Ecommerce Hosting Service?

If you are only looking for web hosting to get started you could check out BlueHost. I have used them for about 6 years and have never been dissatisfied. Their tech support is fantastic and the user control panel is extremely easy to use and is loaded with features.

Learn more here: http://www.bluehost.com/track/kfawcett/tellmemore?page=tell_me_more.html

If you are looking for some type of service does everything for you? Take at look at some of these:
http://www.corecommerce.com/index.html
http://www.shopify.com/
http://www.volusion.com/

In the long run, going with the hosting is a cheaper option and it will allow you to scale up later on. There are many shopping cart systems out there to use and many of them have thriving communities built around them where you can find designers/developers to help get your site up and running.

eCommerce software that I recommend:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/

If you would like to create more than just an eCommerce site you could use Joomla! and VirtueMart together. RocketTheme.com has a great premade template that combines the two if you wanted to go that route: http://www.rockettheme.com/joomla-templates/mynxx

If you are looking for a free consulation, feel free to call 1-866-232-9265.

There are several software processes that we can include in the hosting service that can save you some time and money. Also, make sure that any service and/ or plans you do go with are PCI / PAdss compliant, or might be forced to resetup your service (next year) all over again. Keith's suggestion about joomla / virtuemart is a good one, and follows those compliance guidelines. For more information about that see:

http://www.blacksun.ca/ecommerce-overview.html

If you need paypal only, BlackSun offers a mini eccomerce plan to get you started (and includes the SSL certificates if you need merchant gateway handoffs on the higher level upgraded ecommerce plans).

Brook,

My company EC Suite, offers full service E-Commerce Solutions, I would be happy to go over the services we provide and options that might suit your growing business. You can review our website at www.ecsuite.com My direct line is 480.682.3273 I look forward to hearing from you and wish you in advance a happy holiday season!

Matt Studenski

Please check out Zingiri at www.zingiri.com. We provide the e-commerce as a service. One of the key things when hosting an ecommerce site is that you want to host in a good neighbourhood. In a mixed shared environment you're always at the mercy of someone spamming and bringing down the server. We only host our solutions on our servers, hence seriously reducing this risk and ensuring you can sleep without worries.

Please check vexxhost.com, we provide a full web hosting service that will fit your needs. Please contact me if you need for a special offer. Thank you

Please check out zingiri.com
We provide ecommerce in a software as a service model.
You can start small and grow as your business grows.

As per Steve's comment, in case you aren't familiar with PCI DSS and PA-DSS, Brooke, these pages should help you understand:

http://www.elementps.com/merchants/pci-dss-requirements/
http://www.elementps.com/software-providers/pa-dss/

The PCI SSC site is also an authoritative resource:
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/index.shtml

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