In: Accounting
stions:
1. What is the difference between hosted and self-hosted e-commerce platforms?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two types of e-commerce platforms?
3. Imagine Harvest Gold is such a success that you now want to expand your business by selling the ingredients for healthy meals online. Which platform would you use? Why?
1. Hosted is a type of e-commerce platform which is also known as free platform in which a business does not need help of anyone instead it can choose their servers and do not have to pay any charges. Under this a business can get a free subdomain from the platform. It makes easy for the business to set their websites. And you also have option to buy a customise domain name, other than that the domain is free of cost. But it has less control with limited storage.Self-hosted e-commerce platform is a type of platform under which a business has to pay the cost for the setup and to purchase the domain. This type of blog is works on the server of the business and the business has to pay for the storage. As it is the own blog of business then they have full control over it and they can customise that according to their convenience.
2. ADVANTAGES OF HOSTED E-COMMERCE PLATFORM
- It does not require much cost.
- It can be customized easily after paying the amount.
- It is very less time consuming process.
DISADVANTAGES OF HOSTED E-COMMERCE PLATFORM
- It gives very limited storage support.
- It costs money for any customization.
- It donot have any personal touch.
ADVANTAGES OF SELF-HOSTING E-COMMERCE PLATFORM
- It has more control on the platform.
- It has many more customozation options available than in the hosted platform.
- It is easy to switch on other platforms.
DISADVANTAGES OF SELF-HOSTED E-COMMERCE PLATFORM
- It is very time consuming process.
- It requires technical teams all the time to maintain this.
- It costs too much to buy the domain and customise it.
3. So, self hosted is best type of platform for the huge brands and for the expands. Because they must need their self customization and more storage for their blogs.