Search Engines |Directories | Selected List of CSP
- Beginner's Guide to Web Hosting This guide is designed to walk you through what elements are important components of web hosting: various kinds of web hosting, how exactly you get your files loaded onto your web server, what sort of features to look for in your web hosting, and lastly what sort of rates you can expect to pay.
- Choosing a CSP (Commerce Service Provider) "...If corporations hope to be satisfied with e-commerce outsourcing, they'll need to thoroughly investigate what they're doing-- not just reflexively choose the hometown Internet Service Providers (ISP) or a current service provider, as so many do today...".
- Shopping for a Web Site Hosting Service Here's how to go about finding an ISP that delivers the services you need at a price that's right.
- The Web Host Guild: world's first and only web host association, the WHG. It is our hope that the Web HostGuild will become one of the most-used resources on the web for both web hosts and consumers.
- Host Find search engine and directory of web hosting services.
- WebHosters.com If you are looking for a web host, you have come to the right place! You may want to start off with the simple search, or perhaps something more flexible, such as the power search.
- HostIndex Detailed timely information on hosting services. Includes a monthly list of top twenty web hosts.
- Host Search Search for web hosting services. You can search using many different criteria such as price, disk space, server location, transfer allowance, etc.
- Host Finders Free Service dedicated solely to finding Web Hosting Providers and Internet Service Providers's ( ISP's).
- Web Host Seek! offer visitors a one-stop-shop for planning a web presence. It is a search engine and database of hosting companies and packages.
- Web Host Directory This directory is dedicated to helping you find the perfect web host for your web site. The directory is searchable to help you find a host who will provide all the hosting features that you need for your web site.
- HostReview.com Search hundreds of web hosting providers according to the price and featues you want.
- Burstweb.com webhost directory with browse and search options like cgi-bin, formmail, mb, language.
- ISP Check Looking for a home for your website? ISPcheck's Guaranteed! Web Hosts are the very best service providers you can choose!
- BudgetWeb is a budget guide to finding web space services for your small business.
- Top Hosts Top Hosts provides a directory of superior web hosts.
- Ultimate Web Host List Detailed, timely information on Web hosting services. Includes monthly list of top 25 Web hosts chosen by outside review panel.
- Host Investigator A searchable directory of web hosting companies with reviews and a Top 15 chart.
- FreeWebspace.Net Searchable directory of free webhosting providers.
- Active Order The Active Order Form[tm] shopping cart is designed and priced for smaller websites with less than 100 items. The cart allows your customer to securely place a credit card order, which must then be authorized separately through your offline credit card processor.
- Chattanooga Data Connection Offering business and residential connectivity, web hosting, web development, and information on status of company's equipment.
- Do-it-yourself ecommerce site building and hosting Try iHOST Pro Free For 30 Days! No Risk! No Obligation! Includes: Step By Step Site Construction Logo and Button Designer, iEDIT Web Page Designer (WYSIWYG), Free Shopping Cart, credit card processing, Traffic Statistics, etc.
- E-Commerce Web E-commerce enabled hosting. All our hosting accounts come with our Ultrashop shopping cart for free. Our shopping cart features: Easy online data entry with no codes to insert into your pages, built in SSL encryption, and built in PGP email order encryption.
- Fastgraf High speed web hosting with OC-3 line.
- Fusion 500 Customized design, development, hosting, promotion, and maintenance specializing in small to medium businesses.
- icat iCat is a site where you can build your own free Web store.
- Internet System Servers and Software featuring E-Commerce Visit the site and see a demonstration of our services to help you expand your business
- P-Kotech Low cost e-commerce enabled web hosting packages. All of our packages include secure server access, free shopping cart with real-time credit card & check processing.
- Timehost Timehost web services provides ecommerce & web host-based solutions for everyone. Features for frontpage beginners & advanced users, Timehost web hosting can host your site & even put your store on the web.
- Virtualis Virtual and dedicated servers, 24-hour technical support, a shopping cart creator, daily backup, free assistance with web design and programming.
| Commerce Service Providers (CSPs): are those who add commerce-based applications or services to hosting. These CSPs, some dedicated to commerce and others that consider it part of their overall hosting mission. Some have branched out into "full-service" or "one-stop-shop" providers for new and existing e-merchants.(CSPs) offer e-commerce solutions for small to mid-size companies. CSPs lease their services (space or the use of their commerce server) to individual retailers for a fraction of the cost of buying a complete e-commerce solution: a server, a firewall, web server software, commerce server software and payment software. |
- American Banking System Provides web hosting, secure credit card transactions, merchant bank referrals, and access to password protected areas located on their server. This site also provides a lot of useful information on e-commerce in general in FAQ format.
- Anacom Merchant Services Provides various services for the online entrepreneur such as shopping baskets, secure credit card processing, ftp downloading and merchant bank referrals. Uses ICVerify as the payment system.
- AT&T AT&T SecureBuy Service supplies access to all the transaction software and catalog-creation tools needed to open an e-commerce store front. Geared toward high volume merchants. Uses Open Market's system.
- BuyWay A service from MPACT which offers comprehensive payment and order fulfillment. All orders are sent to the merchant in any format of choice - EDI, fax, e-mail or proprietary computer file. BuyWay can also be configured for merchants offering downloadable information-based goods (software, documents, virtual/pseudo tickets for events etc.)
- Cart Cities Free Online Store hosting
- CyberSource Provides a full range of services. Choose the entire portfolio or just the ones you need. You can even select them a la carte on a per-transaction basis. For example, you can have CyberSource manage order processing while your own servers download purchased products; but should your servers become overtaxed, you can temporarily hand your product downloading needs over to them.
- Diamelle provides a commission-only e-commerce solution
- DXShop Using your web browser you can build your shop, manage your product database, upload images, pick-up orders, check site statistics and set-up your shipping calculator.
- EComplete Includes all the components necessary to implement Web commerce such as catalog development; the backoffice infrastructure required to electronically process credit card transactions online; high-speed links to credit card processing services; management reports to measure a site's success; and a commerce-driven program designed to generate traffic to your web site.
- Go-Shop Provides a catalog store-front with a shopping cart system. Secure payment processing done with CyberCash and First Data Corporation.
- HoloStore Instant Stores Instant Stores allows the sale of goods or access to protected Web pages without any CGI programming. Secure service (SSL) available. Credit card processing is routed to an account with either Anacom or Credit Card Network.
- IBM HomePage Creator for e-business Provides point and click site creation with templates. Hosting of your site in a monitored, security-rich IBM facility on IBM servers. E-commerce components including product catalogs, shopping cart, and the ability to accept and process credit card orders online.
- iCat Commerce OnlineE-commerce service from the makers of the popular commerce server software.
- infiNETways Offers web hosting, secure payment processing, merchant accounts through First Bank of Beverly Hills, catalogs with "shopping cart" and licensing keys for software companies.
- Maagnum A full service internet commerce provider with services such as order shipping, electronic distribution (for softgoods), secure payment processing, and 800 & local phone number inbound order processing services. Total turn-key solutions available.
- Maple center a canadian commerce service provider
- MCI WebSite-Commerce Provides site hosting with shopping cart capability, the ability to sell hard-goods and soft-goods, product sales and buyer interest tracking, and secure on-line transactions. Requires the consumer to open a buyer's account, which contains credit/debit information, in order to shop at any on-line store hosted through MCI.
- Merchandizer An e-commerce solution including catalog building, accounting, promotions, sales & marketing reports, UPS tracking, Associate tracking, and secure transactions. It even prints the shipping labels. Set up and management right from a web browser with no HTML or technical knowledge needed. Uses the ICVerify payment system.
- MerchantTrax A web order management and electronic payment service. It enables retail or business-to-business merchants to sell goods or services via the Internet without the expense and technical challenges of developing their own Internet-based order capture, order processing and order servicing systems and operations. Provides web hosting and development through their partners.
- MerchantWAVE Provides catalog searching, shopping carts and an easy storefront set-up. Offerrs a choice of five payment systems.
- nGage Bringing leading software, hardware, telecommunications, financial and shipping service providers together into a fully integrated, secure commerce solution, providing you and your customers with a better way of doing business.
- Pandesic Provides a total end-to-end "e-business" solution. Provides front-end and back-end support, coordinates payment transactions to banks and shipping couriers, and does automated returns processing. An Intel and SAP joint venture.
- PSIWeb This turn-key solution includes CyberCash as a payment system and also uses Mercantec's SoftCart "electronic shopping cart" which lets customers make purchases while running a total balance, tracking sales tax, and figuring shipping charges on the fly.
- SecureTrans Features real time credit card and check processing as well as access to complete back-end administration and reporting systems.
- Tradewind Technologies Specializes in Internet Electronic Commerce. Offers web sites, on-line catalogs, on-line ordering, secure email services and secure Internet connections for corporate LANs.
- VADS Bringing global electronic commerce to Malaysia. Offers cost-effective solutions in Electronic Commerce technologies like Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Electronic Mail, Groupware, Workflow Automation, Electronic Publishing, Product Data Exchange and Bar Coding.
- Viaweb Allows creation of store fronts with an easy WYSIWYG interface, provides order tracking and statistics, and orders are accepted securely using industry-standard SSL encryption. Orders can be retrieved by the merchant (securely) from the Viaweb server over the Web. Orders can also be forwarded by fax.
- Virtual Business Solutions Provides virtual storefront hosting, shopping carts, and secure transactions through the CyberCash payment system and Verisign digital IDs.
- Virtual Spin Provides shopping carts, credit card authorization over the web and the ability to build an internet catalog. Powered by their own e-commerce software, Cartalog