A brief abstract on e-commerce
As stated above when you conduct the whole business procedure of buying and selling virtually, you are being an extract execution in the e-commerce market.
Today there are multiple businesses that are being executed online. You are able to buy from a seller in USA just sitting at your home in a city is India. The road along the ocean and the vast borders is no more a restriction in business terminology.
Before, we move onto the type of requirements to set -up your hassle free e-commerce site, it is very important to understand the basics of business prosecution for a rich understanding of needs.
Modes of E-Commerce
There are typically four scopes of ecommerce business on which it can work:
B2B
There could be a manufacture selling to another manufacture. In real life, you can relate it like a wholesaler selling to a retailer. The point is that both of the operators are buying to ultimately sell it to the consumers at the rate of their benefits. When conducted online, this is called a business to business e-commerce site.
B2C
This is exactly what Amazon is doing, making the seller meet the buyer directly without intermediates. When the process of buying and selling is conducted between a seller and a buyer via internet, it is a business to consumer e-commerce trade.
C2B
Yes, a little twisted but this also exists. There are consumers putting up a certain requirement of product or services on the internet. This in turn leads to a bid between the number of seller ready to offer the deal at a certain price and convenience. This is a consumer to business e-commerce platform.
C2C
There are many ecommerce-sites where the consumers are selling to another consumer. A relevant example could be OLX, Meesho and Quikr.
These are the various forms of business scopes on an e-commerce platform. The reason why we have elaborated this is because we would be using these terms quite frequently when we discuss an appropriate set-up for you.
If you are the one who is thinking of starting an e-commerce business, you could be doing it on atleast one of the scopes.
How important is the understanding of a Web Hosting Plan?
While you require physical allotments like space, equipments and labor while conducting a real-time business in a real-time world, you need a virtual space and the required virtual equipments to set-up your online business.
This is when you need a Web Hosting Plan. All the e-commerce sites like Amazon, Flipkart, e-bay and others have a web space set-up according to their business requirements.
A very important point to note is that not all these sites needs to take-up the same material. It has to differ according to you needs. There are a lot of factors which will determine your need.
This blog is all about making you familiar with the web hosting rules, types and uses. Remember, the best material could be a wrong choice for you.
Let’s see it separately:
Traffic on your website
This is one of the very important factors while considering a web-hosting plan. You have to take a note of the number of visitors visiting your site.
It has to do a lot with the size of your business. If you start small, completely new in the market and you aren’t expecting traffic more than 2000 per day, you could choose a shared hosting plan. A shared hosting plan is better for service purpose. Like, if you are going to start your blogging journey or setting-up a freelance portfolio and helping people with written solutions on the web.
If you already have a market which is heavily built and you know that a virtual set-up will experience the same traffic, you can go for a VPS hosting which can accommodate your size properly.
If you end up selecting a wrong server for your Web Hosting, you could either suffer website crash or wastage of the space and you don’t want either of it.
So, look out for the correct estimation of you current market size and the make a relevant choice.
NO! NO! to Downtime
A Web Hosting Plan that does not offer you a good uptime cannot be considered.
Website down-time could result is about 450 USD loss per second. Suppose a large gathering of customer scrolls through the website at 7 and your web-site crashes at that time. This is not only going to give you a current loss but also drive your market away from you on grounds of poor connectivity and increased attraction for another service provider. Growth of your business does not only depend on the increasing number of customers and clients but also keeping intact all the previous ones.
Do not approach any Web Hosting service provider who offers an uptime of less than 99.9%. Further, you also need to check on the claims through research.
Elasticity of your business
Suppose you sell woolen clothes online. You will not experience a huge traffic all through the year except winters. During the later part of the year, you will get much more traffic and opportunity for sales. People will buy woolen in winters only except for some who are going to vacation in monsoon.
Overall, you don’t need something more spacious during the major portion of your timeline but then you need a good space for the winter months. In that case, your Hosting Plan needs to be elastic, so that it can fit all sizes.
For this purpose you could choose a cloud hosting which is more elastic and perfect to suit your occasional demands.
Budget of your business in relativity of the size
Price is a very important factor. This is directly proportional to the size of your business. A small scale business cannot invest on things like dedicated hosting. A large-scale business operation cannot run on a shared hosting plan.
Invest according to the size of your business. If you start really slow, from 0, you can go for cheaper options and as you grow you can upgrade the space, type and quality.
There has to be a proper budget planning for a Web Server in your main budget list. Make sure you figure it right.
Let’s take a brief on each type of server and see if that suits your need:
Shared Hosting (A Shared Server)
Definition:
When one server is a platform for multiple domain hosting and every resource is being shared by the multiple domains, it is called a shared hosting platform.
Traffic accessible: Up to 2000 per day.
Bandwidth: Unmetered but has to be used judiciously (1 to 2 GB per day)
Ideal for: Bloggers, freelancers, startup-ups with low investments.
Reseller Hosting (An e-commerce in itself)
A reseller hosting is the practice of buying shared hosting in bulk amount to again sell it in the market at a probable profit rate when the hosting management lies in the hands of the Web Host Provider and the ownership rests with the reseller hosting provider.
It is more like a B2B e-commerce in the process of Hosting provider and buyers.
Ideal for: Someone who wants to start a business with low investment, Web developing trainer or Web designing trainer.
VPS
VPS stands for Virtual Private Server.
When you buy a certain amount of space, storage and features that is dedicated in your service but the same provider is shared by others as well.
Traffic accessible: 10000-15000 rare visitors a day
Bandwidth: Approx100Mbit/s
Ideal for: SaaS providers, coders, companies experiencing growth in service, gamers and anyone in need of a good back-up plan to satisfy the business needs.
Dedicated Server
Definition:
When you buy the whole server for your personalized use and limit accessibility to anyone else for your Web hosting Service, the server is called dedicated server.
Traffic accessible: More than 500000 visitors per day.
Bandwidth: Depends on the port size for unmetered bandwidth. Usually 10 TB is enough for the data transfer in companies using dedicated server but with more requirement the port size can be increased.
Ideal for: Business experiencing immense traffic in a day and have out-grown the VPS server, ecommerce apps with million downloads in a day and likewise.
Could Servers
A server that runs on virtual grounds instead of physical ones, accessible in remote environment, performing and functioning on independent units, is a cloud server.
Traffic: Cloud servers are elastic and resistant to immediate growth in traffic as the server would not crash.
Ideal for: E-Commerce businesses which experience occasional bulk in traffic, otherwise remaining constant.
Other important things to look for in Web Hosting Services:
Security:
Security provision is very important factor to look up to while you are buying any kind of server. While high-end products like dedicated server have better secured facilities, you should look out for the best in your range. Ask for an SSL certificated while buying shared hosting, look for cPanel backups, if possible get malware protection and vice-versa.
Operating System
While there are multiple operating systems in the market, you have to look out for something that is more reliable, customizable and user-friendly.
You can get a windows based operating system as your system software for your web-hosting plans. Linux could be one best option in terms of affordability, facilities and customization.
Customer Support
Your Service provider should be supportive, understanding and ready-to-listen. It should be flexible to change your needs as per your market without hassle and hindrance.
Your Host should have good connectivity for your problematic times in terms of the service and immediate to resolve it.
Why choose VNET as your Web Host Provider?
We at VNET have all suitable equipments and services to satire your needs. We facilitate Shared Hosting, Reseller hosting, VPS, Dedicated server and Cloud as well.
We understand your need and provide you with suitable remedies for your problems.
In terms of services we facilitate:
Secured Web Hosting
Linux, Windows and a variety of Operating System as per your requirement
Reliability in performance and speed
99.9% Up-time
Cpanel, Plesk panel and other backups
Flexible according to the needs
Speedy performance in services
Durability of infrastructure
24*7 open service with multi-handling and multi-lingual support.
Conclusion
The hustle for a good ecommerce set up is real and the prejudice cannot be denied.
Wherever you are, however you are starting, big or small, more or less, we appreciate your courage and effort. We would love to be a part of your remarkable journey from the beginning, in the midst or towards the end.
Your performance, availability and time on the web matters while you construct your e-business through it. To be able to reach out undefining all boundaries and borders is a possibility and truth of today.
We hope that wherever you are on your e-commerce journey, you get successive swings of glitters in your career.
For any kind of Web Hosting Services, you can contact our team and seal the best deals. We extend our support and vow to wait for you till eternity.