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I plan to set up an ecommerce website in the US and am thinking of going with a all in one package. To be specific what are the top few providers of reasonably priced ecommerce website and hosting packages?

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I agree with Allan, you need to provide a lot more information about your startup and what its needs are. – Jeff Atwood♦ Jan 11 '11 at 9:26

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I've personally always liked working with GoDaddy because of their customer service. I've called them all times of the day/night, every day of the week, and have always gotten someone on the phone who speaks fluent English and is able to help. The phone support is technical enough to work with detailed issues, and they will seriously try to help you when things go wrong.

That being said, I've also heard reports of people who couldn't get certain types of sites (specifically Drupal) working on some of their hosting packages. So before you sign up with them, check the eCommerce system you plan to use and the hosting package you want to get, and see if you can find any customer reviews on that particular combination.

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I agree. We've been using GoDaddy for our WordPress site for about a year, and have no complaints. It may not be the best, but it's good enough. – Zuly Gonzalez♦ Jan 15 '11 at 16:10
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I'm not a fan of godaddy - their registrar process is convoluted, they can "repossess" the domain at will based on a spam complaint (and charge you to get the domain back) while you are offline, and their shared hosting solutions always seems to have problems / specific workarounds needed to work with wordpress, joomla, drupal.

Regarding hosted ecommerce solutions, there are lots of posts in onstartups that can help you. look here, here, there, and even over here.

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Interesting, I've never had the issue with domain repossession, though your point about specific workarounds is certainly valid. Wordpress never seemed to have an issue, but Drupal certainly did on the shared hosting. – Elie Jan 10 '11 at 16:00
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@Elie - i've heard it many times. While i'm all for tough anti-spam measures, being forced off for a min of 2 days and paying $199 to reinstate isn't my idea of business friendly - esp. when people can mistakenly report newsletters as spam. see policy - godaddy.com/agreements/ShowDoc.aspx?pageid=SPAM_EULA - some horror stories are on the web as well - here's a (biased) anti-godaddy site nodaddy.com/#horror – jimg Jan 10 '11 at 16:36
Interesting. My guess, though, is that they'll try it with someone who gets sufficiently ticked off and takes them to court, where they will lose if the person was sending legit emails that actually abided by their EULA. – Elie Jan 10 '11 at 17:32
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Are you looking for somewhere that will provide and manage the ecommerce software/platform for you? or just a secure host?

Do you need credit card processing as well?

You need to be more specific in your question

If you just need a secure host, ScaleEngine.com is good and provides scalability and CDN.

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Thanks for the responses, Sorry I wasn't specific enough. I am leaning towards a provider that can manage the ecommerce platform for me. I need a decent cms as I am not the most computer literate person going around. I am basically looking for something that I can bring my domain name to, add my products and start selling. some reporting and analytics will also be needed. Paypal would be ok for payment, however a shared ssl cert would be good to provide other payment option (credit cards). I am looking at depotnet at the moment, any comments on them would be helpful also. – Nei Jan 12 '11 at 8:01