I have been operating an electronics online store. I started with a shared hosting plan and I am still operating on that. Now I have done some research about eCommerce hosting and I feel like this could be the right solution for my online store. With increasing customers, the bandwidth and web space required by my online store is also increasing and my current web hosting plan does not meet the requirements. I would like to switch to a better and improvised hosting plan, could you please suggest which hosting plan is beneficial for my website?
Good to know !
You can upgrade low end shared hosting plans to higher valued VPS,Cloud or can even consider dedicated server for excellent hosting environment. It all depends on your resource requirements and budget !
You can also opt for an eCommerce hosting plan for your online store as it provides with shopping cart software and support for payment gateways. If you could elaborate on the web hosting configurations that you are looking for, then I will be able to suggest you with the most appropriate hosting plan for your online store.
If you are satisfied with your current web host services so I would recommend you to please ask him to provide a solution for the same as your customers are increasing and current web host plan is not catering to my requirements. I understand he might take out some way in a shared hosting plan as to the best of my knowledge very large business have been running also on shared hosting plan.
If you come up with eCommerce hosting, I understand that at beginning you might face some problems in regularizing your business activities and your clients may be suffered which you would not ever want so my recommendations with you to ask your current web host provider for the solution of your issue first then to consider any other alternate solutions for your business.
If you are just starting a new business, you may consider PayPal. The only reason why I recommend it, because there is no entry fee, the prices are not a killer, and does not require the end of the SSL.