How to pick an e-commerce web host

Advice on picking a reliable web hosting provider has been offered by CNN Money.

According to the news website, the most basic e-commerce sites are able to make use of out-of-the-box software to provide online transaction functionality, although bigger sites have more complicated requirements that may need to be checked with various web hosting companies.

It is vital to choose a web host that is capable of providing security for online payments through SSL/TLS certificates, as well as being able to support the required type of checkout process, CNN Money explained.

"If you want lots of bells and whistles on your site, you'll also want to be sure the host supports technologies including PHP, SQL and CGI," commented CNN Money writer Emily Maltby.

Those starting out in the world of website management for the first time should consider fundamentals such as the reliability of the web host, whether it offers sufficient disk space and whether it has a good customer service department in place, according to a separate CNN Money article published earlier this month.

Written by Dipika Patel