Build and host a website

[rosieholly]

Hi can any one suggest a good company to build and host a website on a budget, where i will be able to update it and add new products myself. It will need to be an online shop. Thanks

 

[Flatspin]

Hi can any one suggest a good company to build and host a website on a budget, where i will be able to update it and add new products myself. It will need to be an online shop. Thanks

I am not sure if anyone can ever build an ecommerce website on a budget, because there are quite a few security issues to take care of, and now with the EU GDPR laws there is added complexity to running any website within the EU.

How many products do you intend to sell initially, because it could turn out that you'd be better off starting with a basic package from one of the bigger ecommerce platform providers than paying someone to build you a bespoke ecommerce website?

When you talk of budget, exactly how much are you looking at?

 

[blacknight]

You'd need to specify how much your budget is to get helpful suggestions

How many products will you be selling?

Do you have a business logo etc already?

 

[webhostuk]

You can find plenty of host offering hosting at low cost. Try WordPress or sitebuilder tools offered by web hosting provider to built your website. It's pretty easy to start this day.

 

[Karllacey]

Wordpress or one.com, you could try 1and1 as well. The jury are out on all of them, but they are options.

 

[DMollart]

I would use shopify.com, it's a monthly cost, but comes with plenty of tools and designs for you to get started. They host the site for you. You can point a domain name to it if you wish and they will give you a secure server certificate for free, so your store has the little padlock icon and is secure. They have their own payment gateway, plus you can add your PayPal or other payment options. Huge websites use Shopify so it scales really well should you get bigger.

 

[Alan]

DIY with Shopify is s very good option for someone on a budget.

 

[Calvin Crane]

You should look to budget at least 600 pounds to get a starter shop with woocomerce which runs on wordpress or j2store joomla as examples I personally run myself and have created.

Danger of shopify and sites where you pay a monthly fee is vendor lock in and a lack of control. But you can get running quickly- still those options I gave earlier are quite rapid to get going if you know what you are doing.

 

[fisicx]

You should look to budget at least 600 pounds to get a starter shop with woocomerce which runs on wordpress.

Why?

If you can read you can learn how to do it yourself for nothing. No need to spend £600.

 

[Calvin Crane]

Why?

If you can read you can learn how to do it yourself for nothing. No need to spend £600.

If you are a web developer and can administrate a server then indeed you can do it yourself.
If you want to take 2 months and time off actually building your business to save 600 pounds then go ahead! I value my time much more than that.

Also there are no FREE e-commerce solutions in real terms!

 

[fisicx]

If you are a web developer and can administrate a server then indeed you can do it yourself.

You don't need to be either of these things. I helped a couple with their woocommerce site yesterday. They got some hosting, installed wordpress and woo and added products. They got payments set up and is all worked. I took them the weekend to do. They just needed a bit of help setting up variants. It was just about as free as it gets.

 

[Calvin Crane]

"You don't need to be either of these things." - Yes you do. It's fine to have a basic website as a DIY job but I don't agree an e-commerce site is a basic site.
Fiz- you do websites and server administration so you invalidate your own answer.

 

[BradleyT96]

Wordpress is one of the best I have used

 

[Richard Patey]

I'd recommend the free wordpress + woocommerce - for a local UK host I use Krystal

 

[antropy]

Free wordpress as stated above but I would never recommend hosting with a cheap company as you hear some real horror stories! Alex

 

[DotenHosting]

Hi can any one suggest a good company to build and host a website on a budget, where i will be able to update it and add new products myself. It will need to be an online shop. Thanks

I would recommend a Web host and use WordPress with Woo Commerce installed. This puts you in complete control of your store, most hosts offer free domains and most certainly free SSL certificates nower days.

 

[Inva]

I don't have much to add to the technicalities, but i'll say you have to think 5 years into the future and plan for migration from the free/saas platform otherwise it will cost you in many ways, or at least this is what i see.