A friend that is a small business owner is looking for a new hosting company (I'm recommending GlowHost). He wants to totally rebuild his on-line store and shopping cart. He uses FrontPage 2003, (not my first choice but he likes it and feels comfortable with it). He has been on-line and has found an ecommerce template designed for FrontPage that he feels will meet his needs.
I'm recommending he purchase your Professional 4 Star plan as performance, backups, uptime and support are his main concerns. His current host is only providing a shared SSL certificate and very spotty support. He wants his on-line store to have a dedicated IP and private SSL certificate which the above plan provides at fewer dollars than he's paying for the shared SSL and shared IP address.
Now, he hasn't purchased it yet, but I have looked at the template specs and it's .asp. It has a built in database for the on-line store but it's in Access .mdb format. The documentation says to ask the hosting company if there is a special folder where the database should reside. The default folder in the template file structure is called fpdb and is under the root of the new store. It needs write permissions but be non-browseable. Question: does GlowHost allow connecting to an Access DB residing on your servers? Is it possible? Would you recommend it?
They do have a PHP version for FrontPage but he doesn't considers PHP real FrontPage, and that is all he wants. We all have our crosses to bear, but sometimes I wonder, why I' nailed to mine!
I'll be happy to provide any additional information.
Thanks!