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Why Open Source Is An Experts Choice For Ecommerce Vs Hosted Platforms

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If I were a cockatiel my crown would stand up straight when reading articles comparing web hosting sites like Shopify to WordPress.

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There are other examples but to start because it appears that many people don’t understand the cord differences.

 

Shopify is a hosted platform.

 

You rent their servers, use their templates and are beholden to their support.

 

I think Shopify has about 600,000 stores right now.

 

WordPress is open source – it’s free, anyone can start a WordPress site although they will lead a host with the server to mount it on.

 

There are about 77,000,000 WordPress sites globally – about 1/3 of all internet sites.

 

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Leaving a search provider can be harder than leaving Las Vegas

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I’d like to start out with an observation – If groups are so popular on LinkedIn why is there so much apathy?

One of my e-commerce groups (I’m in more than a dozen e-commerce and social media groups) has 323,000+ members and yet you won’t see 12 replies in the first 30 posts – just sayin’.

I am not a conversion rate expert but I have been running e-commerce websites for 19 years (as of 2022) and developed a sizable knowledge base watching the millions of visitors flow across my sites (along with the data).

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