Re: The future of PHP
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:23:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: The future of PHP | ||
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> > >Can small business live from e-commerce today?
> >
> > What is the relevance of your question? Do businesses "live" from
> > their telephone? Whether they do or not, they need it in either case.
>
> AFAIK, it costs a lot more money to have any start and operate a
> e-commerce business than a telephone.
Actually... If you are starting a *SMALL* e-commerce business, you can
probably start it up for about the same as a phone installation... :-)
Shared web-server: $35 setup + $20/month (or less)
Registration: $10/year
CCNow or similar processing: very small setup fee, moderate cut of each
transaction.
Telephone setup, in Chicago at least, is quite expensive, and probably is
more than that. At least, it was 15 years ago when I moved in :-)
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