Cheap hosting suggestions for my products.

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Perfect.Cell

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I'm looking for a cheap web hosting solution to host my products. I have about 100 products. I just need something simple and plain that allows me to enter meta tags and description for each page.

The problem is, I keep seeing all these places that are super cheap and offer a generic shopping cart like oscommerce or zencart, but that still leaves me to build the site on my own. I do not have the time or skill to make my own site from scratch. I just want an all in one solution that I can pay for monthly, log in and upload products quick. I hate shopping carts that come in box ie X-Cart. There are 2 great places I tried, americommerce and instantestore, this is exactly the type of thing I'm looking for. But I had to leave those because they are HELLA expensive, 100$US per month for americommerce and 50$US per month for instantestore. That's way too much considering I make 0$ in sales at the moment.

Please please please give me a suggestion. I need something simple and quick. Thank you.
 
I wish I could be more help, but I am not familiar with any hosts that offer eCommerce solutions at a low price. I hope someone else on this forum might know and can help you out.
 
It looks like you are looking for one of those "plug-and-play" operations. Its a hot market, with many players. Never had to dig through it myself though.

But here are a few more:

http://www.easystorehosting.com/ - but its $600/year, so the same $50/month

This hosted solution will also run you for $50/mo (for 100 products):
http://www.volusion.com

I had a friend before who ran a successful jewelry store before based on Yahoo! Store system http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/ - it is $40/mo with a lot of features, including order processing and tracking. This could be your best bet!

This service offers it for free: http://www.1freecart.com/ but they will probably have their ads all over your site. :)

However, those standard shopping carts are not that bad of an idea. Many Cpanel hosting providers will offer "Fantastico" package that allows you to install a shopping cart with 1 click, there is nothing for else for you to do except for entering some general store information.

You can also save a lot more money in the long run as a whole new range of shared hosting providers opens up. This forum's current hosting provider specializes in ecommerce hosting with many plans, and they can probably even help you setup a store (even though the process is really a one-click operation):
http://www.handsonwebhosting.com/hosting/minicommerce/


Being in ecommerce means you have to invest in your business platform in order to sell products. It would be tough to make money with a solution that lacks features, processing power and good customer support.
 
cyberworldhost said:
Give me an email or pm. I can help you I think.
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If you are willing to help this member with an advice, please keep it public as it might help someone else in the future.

If you are willing to help this member setup a solution he is looking for for benefit, keep in mind this is against the HostingDiscussion.com rules.
 
Clap clap :) a very good point. Almost all web host providers have a one click installer, just. Got to find the right one. Best of luck!
 
A one click installer is far from what the OP needs here.
It's unlikely that there is a solution out there for less than what has been quoted when the host is expected to be responsible for complete setuup of the cart.
 
whats the point???

So, you want us to offer help, by doing what? this user has posted a need that my firm can easily fill, what is the difference between me stating this and posting links to a bunch of others that just may be able to help like you clearly did in your post???
 
nexxterra said:
So, you want us to offer help, by doing what? this user has posted a need that my firm can easily fill, what is the difference between me stating this and posting links to a bunch of others that just may be able to help like you clearly did in your post???
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The user is clearly asking for a suggestion/recommendation. If the original poster wanted hosting providers to make him/her offers, he would have posted a request for it in the appropriate marketplace forum, namely the Web Hosting Requests.

If forums like ours would have allowed hosting companies to advertise everywhere without discretion, there would not have been a wealth of structured information accumulated and exchanged on for the benefit of all, and all the information would not have had any worth or validity to it.
 
There is a huge difference between someone asking for recommendations and a host shilling for there own company.

There is a lot more value to a recommendation from someone who has experience with a host than there is in unsolicited offers that of course are biased.
 
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