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These are some of the providers I have used. A relatively low cost method of renting server space and for aquiring or renewing domain names. Although they have a physical UK office you are basically dealing with the German firm Schlund. Their tech support people seem competent enough and I have not had to wait longer than two minutes to get through. Freechariot If 1 & 1 does currently have a weakness it is the lack of an e-commerce facility. Freechariot provides a method of accepting credit and debit card payments on a secure server. The system can be used with various types of shopping cart software but you can also package it up with the Dig-e-Shop system. None of this is "free" but you could pay ten times more for much the same. 2003 update: 1 & 1 do now offer an e-commerce system but it seems to be more costly, particularly for the small trader. For their part Freechariot now provide a free basic shopping cart (but are a 1/4% more expensive than they used to be). May 2003 Update. Freechariot (F C Networks Limited) have abruptly terminated their small business service, which I had been happy with up to that point. The treatment of their small business clients at this point means that I can no longer recommend any aspect of that group, in fact I would advise you to steer well clear of them. I still believe that there must be a better alternative than the 1&1 e-commerce package and when I find it I will mention it here. June 2003 Update. After some deliberation PayPal has been selected as our card accepting facility. ![]() This software, combined with some tips contained in their manual, can help you get on several of the major search engine databasesand achieve a reasonable position within their listings.
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