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Mergers and acquisitions of e commerce services providers are kicking into high gear, opening up the possibility of major benefits from vendor consolidation in the industry. The rate of consolidation by vendors in this space has been picking up since 2008, with over 1,200 acquisitions occurring since that time. Over half of these have also been within the last 18 months.

Larger e commerce providers are emerging from this acquisition spree, and they are now poised to provide a range of services to e-retailers that range from integration to maintenance. Having many services from the same company is appealing to many e-retailers. Integration of many disparate systems is often fraught with difficulties for e-retailers. Large companies like IBM and Oracle are now offering this type of integrated service to help retailers focus on their core business.

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Many companies are turning to e commerce services to help them sell their products online. These companies are adopting technology that allows them to operate online stores. This trend is catching on with businesses of all sizes who are choosing to operate their businesses primarily online.

Its popularity can be explained by the lower costs involved in operating an online store versus a traditional brick and mortar store. The conventional store has much higher utility bills and labor costs compared to e commerce operations, which make e commerce stores more competitive. The rent for e commerce websites is usually just a small monthly fee for web hosting service, and an e commerce business can be operated with fewer people as well. Advertising and marketing online are cheaper as well, with many options for Internet advertising available.

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WebhostUK Ltd is using new, high performance servers for its e commerce services hosting, VPS hosting, and dedicated server hosting. These servers are ideal for hosting e commerce applications like Magento and Oscommerce, as well as for CMS's like WordPress and Drupal. WebhostUK is the UK's top web hosting provider, and its new Dell servers are powered by Nginx.

They feature Quad Core Xeon processors, SATA drives and powerful RAM. Nginx with Apache boosts hosting performance significantly, and it's known for its stability and rich feature set as well. Nginx consumes fewer resources than traditional servers because it doesn't use threads to process requests. Instead Nginx relies on a scalable, asynchronous architecture which uses small and predictable memory footprints. The company will provide pre-configured Nginx servers with free managed services to clients.