Published on May 12, 2012 Business Start up : Does your shop software have hosting?
Setting up your own hosting for your shopping cart might seem like a good idea, but it can end up costing you more than you expected – through maintenance costs or staff.
This is because maintaining a secure shopping cart hosting environment is more complex and time consuming than maintaining a regular secure hosting environment. Strict standards must be met.
A hosted ecommerce solution which offers good performance, strong security and around the clock security/maintenance takes hosting out of the equation for you as a business owner and gives you the peace-of-mind to carry on with the business of making money online. Even if you have the skills to manage the hosting yourself, your time may be better spent gathering leads, promoting your business, loading your products, writing descriptions and implementing the recommendations of your Search Engine Marketing reports. Focus on the things that can make you the most money and you will have the time and the right environment to make money.
Ozcart is a hosted shopping cart solution which means you pay for your initial design and a monthly fee, which covers:
- High performance hosting in a world-class data centre
- Data Backups – daily by the server
- The web server physically held in a Category-5 hurricane-proof building with fire protection and backup power
- Configuration of the web server to meet the tough security standards set out by the credit card payment industry (PCI) – Visa and MasterCard are the two biggest members
- Quarterly server auditing by the authenticated security company Comodo
- Multi-processor web servers (with muti-processor, multi-core Intel Xeon processors) with 8mb minimum on all servers
- Generous disk space and monthly bandwidth allowances for customers (which have just got even better)
- Data compression and performance web server modules installed for better performance
- Server optimised for Ozcart webstores
- SSL Certificates free for the first 12 months and a competitive renewal price of $69 per annum thereafter.
And of course, Ozcart websites also include custom web design as part of the package – giving you colour and graphics customisation that suits your brand.
Check carefully with your provider what your hosting environment will be like before choosing your shopping cart service and package. A great cart that is too slow to run or too insecure for your customers to use, is less effective than a brand-based website with no shopping facility on it at all.
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