guidance for setting up online store

[rwiju_pal123]

Dear All,
I am starting an online store which will have near about 800 products and a needs to handle a custumer base of 300.some of the products will be updated on a weekly basis
Because of monetary constraints i would like to know whether the open source software like MYSQL reliable or not.
But also i would not like to compromise on the loading time of the site

I am new to all this so if some wants to give anyother advice i will be glad

[is_numeric]

if your new to this i would advise on a shop-in-a-box

This removes a lot of the technical knowledge needed to build the thing.

If you were to start from scratch then it would take a long time just to get the basics down

a couple to check out...

http://www.zen-cart.com/

http://www.actinic.co.uk/

I have had experience of actinic and its an amazing tool. Everything you need from design, deployment and payment / gateway management all from one client