We also use Internet drives like www.driveway.com to store stuff online. In fact you should sign up with host first after finding that name is available.

I hope this article may be helpful to you getting started with e-commerce on a minimal budget.

NOTE: Things are changing fast, daily, on WWW with many free resources no longer free. The policies of some of web sites mentioned in this article may have changed since this article was written.

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Here are just a couple of these free monitoring services:

InternetSeer Web Site Monitoring Service http://www.internetseer.com/

InternetSeer remotely monitors your Web site to insure that customers and visitors have access to your site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If InternetSeer is unable to reach your site, we will send you an email message alerting you that your site is On Error.

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Free Web Site Monitoring at ServerRat http://www.serverrat.com/

Server Rat will monitor your site "Big Brother Style" 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As soon as your web site(s) status changes Server Rat will "Rat" on your ISP and send you an email or message your email compatible pager. You would normally have to pay for this service. But they are offering this service FREE of charge. That means no registration or hidden fees!

For a larger free list of "FREE Web Site Monitoring Services" as well as several free software programs to do it yourself, send a blank email to receive it via Auto-Responder at: mailto:fwsms@emailexchange.org

These free services may very well save you a great deal money by letting you know that there is a problem with your web server, email server, etc.

Certainly, they will save you time and effort by doing a hard and essential job free of charge.

All it will cost you is a little time and effort to just sign up for free services. This small investment can possibly save you a customer.

Even if they only save you one customer per year, do you think it would be worth it for you to have these free services?