Good Shopping Carts

[Dustin Verley]

Anybody have any recommendations on shopping carts, I need one for the future of my site release of my online clothing store, somebody please help me.

Also, would it be best for me to get a dedicated server or co-location server? I heard I need server skills for a co-location server, would I need one or can I purchase managed services on my co-located server?

[Chicken]

You could get managed services from a colo provider, or hire someone to manage your server, however there are so many deals on leased (rented, whatever) servers now that unless you need something that isn't offered, I'd personally look long and hard into just getting a server with a provider before I bought one to colo.

Colo is great in certain circumstances, you just need to figure out if there's a point to it for what you need.

[Dustin Verley]

Yea, well said Chicken, I'll see what I have to do.

[Chicken]

One day, when we're all older, I'll tell you the sad tale of how much I paid for a couple servers (one being a rather expensive RaQ3), and how much I ended up selling them for.

[Dustin Verley]

GREAT, I LOVE STORIES, :D

[Chicken]

Actually, this smiley sums up the whole experience... :bgw:

[Dustin Verley]

Wow, must got screwed BIG TIME, LOL

[Andrew]

Hi Dustin,

As far as shopping carts go - I usually recommend Zen Cart - Simply phenominal system and capable of handling many many scenarious....

Hope this helps..

[Dustin Verley]

I was thinking of osCommerce and purchasing a template for it, and even add a few member contributions to it. What does anybody think, any other recommendations that would shut mines down?