E- Commerce Hosting (e-commerce) gives you the capability to conduct business on the Internet, which is most commonly called E-Business.  ECommerce allows you to sell your products and or services thru your web site and accept payments directly thru your storefront or shopping cart solution.  

There are a number of ways to add e-commerce capability to a web site.   A popular shopping cart that has populated the Internet is the Miva Merchant 5 shopping cart.  Miva Merchant hosting has become  a popular way of providing solutions for Miva storefronts.  There are many out of the box solutions that allow you to add a shopping cart to your web site (which typically are limited in degree of customization and look/feel that would portray your existing web site)    This method may be practical for small web site owners,  but not for larger business or those looking to sell specialized products online that require customization.

A more expensive but often practical method to properly sell online is to have a e-commerce site customized to your needs by a web designer/developer that specializes in this service.    In this case you do pay for the service, but typically have a shopping cart that will be customized to your specific needs.

You will find a list of shopping cart providers, such as miva merchant hosting, miva hosting providers, e commerce hosts, e commerce hosting firms, and much more on this section.