Web Hosting

It is important that strict attention be paid to how your hosting service and your web-based business will work together, including how your chosen hosting service can compliment your web-based business.

Choosing the right web hosting service for your website, you have to keep in mind the following:

Amount of data transfer
Amount of space on disk
Number of email boxes
Operating system running on web-server

Switching hosting services after your website is up and running is a headache. You can avoid this by selecting, from the get-go, a hosting service that provides a full range of hosting packages – some of which you need now and others that you will need in the future.

Avoid web-hosting services that:

Have daily data transfer limits (transfer rate fee should be based on monthly usage not daily).
Hide the fact that they charge a setup fee.
Limit file size to discourage downloads and large graphics.
Pay attention to FTP transfer limits.
Pay attention to server limits on resource use.
Provide no technical support.
Offer no control panel.

High-speed access is obviously the key to a responsive website. Most web-hosting services will charge you a monthly fee based on the amount of traffic your website receive.

Web-hosting services usually assigns a client a defined amount of disk space for “virtual” services on the web hosting server. Again, plan ahead how your website will grow in future: lots of images, sound, animation or applets will need more space.

The hosting service’s reliability has to be 99.9 percent uptime.

Find a web hosting service that supports the server-side language you need to operate your website.

Finally, for an eCommerce website you will need a static IP address.

SSL

SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a protocol which standardizes the way web browsers and web servers communicate with each other using encrypted data.

Digital certificate (authentication certificates or SSL server certificate or Digital ID) are key to providing customer transaction security. A digital certificate is a message sent by one party to another at the beginning of a secure Internet session. The certificate verifies the sender’s identity and vouches for that person’s/ organization’s integrity.

e-Commerce websites need SSL to encrypt data, like credit card numbers (as well other personally identifiable information), which prevents the "bad guys" from stealing your information for malicious intent.

You are who you say you are. You have nothing to hide and you are running a legitimate e-commerce business that you want consumers to trust and feel comfortable doing business with The SSL certificate system exists to help promote the security and integrity of e-commerce for everyone. In an era where phasing scams run rampant and trust is king, a proper SSL certificate may well be your key to e-commerce success.

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