If you have decided to launch a small, medium or a large ecommerce website to sell products or services and plan to accept online forms of payment on your ecommerce business website then you will need to have a reliable ecommerce business web hosting service on your side.

There is a certain difference between a regular hosting plan and a specialized ecommerce business web hosting plan: For accepting online payments for selling things online (e.g. selling ebooks, software or physical items like handicrafts, used items and electronics etc.) you will need to buy a secure SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificate along with a dedicated IP address to ensure the security and privacy of your online customers’ financial and personal data. Ecommerce business web hosting service providers offer both of these services and a select few web hosts also offer free online shopping cart for your Ecommerce business website. Such online shopping cart can be installed from your web hosting control panel easily. In our view, the best ecommerce business web hosting provider with regards to performance, features and reliability is www.hostgator.com. This Ecommerce web host also offers full 45 days money back guarantee on its shared ecommerce hosting plans so you need not to worry about anything as you can always get your money back if you do not like their service (which is highly unlikely). Our own website (business-web-hosting.org) is conveniently hosted on www.hostgator.com and we are personally very happy with their service and feature rich web hosting plans.

Please also note that other two web hosts mentioned on our homepage at top two positions (i.e. FatCow and iPage) are not full fledged Ecommerce business hosts as they do not offer dediacted IP addresses with their hosting plans. That is the reason they are a bit cheaper than HostGator. Since ecommerce business hosting is a bit more expensive than regular web hosting services, so you should only buy it if you are going to use it for launching an ecommerce business website to sell products and/or services.