Hello all,

I am new to this forum but have found it very helpful so far. I have two questions in the hosting and eccommerce areas but didn't see a seperate forum for eccommerce here. I currently host with pair networks (great guys) and I am looking for a second hosting company to split up my range of sites. I need a online shopping cart solution and was wondering what people here would recommend. I looked at Americart which pair uses but would rather pay a one time fee not a per month since I am going to open about 7 online stores at the same time and Americart could get kind of expensive then. I already have a merchant account and use authorizenet as my gateway.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance

Harry

Web Hosts that use CPanel will have Interchange installed. Interchange is a great shopping cart solution.

to be running all 7 stores on the same server then City Shop is one of the best for that kind of setup. You can get it from http://nightmedia.net tell Georg that Monte sent you.

If you are going to be setting up stores on various servers then again City Shop or osCommerce.

Or go with a host that has Cpanel and use Interchange it is built in and ready to install on your account.
I might add also that it depends on how many products you will be selling from each store if over a 1000 go with a MySql store the flat file stores choke after a 1000 items.

Monte Roberts

Thank you both for the suggestions. I will check out both solutions. I have had problems with hosting companies and interchange installations. If it goes down on the server and I can't restart it I was sunk. Do you know if that has improved?

How is MCHost with this service? I know they use Cpanel and I was looking at them as one possibility for my clients accounts.

Thanks again for both of your prompt responses

Harry

I personally use Shop Factory a lot. Also, like Web Genie and some of the others. Everything built in, straight forward, and I own the software so not tied to a single host or hosting platform.

interchange engine goes down then the host can restart it for you, that shoud be part of running a server, even so you would want a responsive host. I have no idea about MChost I am sure if you email them they can answer that for you.

Monte

Monte,

Thanks. I was directing that more to DynastyHost then you. I do really like the looks of CitySHop that you recommend. I am going to email Georg and ask him about some search engine feature customization and I think I may just go with that solution. Thanks again for your great suggestion.

Harry