Many web hosting companies host at The Planet, including PhireFast. Their network is world-famous and their hardware of high quality.

With the recent 100 hour outage at The Planet, the largest privately-held dedicated server provider, many shared website hosts (including PhireFast) were affected. Unfortunately for those other hosts, they didn’t properly communicate with their clients, and many of them don’t keep backup systems. As a result, PhireFast has seen many of our fellow hosting companies fall off the map in the last two weeks due to their clients leaving them.

The good news is that many of those fine people have made PhireFast their new home, and we’ve found surprising growth in the past two weeks.

With this new growth, PhireFast has noticed a surprising percentage of new clients are in need of E-Commerce services.

It didn’t take us long to establish the goal of creating some type of an all-in-one solution. We’ve built the new E-Commerce Pack just for you. It will take care of your E-Commerce needs from A-Z, with:

- Domain Name: .com, .net or .org - Your choice
- 30GB Disk Space: A massive amount of space to ensure there’s plenty of space when your store grows
- 300GB Bandwidth: Roughly 500,000 visitors (based on an average store) per month
- Unlimited Email Accounts: You@yourstore.com
- E-Commerce Software: We’ll install it for you! Choose from Cubecart, OS Commerce or ZenCart!
- Merchant Account: Process credit card payments automatically through your store with a merchant account through our friends over at ProcessingPoint, LLC.

Why did we choose CubeCart, OS Commerce and ZenCart?
Our team reviewed approximately 30 popular (self hosted) shopping cart software applications. From those seen, we liked CubeCart, OS Commerce and ZenCart the best (in that order.) Specifically, we wanted software that is Open Source (so we can give it to you for free,) Secure, Flexible and Feature Rich.

Why did we choose ProcessingPoint, LLC. as our Merchant Account Partner?
PhireFast has worked with ProcessoingPoint, LLC. for about one year now. We personally use them to collect monthly hosting fees from our clients and couldn’t be more satisfied with them. Their prices are outstanding for the support and service they offer. When they agreed to give discounted merchant accounts to buyers of our E-Commerce Pack, we were ecstatic!

Located in Carlsbad, California, ProcessingPoint, LLC. is local to us. PhireFast insists on our providers in the United States of America, and heck, they’re right here in our own state! (ProcessingPoint is a registered ISO/MSP of Merrick Bank and a registered ISO/MSP of Harris Bank.)

Readers, please enjoy the new E-Commerce Pack! As always, please feel free to post comments/question about my words. Thanks for reading!