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I am in need of advice. The company I work for is in the process of setting up an enterprise development project for a disability care centre, and along with a regular product catelogue, they also want to set up an e-commerce option. They are now looking at me to deliver, but my web development skills are beginner to intermediate (HTML, CSS, installing Wordpress and phpBB). There is no provision in the startup budget for a professional.

So my question is: can you recommend good hosting for this?

The project will start fairly small (10 to 20 products). As I am no expert, the easier to set up the better. Preferrably not too expensive.
 
depends on the traffic you might get on this site

If its a small store like you say, and not major traffic. Go with your usual shared hosting (afrihost for example has it at R69.month)

If you are going to get lets says 1000+ daily visitors, then consider upgrading to a better host. Either cloud based or a dedicated server.

Dedicated Servers start at about R1300 from hetzner

If its really mission critical stuff - go with Hetzners custom hosting - expact to pay about 2.5k for the server/bandwidth/etc - and another 2k for them to manage it all. (i use this)
 
Some hosts like Gridhost offer eCommerce hosting that includes a store of some kind with a shopping cart and whatnot. It will probably be the easiest option.

However maybe ask them to have a look first. Either with a trial or by looking at other sites that use it. Just in case it's crappy.

Linky: http://www.gridhost.co.za/ecommerce-web-hosting

I'm sure some of the other hosting companies will include the same kind of thing.
 
You should decide on hosting budget based on what sort of income you will be generating from the store. If it is a odd sale here and there then a sub R100 shared package is fine, if however you are planning on generating a larger income then something like Windows Azure/highly available cloud is what you should be looking at.

Nothing hurts an ecommerce store more then downtime. In terms of the actual store, look at something WordPress based for the site and Opencart for the store, that way you can look at credit card payments later on.
 
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