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Old November 16th, 2007 Nov 16, 2007 6:58:57 AM -   #1 (permalink)
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Has anyone used affordablehoster.com? Any pros or cons? I'm considering using this hoster. I'm looking to set up an e-commerce web site.
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When I saw my site mentioned, I had to reply.

I can tell you that I don't have any t-shirt guys hosting with me at this time. Most of my clients have shopping cart sites selling gifts, games, electronics and a few other products like watches, printer cartridges, whatever. No t-shirts, other than my own.

Most are using CubeCart as their carts, which I install for them free with a year's prepayment. You can easily do the install yourself, though through Fantastico.

CubeCart is fairly easy to use with size / price options. Not terribly difficult right in the admin area, but if you have hundreds of items to add at once there is a lady in Australia who has a mod for about $ 20 to make the options get added more quickly.

You can also have OSCommerce or ZenCart installed, plus AgoraCart. Agora does not have a "customer" file, so there is no login or customer history. It does take more to set up, also. You have to go into files, where with the others unless you want to change the look of the template you can do it all from the admin area.

You can read more about me in this post - http://www.t-shirtforums.com/member-...ns/t32593.html and if you check my posts you'll see I've helped one member with a cubecart problem, and am willing to help others.


BTW, you can use anything you want for your site. I'm not selling CubeCart. But, you can be up and selling within hours with it.

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Has anyone used affordablehoster.com? Any pros or cons? I'm considering using this hoster. I'm looking to set up an e-commerce web site.
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Other than Pete being a very helpful member of this site, I can't say that I've heard of them before this.

However, there are 100's of webhosts out there that I've never heard of That doesn't make them bad.

You can also get all types of hosting recommendation in these past threads: http://www.t-shirtforums.com/tags/hosting/
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There is one other alternative I should mention. Here's a link to a site made with a program that is entirely MS Excel based. It's a multi sheet Excel package that is converted to thml within the package and uploaded to a host. Cost of the program/site is $ 29.95. I don't sell it, just use it on occasion.

Several things I should mention about it -

It has limited design options. I'm sure that someone with design experience could do something with it, but my taste is in my mouth and I'm limited to the default options. Frankly, that is the only thing I don't like about it.

In it's favor, there is one exrtra-cost option, that allows easy setup of size/price options. Just get one long line set up and you can "search and replace" item numbers, names, etc. The easiest I know for options.

Also, since the inventory is basically an Excel sheet, it is easy to "copy down", cut and paste, etc. You literally set up your inventory on a spreadsheet, set up how you want the site to look and save it as a website.

Here are a couple of The Mountain Tees site's I've done to give you an idea. Again, these are default templates because I can't do any better, but many of you probably can.

Check out the size/price options for each design. Get the "script" right one time and then just search and replace for all the rest.

susans.mtntees.com

shirtmart.co.uk

bigwills.10001gifts.com


Don't want to do it yourself? Give me an excel file and I'll build it for you.
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