Starting a Business Info
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Each resource has its own particular strengths... you just need to pick out the one that fits your needs and priorities. For instance, if you are in a hurry CityMax.com may be the one for you, but if you want to set up a merchant account and accept charge card orders... Bizhosting.com may be what you're looking for.

We've done our best to describe each of them to make it easier for you to select the one most likely to meet your needs.

• register.com - as the number 2 domain name site they try harder (with better pricing and service than Network Solutions... the 800 pound guerilla in this market)
• CityMax.com - ideal if you need to get a site up an running right away. They claim to be able to get you up and running in five minutes... that's a stretch, but not that far off the mark. They currently have a program where you first get a 10 day free trial, and that is followed by a 30 day satisfaction guarantee... pretty hard to beat... and their prices are very reasonable.
• Bizhosting.com - your best bet if it's important for you to be able to accept charge card payments, either by phone or through an online shopping cart. They specialize in setting you up with web hosting, a product catalog, an online shopping cart, a merchant account (to accept charge card payments), and tracking site statistics. They make it really easy to roll all this together at extremely reasonable fees... even the charge card processing fees are reasonable.
• Two low cost, stolid web hosting companies for plain vanilla hosting: EasyCGI, LunarPages,
  • There are a number of web hosting companies out there of uneven quality. More than a few maintain anti-customer support cultures. If you make too much noise or are too troublesome... they just drop you and/or jack your fees up... or sometimes they just ignore you and keep billing.
  • These two are as inexpensive as you can find... and do treat their customers reliably and respectfully with low cost hosting and good support: EasyCGI, LunarPages,
• For help in building a web site:
  • eLance - find free lance web developers... most of them are low overhead free lancers who work out of their homes at very reasonable process
  • VirtualXpress - this is a small five man shop whose core competence is setting up shopping sites. They are very reasonably priced and provide a lot of personal attention.