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Is it best to feed the site with product info from your own stock management software?
The computer that serves your website is not a computer in your office, therefore it is ‘divorced’ from your own stock management systems. In the ideal world this would not be the case, ideally you would want to serve your own website so when you change your own data so it’s correct in your office and correct on your website. This can be done however, all you do is change your data then export it in a format that can be imported into your website.
Advantages:
- It’s by far cheaper to host your site on a providers server than it is to arrange for a permanent internet connection to be installed in your office. By permanent connection we mean a ‘leased line’ or similar robust always on internet connection and not ‘Broadband’. Broadband is meant as a surfing connection and is limited in its ability to upload or serve data. Some ISP’s actually prevent you from running a mail or webserver on a broadband connection.
- The data you export from your own system contains only the data you want to display on your site, therefore no personal data is exposed as your own computer is not ‘hackable’ via your website.
Disadvantages:
- Unless you are familiar with the import process, ideally this should be done by your website designer.
