boxst

Hello

My wife wants to set up a website to sell some products online. I've done this previously (even for a few people on here!) by either writing it from scratch with asp or using OSCommerce. But, well, I'm old and can't be bothered anymore.

Can anyone recommend a cheap hosting solution including catalogue etc..?

Thanks,

Steve

stevo7

i use www.ukhost4u.com
Seem to be a fairly small company, only about 5 people on the support team, but they are good at responding, and fast too.

Offer a whole host of free ecom solutions, including oscommerce and a couple of other big names.

Cheap too, they have a pretty good 3 for 2 year deal.
I've not moved my shop over there yet, but will soon.

hope that helps

Steve

boxst

Thank you, I'll take a look.

Steve

stevo7

I just received an email....

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Discount coupon 'SUM25' at checkout will redeem the discount deal.
You can also use the 25% additional discount to the already discounted products including products with Free Domain names or 3 Years for the Price of 2.
Paul Hughes Managing Director Comments “With this new 25% discount code you can now have a Budget Hosting account with a domain for as little as £14.99 per year!”
"

boxst

Thank you, I have set up an account with them. The control panel is a bit painful (can't create subdomains and some other things) but support is great and very helpful.

I took the 3 for 2 Advanced hosting (on Windows) with the 25% discount.

Steve

stevo7

Morning mate

Did you get the Windows or Linux service?
I've had both and at the time preferred the Window Plesk control panel, but had to change to the Linux one.

Linux Cpanel is OK I thought... You certainly can add Subdomain in the Linux CPanel....
Its on the front page, scroll down to Domains - et viola



Once you create a subdomain, you can access it via FTP thus....
(open your FTP client....)
> Public_html
>You'll see your subdomain.....

I have got....
www.carbongoodies.co.uk
www.images.carbongoodies.co.uk
at the moment




I cant remember how to do it on Windows, but I'm sure it's there...

Steve

boxst

Thank you for your help -- everything is in Plesk but for some strange reason I have to raise a support ticket to get the permissions on the account changed (three so far: Setting up email addresses, subdomains and web hosting for another domain), I'm not quite sure why they don't just set everything up to start with.

At least the support is prompt and helpful.

Steve

stevo7

Yeah, I know what you mean - sometimes some of the restrictions dont make sense.

I've not contacted the helpdesk for months now - once youget it how you like it, it seems to work well, and it stable. Jut takes a little faffing initially.


Did you find the way to add a subdomain in Plesk?