Web-hosting Services

There are a multitude of web-hosting services (a third party that sells you space on its web servers) available. A majority of small e-commerce businesses will contract with a web-hosting service rather than use an in-house server.

Your web-hosting decision is one of the most important decisions you make when starting an e-commerce business. That is because a good web-hosting service provides a place where your site can reside and operate quietly and efficiently in the background. But, if you don’t do your research and perform proper due diligence, you might choose the wrong hosting service. The trick is to find the right match between what your e-commerce site needs and what the web-hosting service offers.

In your quest for the right hosting service, start with the basics — how good, how reliable, and how industrial-strength is your potential host’s connection to the Internet? Then check out what other services are offered to enable your e-commerce business to have more functionality.

As you shall learn, there are a multitude of web-hosting business models and options available to an e-commerce business. Because there are so many hosting choices, you must decide what your own web-hosting requirements are before venturing forth. This allows you to narrow your shopping down to just a few hundred rather than thousands of choices. Let’s first look at the various web-hosting models. Understanding the different business models under which web-hosting services operate makes it easier to choose the best service for your e-commerce site.