Hello

I need some help with setting my hosting website up

can someone please answer my questions ?

Is there something that i can install to accept credit cards and all major payment methods ?
How can i integrate a shopping cart into my site?
What is the best way of getting customers ?Sorry if this is posted in wrong section or is not allowed
if it is please delete this thread

Thanks
Dan

Thread moved to Running a Web Hosting Business.

Usually something like 2checkout for credit cards, and modernbill for billing & ordering will speak with eachother.

Thread moved to Running a Web Hosting Business.
Thanks :D

Usually something like 2checkout for credit cards, and modernbill for billing & ordering will speak with eachother.
Thanks for the info

I would reccomend WHMCS if your going to use PayPal 2CO or any other type of payment proccessor as they talk to each other also it talks to WHM and its the cheapest available and the best around

I would get a catchyname

and either a VPS or Dedicated to start out with

could really do with something free, :lol:

but thanks for the replies

I am afraid if you want to start in hosting properly, you are going to have to spend some $$$ or your never even compete with the small hosts ,let alone the big hosts, We are talking Minimum of $200 a month on a dedicated (you could start on a $20 reseller , see resellerzoom) $15 a month on billing(Whmautopilot is newbie friendly,well kinda) and then say $30 a month on support (Kayako etc). You should budget around $300 a month if going for a dedicated or $100 on a reseller. Then you would be in a good starting position.

If you don't have the cash to at least do $100 a month, don't start getting into hosting,it won't be worth your time Imo.

Hope that helps.

You can accept payments by bank transfer or credit cards via Paypal.com, Moneybookers.com, 2checkout.com, Stormpay.com, Worldpay.com... etc.

If you designed your site then you can receive orders by using a whois and a form mailer script at starting. Or you can use a professional hosting billing software like Modernbill, WHMAutopilot, Clientexec, WHMCS, phpCOIN(it's free)... etc.

Customers can find your site by search engines(like Google) or hosting directories/forums. You can give your anvertise to these sites. Good luck.

Like people say

Youve got to speculate to accumulate

Invest some money and it will definetly pay off

One big nono is PHPCoin do not use it it will deter customers as its a free piece of billing software that has minimal features and breaks quite easy and doesnt work as it should

i dont expect everything to come to me for free, ive got the support sorted, and ive got the reseller sorted for the year, its just the billing issue and accepting major payments

Thanks for all your help, every reply has made sense and given me ideas so i thank you for posting :agree: :cool: ;)

Thanks alot everyone
dan