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TheJetBlack

TheJetBlack

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Hello. I had a question. GoDaddy has PayPal right? (When I sell stuff, whats the percentage PayPal will take from it?) I'm looking to sell stuff and I'd like someone to explain how PayPal works and such. But mainly my site layout as I'd want it to be is like this, for example:

What are other CREDIBLE, LEGIT, and RELIABLE web hosters besides GoDaddy?

Thanks.
 
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I use HostMonster.com since I didn't want to deal with GoDaddy's disgusting attempts to push every little detail on you.
 
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I use HostMonster.com since I didn't want to deal with GoDaddy's disgusting attempts to push every little detail on you.
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I set up a friends site and she already had GoDaddy. I agree, it was a pain dealing with all their little pushes. I use HostGator and couldn't be happier.
 
Godaddy is ok. I have used them for several years. Thier ecommerce web sites seem to work ok. The arrangement with paypal is outside of godaddy but is linked in the purchase process so you will need a Paypal merchant account. I think if I had over 10 items to sell I would consider using the godaddy ecommerce plan. As I sell under 10 items I designed my own site using web expression 3 and added Paypal purchase and cart buttons which link to my paypal account. Works real well and allows for charging of sales tax when appropriate. You are allowed to keep the money in your paypal acount or electronically transfer it to your bank account if you desire which is what I routinely do. Paypal payment go to my business banking account and is not linked to my family account. Go to paypal.com and study the tutorials for merchant services. You can visit my site at www.natureflixs.com if you want to see how it works on the customer end. I think the paypal cut for processing credit cards is about 3 percent but nothing compared to the hoops you have to jump thru to accept credit cards directly.

As far as getting more detailed answers on how things work you need to do the research at the godaddy and Paypal websites.
 
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I does Hostgator compare with GoDaddy price wise for simple hosting.

I host at GoDaddy and it runs less than $70.00 a year for premium hosting.
 
I maintain several small sites for friends on a variety of providers. My personal preference is
1&1 - http://1and1.com very robust, responsive support without a lot of foof. Some of the others can be damn near impossible to navigate your way around, one even loves to charge you for every little item separately (must be owned by at&t).

Paypal has precoded html you can just drop into your page(s) to set up payment options. Fees are very reasonable and handles international transactions/currencies easily.
 
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Mark Williams said:
Godaddy is ok. I have used them for several years. Thier ecommerce web sites seem to work ok. The arrangement with paypal is outside of godaddy but is linked in the purchase process so you will need a Paypal merchant account. I think if I had over 10 items to sell I would consider using the godaddy ecommerce plan. As I sell under 10 items I designed my own site using web expression 3 and added Paypal purchase and cart buttons which link to my paypal account. Works real well and allows for charging of sales tax when appropriate. You are allowed to keep the money in your paypal acount or electronically transfer it to your bank account if you desire which is what I routinely do. Paypal payment go to my business banking account and is not linked to my family account. Go to paypal.com and study the tutorials for merchant services. You can visit my site at www.natureflixs.com if you want to see how it works on the customer end. I think the paypal cut for processing credit cards is about 3 percent but nothing compared to the hoops you have to jump thru to accept credit cards directly.

As far as getting more detailed answers on how things work you need to do the research at the godaddy and Paypal websites.
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Thanks. If I am, too, selling videos on-line -- and I wanna sell; have viewers pay and then stream videos on-line. GoDaddy or Hostgator or whatever's legit, will allow me to do so, right? Upload with them and not Vimeo (your work is pretty cool btw)?

And when I do this -- I'm getting a Merchant/Business account and NOT a Premier account on PayPal?

And what if the viewers aren't comfy with using their credit cards on-line or don't have one? What can I do then to get those potential viewers and readers for eBooks?

I set up a friends site and she already had GoDaddy. I agree, it was a pain dealing with all their little pushes. I use HostGator and couldn't be happier.
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What do you mean "little pushes"?

Thanks for your replies, peeps.
 
And would I need a VPS/Dedicated server for uploading and streaming videos -- I mean, a lot of 'em? Does GoDaddy or HostGator or Cirtex have them and which is the best and which is affordable and does work with MAC?
 
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Hmm... can somebody please answer my questions above? I really need answers...
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It may be that you simply need to contact these companies and ask them directly. Different hosting companies have different offerings. I use Globat.com and they have full ecommerce packages. However, I don't know how they handle pay-per-view or pay-to-dowload mdeia streaming since I've never done that.
 
Thanks for replying.

Cirtex web hosting confuses me. They just e-mailed me saying what I told you I wanna do with my site, they can't do.

So if I have a Mac, does it matter? 'Cause all of their VPS or VDS seems to be Linux or Windows based.

Also, GoDaddy says this:

Streaming video is delivered directly from a Web server to an onscreen video player. Streamed video is not downloaded to an end user's computer.

Our shared hosting accounts do not support streaming video, but you can still display video on your site by embedding a video file such as an MPG or AVI into your Web page. Site visitors download the video file to their computer while it plays onscreen. Although this is not technically streaming video, viewers can still watch the video as it is being downloaded.
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So... what does that exactly mean? Can I have my video "pay per view-like" business on a shared server?

AHHHH! Web Hosting confuses me...
 
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