Coping with the Christmas rush

As 35 per cent of annual ecommerce revenue is made in Q4 alone and 40% of all consumers start checking off their Christmas shopping items before Halloween, the Christmas rush is the most profitable event of an ecommerce site’s year and it has already started!

How downtime effects your reputation

With worldwide ecommerce on the rise year after year, experiencing website downtime can be an expensive problem for business. But what are the real costs and is there anything that can be done to avoid it?

Is your ecommerce shop hosted safely?

Making the most of nifty web design tricks and promising a speedy checkout process to lure customers into buying from your website is all well and good, but if any element of an ecommerce site suffers a hiccup during a purchase, there’s a significant chance you’ve just lost a customer.

How to use: PEER 1 Hosting

At the root of every eCommerce business is the host. Here we talk to Peer 1 about its data centre services

A close shave for The Gentleman’s Shop

Robert Johnston has run a successful barber’s shop in the Berkshire market town of Hungerford since 1988 and prides himself on the closeness of the shave he and his six barbers offer with their traditional open blade razors.