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After you have developed your e-commerce site, the next important
question you have to answer is where to locate the site. Like
a physical store building, a website store has to have a location--in
the case of a physical building, you need a plot of land.
For a website, the location is a computer connected to the
Internet.
A web hosting company is a company that acts as your
virtual landlord. You rent disk space from a web hosting company,
and the company allows you to store your site at that virtual
location. Partially Sane Web Development is such a company.
By hosting with a web hosting company, you can expect to
have the technical details taken care of for you--technicians
to make sure the computer stays working and online, support
representatives to help guide you through difficulties, and
other services to help with your online business.
Partially Sane offers a competitive hosting package. For
our standard $20/month or $189/year package, you get 50 MB
of free space to store your site, 2 GB free bandwidth (bandwidth
is, effectively, the amount of traffic your site can receive--typically,
one visitor to a site will represent about 1/1000th of 2 GB),
and 20 e-mail boxes, as well as many more features. You can
see more details about our standard hosting package here.
For those of you who would like extra assistance with
your day-to-day site operations, we offer our Webmaster
Hosting package for $45/month or $400/yr. With Webmaster
Hosting, you get all the features of standard
hosting, as well as: two hours a month of our SiteAssist™
service, where we help you work on your site and do
minor tasks (such as adding links or images) for you;
daily link monitoring, where we check to make sure all
of your links are working; and monthly search engine
submission. For more details on Webmaster Hosting,
click here.
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