Before you get into ecommerce market.

With the growing number of internet users, an ecommerce business can be quite profitable these days. If you do it correctly, you can expect to see sales orders almost every minute on daily basis. But, first you have to setup your ecommerce website for the purpose. Here are some steps to consider before you get into the ecommerce market.

1)Hosting platform.

This depends on your opt of ecommerce software. Open source software written in PHP is rather popular because you don't have to pay additional fees for the software or deal with messy scripts and databases. You can get some Linux hosting with Cpanel for such software or choose software written in different programming languages such as ASP.NET or CFM.

2) Reliability of hosting.

Doing some research on currently available hosting company can be beneficial for finding the best ecommerce hosting for your site. This step is important as your site has to stay online all the time. Make sure you don't just go for the cheapest hosting package.

3) Resources.

 An ecommerce site requires lots of resources. Usually, you will need more bandwidth to cope with amount of traffic and extra space for uploading photos of the products. Check with your hosting company’s TOS if "unlimited" means that you will get enough space or bandwidth to support your website.

4) Search engine friendly software.

It's best if you use search engine friendly software. It will help you to get valuable and unpaid traffic by using the product title in the page title with search friendly URLs. So there is no reason why you should leave your potential customers by not choosing search engine friendly software for your site.