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Web page templates obviously have to be hosted somewhere. Hosting of any of three major engines (osCommerce, Zen Cart and CRE Loaded) is important to understand. Any of these three systems must have specialized hosting. This means that your hosting provider must have all the necessary supports for these systems so they can run effortlessly and without modifications to your new website. It is also desirable that your hosting provider would install Zen Cart™ free of charge (basic installation with no customization).
Now let’s take a short tour through each of the 3 E-Commerce Templates engines’ hosting requirements.
osCommerce
Once again the most simple and easy in the installation process. With osCommerce Templates based website will at first take up very little server space, but as you add products and images that space will need to grow. The same is true for bandwidth: if your store has little traffic then you do not need much bandwidth. But if you have more visitors who spend more time paging through your eCommerce store you might eventually need to have a dedicated server. If you know you will need a lot of room and bandwidth the best thing would be to get a host that will allow you to start small but to grow as you need to.
ZenCart
For ZEN Cart Templates based website the minimum/suggested server requirements: PHP 4.3.2 or higher (PHP 4.4.x for best performance), Apache 1.3.x and MySQL 3.2.x or higher. “RegisterGlobals” may be on or off, safe_mode off recommended. Also please note that many shipping and payment modules require the cURL to be installed/compiled with PHP. Another thing is that support for https may be required, depending on the accepted payment methods. The use of SSL (secured socket layer) during account creation and checkout is recommended.
CRE Loaded
Basically the same server requirements (unless “Registerglobals = On” is set). The installation process is a little more complicated, you must go through some additional steps for installation. This process includes running the installation script at your actual domain name and /pathtocatalog/ with the folder that you installed the CRE Loaded Templates engine into. Then you adjust some settings considering tax zones, shipping modules, payment modules and other options. You may also set the store configuration settings using the store administration tools configuration menu.
Development of PHP 5 and mySQL 5 compatible releases is in progress for both CRE Loaded and ZenCart.
Besides, TemplateMonster also produces lots of other products types like Flash Templates, Flash Intros and Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery Templates etc. Those are only a small part of our family of website templates.
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