When considering the best ecommerce hosting companies of 2024, we wanted to make sure they were cost-effective, easy to use, and had features important to ecommerce business owners. We've also taken into account real customer reviews and additional benefits you rarely see with hosting companies.
Here are some of the categories we used to rank the top providers on our list.
Pricing
An e-commerce host's fees should be minimal apart from monthly service plans and per-transaction fees charged by payment providers. We looked at each provider's plan start-up cost, renewal fees after the initial contract ends, the number of sites the plan covers, and whether and for how long they offer a money-back guarantee. Hosting services with low starting prices, low renewal prices, and long money-back guarantees performed best in our rankings. Price accounted for 10% of the weighted score.
Features
Certain features are essential for an e-commerce hosting service to provide. For example, does the host company have his 100% uptime guarantee? If not, do customers have to pay extra to get technical support? Customer support as well. Many host companies offer 24/7 support. Downtime is costly for e-commerce stores, so this is the norm, and hosting services that offer 24/7 support received the highest scores.
Other common features we expected include unlimited storage and bandwidth offerings (definitely included in premium plans if not included in standard plans), free domain name and SSL It includes providing certificates, providing encryption protection, and developed cPanel control panel software.
Additional features we were looking forward to include a provider that offers free domain privacy protection and business email addresses, a content delivery network (CDN), a website builder, and an offer that automatically backs up your data. Ta. We weighted the features with 50% of the total score.
Third party review
We wanted to know what e-commerce business owners think about the e-commerce hosts they use. To gauge our users' opinion of these services, we turned to third-party review websites and looked at reviews that received a score of 3.5 out of 5 or higher. Hosting services with at least 300 reviews received higher scores in the ranking. These accounted for 10% of the total score.
Expert analysis
Our experts analyzed customer reviews and focused on four key metrics to assess how well these e-commerce hosting companies deliver. One such metric is ease of use. Does the business owner need to do any coding, or does the host have a website builder that makes it easy to set up a storefront? Other metrics we considered were standout features, overall popularity, It is cost effective. Overall, this analysis accounted for 30% of the total score.
Canada-specific editing and research (including pricing) is provided by Anna Rey.
