[vox] hosting and e commerce

[timriley at appahost.com]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [vox] hosting and e commerce
> From: Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> Date: Mon, August 16, 2010 11:33 am
> To: vox at lists.lugod.org
> 
> 
> On 08/16/2010 09:26 AM, jimbo wrote:
> > Greetings Lugod members:
> > 
> > I just received my business license and now want to have my own piece of the internet real estate.
> > 
> > Does anybody have any preference as to a web hosting company?  I am going to start off very small, almost microscopic so I don't need a lot of options.
> > 

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> 
> Look for a host that offers out of the box e-cart, or e-shopping
> services and already has the infrastructure setup to take payment
> information securely.
> 
> There are actually quite a few out there running open source cart
> applications for a reasonable price.
> Things like opencart, zencart, magento, oscommerce.... (there's at least
> 8 decent options last time I looked)

Could you expand on this? For example: opencart is software, yet you
seem
to know of a hosting company that has it available without having to
install it.

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