Ixwebhosting account is perfectly setup so you can run Oscommerce shopping cart without any problems. Your account have the latest PHP programming language, latest MySQL database system and web server, which is excellent to get maximum optimization and performance with Oscommerce. On our test oscommerce run without any problems.
Oscommerce Shopping Cart
OSommerce is a shopping cart software that allows you to create an online store or ecommerce site. It is one of the oldest shopping cart scripts with lots of features. Supports extensions system where new features can be added without altering core code of the script. Template system is supported as of version 3. Many features by default are included: several languages available, unlimited products and categories, many product options, multi currency, many payment gateways and lots of other features. It is beeing used by many webmasters to create web stores. The latest version 3 will include even more features and options.
Ixwebhosting supports shared SSL on their servers. Shared SSL protects the same way data like dedicated SSL certificate but the customer may see a warning when access your site and the site seal won’t be valid, but the important thing is that yet it protects and encrypts your data. Shared SSL is accessible to https://domain.c5.ixwebhosting.com where c5 is the control panel you are on and the domain is the domain name. Dedicated SSL is also available and can be installed freely. You need to buy a SSL certificate from third party. Installation is easy and steps are provider in this tutorial: http://www2.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.manual11 .
SSL certificates
SSL certificates encrypt and protect the data that tranels between the server and the computer the visitor access your web site. SSL is a must for ecommerce sites, online stores, banks, or any other sites where vital information (credit cards or the like) is transferred. Visitors and customers are more confident when they know there is a https and site seal, it increases your sales and keeps your customers.