Help with hosting - ecommerce suggestions

[airguy]

I agree with what others have posted it would be a great addition to have a hosting forum. However I also believe it would quickly become spam central on WPW.

Right now we are on Yahoo shopping, or whatever they are calling it this week, their hosting "solution" is becoming more of a P in the B every day.

I want to try oscommerce, or another program and am open to recommendations. my problem is every time I think I have found a good host I can find more bad things said about them than good. They don't need to be free but until I can get some money flowing from my efforts I don't want to break the bank either. I don't mind starting off with a cheap host and then, even if I have to reduce a bunch of the work, moving it to a more stable and robust hosting company.

thanks for any help and ideas

[jestep]

Are you looking for a general website hosting, or more of an ecommerce package?

[airguy]

Yes ecommerce, I want to try something other than yahoo shopping.

[jestep]

I have heard of a lot of good result from lunarpages http://www.lunarpages.com/, but I've never used them myself. It has come highly reccommended to me a few times.

[Corey Bryant]

We refer a lot of people over to http://oscommerce.snappyserver.com/ if they want a PHP / oscommerce solution. They are great over there.

if you want an ASP cart, check out http://www.spidersales.com or http://www.vpasp.com

I also have a small ASP cart that is linked to the Paypal & LinkPoint gateways that I can give you. Contact me if you want to review that

[cyanide]

I agree with what others have posted it would be a great addition to have a hosting forum. However I also believe it would quickly become spam central on WPW.

Indeed. Spam-central for sure...

I don't mind starting off with a cheap host and then, even if I have to reduce a bunch of the work, moving it to a more stable and robust hosting company.

I would try to avoid the ultra cheap hosts... for obvious reasons, I think..
I would also recommend trying to find a permanent host. Once you have a program like Oscommerce installed (database-driven)... It can be a real pain in the neck to move hosts.