An e-commerce site is nothing more than a website that sells things. The site can be very simple, with a single "Buy Here" button, or it can be very complex, with a full-featured shopping cart and thousands of different products. Most e-commerce sites fall somewhere in between. If you want to get your site off the ground, you don't have to opt for very expensive website hosting. You can get good value from budget web hosting, if you know what to look for. Here are some of the factors you need to evaluate when you are choosing your web hosting for an e-commerce site.