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From the course: Choosing an Ecommerce Platform for Developers

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BigCommerce

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- [Narrator] BigCommerce is a great example of hosted software. Hosted software is software that runs on someone else's servers, and it's almost always closed-source, meaning you can't see the code behind the platform you're on. You can sign up for a BigCommerce account, and in a few minutes, you'll have a store ready to go. You can start adding products, customizing the look and feel of the store, and so much more. And you don't need to know anything about the hardware or software that BigCommerce runs. It just works. Again, something you'll hear proponents of hosted solutions say is work on your business, not for your business, and you can do this with BigCommerce. You never have to update the software. That's taken care of behind the scenes for you. You shouldn't have to worry about updates, database backups, or logging errors. A good example of a BigCommerce site is Jeni's Ice Cream. They can spend more time making new ice cream flavors, uploading those to the site, and fulfilling…

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