10 Hosted Shopping Cart Solutions To Get You Selling Right Away

Ecommerce just seems to continue growing and growing, and it is becoming almost a requirement that all merchants have an online presence of some kind.  We’ve already covered shopping carts that you host yourself, but sometimes it is nice to just walk in to some place that is ready to go and can take you only a few minutes to set up if you play your cards right.

This is where hosted shopping carts come in handy as they allow you to remove the headaches of maintaining your server, dealing with software issues and more.  These solutions may cost a little bit more, but you can almost view it as saving you money compared to hiring an IT person.

We’ve gathered up 10 of the best solutions that will let you get set up in no time flat, so take a look through and see which one best serves your needs.

Great resource if you don't like to host a shop by yourself.
I'm sure I will try a few of them!

PHPBuilder.com: On The Go Coding with PHPanywhere

In this recent post to PHPBuilder.com they spotlight a web-based tool you can use to write PHP code no matter where in the world you are - PHPanywhere.

PHP developers, just like most IT professionals, are often on the go, working from various locations. You could be working in your office one day, at a conference in a remote location the next day, and from a client's business office the next. [...] PHPanywhere is not just a stand-alone IDE, it's designed with project collaboration in mind. With a built-in FTP client and syntax editor built right in, it makes this tool uniquely appropriate for developer teams as well as individual programmers.

They look at how to get started with the tool and include a few screenshots to give you a preview of how the tool looks and feels. A short feature list is also included.

Just tried it and removed my account after a few minutes:

  • I need to add a ftp server to add / edit files. That is okay but my ftp login/password is send via a non-secured connection (no SSL) 
  • First trial to edit files was in Firefox (Ubuntu) and all windows needed to be resized and the code wasn't parsed in the window. Can't use Firefox 3.5 with phpanywhere 
  • Next trial in Chrome was much better, but hitting the enter button took me into another location than the next line.

Sorry this is not a beta version, I like the idea but there has to be working version and of course the ability to edit files on some "local" server

Rating 2/5 for the nice interface