Free Ecommerce Web Hosting (Or Rethinking Your Business Model)
Looking for free ecommerce web hosting?
Okay.
Now my second question is... Why?
Why not, you retort?
Well, here are three good reasons why you shouldn't rely on a free web host to set up your online store:
A Real Website
If you want to try to make money online using a
service that allows you to setup a virtual storefront without actually having a
website, you're going to be depriving yourself of all the amenities of having a
real website. Things like a personalized contact page, an 'About Us'
page, a privacy policy page and maybe even a blog can really help to build
credibility when it comes to selling online. It's a jungle out there. If you
want to be a cut above the rest, you can't afford to cut corners.
Downtime is Scary
Free web hosts are not accountable in any way,
shape or form to those who avail themselves of their services. If they have
downtime, you are basically up poop's creek without a paddle. Picture this
scenario: Somebody just finishes making a big purchase and half an hour later
your free web host goes down taking your site down with it. And it stays
down for the next two days (and yes this happens) leaving your client
thinking he just got flimflammed by some kind of online sharky. Hmmmm boy!
That's some good customer relations, eh?
Subdomains Make You Look Like a Pro (NOT)
Unless you actually shell
out some cold hard cash to get yourself a real domain name, you're going to be
stuck with some kind of subdomain when you sign up with a free web host. And if
you do this, you might as well put up a neon sign that says, "I don't believe in
my business enough to spend a few dollars a month for real web hosting". And if
you don't believe in what you're selling then why should anyone else?
DO IT UP RIGHT
Yes that's right. The bottom line is if you can't afford the mere $7-$10 dollars a month it takes to set yourself up with a commercial web hosting service (which should include several installable shopping cart solutions) then perhaps what you really need to do is rethink your business model. By the way, web hosting packages these days are offering up so dang much in the way of disk space, bandwidth, multiple domain hosting and other resources that you can't afford not to pay for web hosting.
Ultimately, free ecommerce web hosting may just turn out to be a free pain in the arse. If you're going to do the internet marketing thing, do it up right and pay the few bucks it takes to get the whole nine yards to create your online presence.
Robert Darrell is the webmaster of ironspider.ca where he provides tutorials covering all aspects of web design including Affordable Website Hosting.
Robert's web host is Lunarpages which can be accessed by this link - http://www.golunarpages.com
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