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ECommerce Site Hosting companies: Verio

If you should decide not to use an Internet Mall store for your online business, that means you've decided to build your site yourself. Many people choose to do this. Although it's the longer and more complicated route, it gives you greater control over the look and feel of your Web Site. Those who have experience in creating Web Pages often decide that this is the best way for them to go.

Web Hosting Companies that provide these services are a dime a dozen. There are thousands of them out there. They all want your business, and will tell you whatever they think you want to hear in order to get it.

Some of them are real, and some of them want you to think they're real, when in fact they are just re-sellers for other Hosting companies. There are lots of ways that one-man companies, and even companies that don’t actually own Web Servers at all can make it look like they are the best professional solution to your needs. You need to be careful when choosing a Web Hosting Company.

Most small  Web Hosting Companies just don’t have the money or the Human Resources to deal with all of the issues that their kind of business requires.  A good Web Hosting Company:

• Has to have the financial strength to purchase quality equipment. There are different levels of quality and performance in Computer systems, just like anything else.

• Has to be there to answer your Tech Support questions when YOU need them, even if it’s the middle of the weekend, or a Holiday. That means a serious investment in people. A good Web Hosting Company will have live Tech Support at least 12 hours a day, including reduced hours on weekends.

• Has to be extremely knowledgeable about what they do. These people are playing in the Land of Very Serious Technology, remember. Nothing there is as it seems. You don’t want to put your business in the hands of a Hosting Company that only knows bits and pieces of the complicated technology involved in Web Site Hosting.

Now, don’t get us wrong; we're all for supporting small business. There are many small businesses on the Internet that are fantastic resources, and will work very well for you. Web Hosting is different, though. It’s a highly technical process that must keep your business visible to the world twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Because it’s so technical, there are a lot of things that can go wrong with it.

When your small business absolutely relies on their small business for it’s survival, you’ve got to decide if supporting a small Hosting Company is worth the risk of losing your shot at success on the Internet. Especially since, depending on your financial situation, this may be your only shot. If your site “goes down” (has technical problems that take it off the Internet), you lose sales. Believe it; we’ve been there. If it stays down for any serious length of time, you could lose your business altogether.

Chris Malta has been through a tremendous number of different Web Hosting companies over the past decade, and has seen the Good, the Bad, and certainly the Ugly!

The Web Hosting company that has been the best we have found is Verio. They have all of the qualifications that we have found to be important in this are, and we recommend them highly. They have a variety of ECommerce Hosting packages available.

In fact, if you like, you can contact a Verio Rep that we have worked with in the past, who has given us great service:

Greg Gonzalez

NTT/Verio

1-877-273-3190 Ext. 4672

ggonzalez@Verio.net

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