. Really though, the extra few dollars a month should be worth it for proper service.
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