So now we carry on with Part Two of our guide to different kinds of Web Hosting, kindly illustrated by the adventures of a man called Dave*.
In the last part, Dave has had experience with Free and Shared Hosting, but he’s now looking at getting advanced Web Hosting to offer him greater control and performance from his eCommerce store. Below are several of the options available to Dave. Continue reading
Choosing the right Web Hosting package for you can be a bewildering task. With so many packages, prices, terms, conditions, companies and countries vying for your business, it’s important that you understand what you need, so you can choose a company who can give you what you want.
So here’s a list of the major types of Web Hosting available on the market – what they are, and what they’re suitable for. And to make it a bit easier, we’ll follow the career of Dave*, a budding web entrepreneur making his first forays into the world of Web Hosting. Continue reading
This is the first part of what will be a series of guides on using the new eCommerce system, Magento. The best place to start is always the beginning, so the initial subject will be Installing Magento in your web space. This guide will include the Installation Guide, a brief Troubleshooting Section, and finally some Useful Links Continue reading
While comparing our new PHP5 Magento Hosting we found this speed test site. Although UK based Magento eCommerce Hosts are, for the moment, few in number, we thought we would create a Spreadsheet Tool to use the Internet Supervision speed test to compare our speed against other Hosting providers. The calculator allows you to run speed tests on a Web Hosts Demo Magento site (most Hosts have an example Hosted Magento site, for examples see the Magento forums) and compare them against each other. Continue reading
There can be two very different schools of thought when something new comes out. On one side, you have the people who have to have the latest as soon as it arrives, and will happily be out with the old in favour of the new. Then you have their opposites, the people who cling tenaciously to the tried and tested, refusing to move on whilst clinging to an ‘if it’s not broken, don’t fix it’ mentality. Of course many of us meander somewhere in the middle, and it often takes a major event or Continue reading
As anyone over the age of twelve will tell you, things just aren’t what they used to be. What can you get for a penny these days? You don’t even get penny sweets in the shops anymore. This is a cheap (ah-hah) way of introducing our new special offer which, quite frankly, is just too darn good to be true. Continue reading
