What is e-commerce Web hosting?

E-Commerce Web hosting adds an e-commerce application to a Web hosting package, which is what allows you to have a store on the Internet.

What is a Web Host?

To have a Web site or store on the Internet you first need to have a Web server. Unfortunately, owning a Web server can be very costly and requires technical expertise that most businesses don't have. This is where Web hosts come in. Web hosting companies provide the equipment and other technical resources that you need without the headaches that come when you have to do it yourself.

Think of a Web host as the landlord of building. A landlord rents out storefronts to various businesses. Each business decorates and runs their store differently, and doesn't worry about the maintenance of the building. In a similar way a Web host rents out space on a Web server - or entire Web servers - to various businesses. Each business builds its own Web store and never has to worry about the maintenance of the Web server.

In other words, the Web host provides the place on the Internet where your Web store lives. It's a lot cheaper than buying your own server, and you don't have to hire the technical staff to take care of it.

What is an e-commerce application?

An e-commerce application is software that makes it easy for you to build and operate a Web store. Online retail giants such as Amazon.com spend lots of money and hire large numbers of programmers to build and maintain their site, but our e-commerce applications let you do it from the comfort of your own home or office without any programming!

The e-commerce application is server software, which means that it is installed and runs on the Verio server - you don't have to install anything on your PC (except for a PGP key in certain cases). You access it with your Web browser, and you simply click buttons and fill out forms to build your store. You can check orders and make changes to your store from any computer that has a connection to the Internet. It's easy to learn and easy to use, so you can focus on running your store instead of learning a program.