E-commerce is (or should be) taken seriously - unless you're just doing it for a hobby from your garden shed.

GoDaddy is absolutely fine for the hobbyists, who don't care (or mind) if their installations fall over, or if they experience countless hassles, downtime, operational inadequacy, functional inefficiency, etc.

People who intend to run a business owe it to themselves AND their customers, to run a secure, reliable and robust webshop - and this starts with using proper hosting.

As with everything out there, CHEAP usually means NASTY - so the best initial benchmark for reliability is price.

Zencart is very reliable software, but it is only as strong as its weakest link.

If you want to see a list of reliable hosts, click the link at the top of this web page...