E-COMMERCE DEVELOPMENT

New article posted on PracticalEcommerce.com: If you are like nearly every other small business owner, you are hosting your website on a shared or dedicated server which is managed by your web hosting company. Your website is most likely up 99.9% of the time, and you don’t have too many conversations with your hosting support team. That is, if your site is online and operating as it should. Where you start spending a lot of time writing emails and making phone calls is when your web site goes down due to a server outage, hardware failure, data center contingency, or myriad of other reasons. Ecommerce Website Backup Strategy

Do you have geographically diversified web development teams that operate on different time schedules? Take control over their contributions to your project by utilizing version control and task management software. Increase efficiency and redundancy while creating documentation and organization of changes to the project. Whether your working on a single website, or a cluster of complex software applications, take the upfront time to standardize the method to control the source code, and task schedule. You will be grateful for this when your lead developer quits, or you hire some new team members. A version control system (VCS) is basically a running log of all the source code changes within your website. It allows a developer or designer to quickly analyze source code changes and enables them to revert, modify, or delete change

A very important, yet often undervalued service critical to your web business success is your web host. If you are looking to migrate to a new host, be thorough in your research, and compare a variety of companies to find the perfect fit. If you are a website owner, manager, or webmaster, take the time to review the different hosts and server scenarios available to you. There are a plethora of different hosting companies out there-use the attached checklist to make sure you don’t get swindled! This article is a great resource to get started, and applies to smaller web businesses. Larger web businesses will consist of more advanced schemas which are outside the scope of this article. Download the spreadsheet here: Web-Hosting-Checklist Define Your Hosting Needs The first step in the hunt for the perfect host is to be clear i

If you are currently hosting your website in-house, or through a hosting provider/data center, you should know how your data is backed up, how long it will take to restore from barebones, and who to contact in the event of disaster. If you are a website owner, manager, or webmaster, and the term disaster recovery is new to you, use this basic checklist to help you get started in building a disaster recovery strategy for your web business. This article is a great resource to get started, and applies to smaller web businesses. Larger web businesses will consist of more advanced schemas which are outside the scope of this article. Part 1 - we will focus on discovering what your current backup process is, and what it should be Part 2 - we will make a list of the time needed to restore information should it be damaged, deleted, or