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Internet Web Design Reseller Web Hosting: a Detailed Look
| Reseller Web Hosting: a Detailed Look |
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| Written by Matt Hedges |
| Wednesday, 30 July 2008 00:35 |
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After selecting an appropriate web host, you need to further choose a plan which would suit you the most. Basically, it all depends on what your finances permit you to do, besides your requirement. This is important since the needs of a smaller website owner will be less than what would be needed by a big corporation. The hosting plans offered by the companies are meant for everyone, right from the small owners, to relatively bigger ones, to the huge website owners. The hosting plans also allow you to gain extension into a whole network of sites. So what you essentially have to do is decide between a starter plan for the uninitiated, a plan that hosts a large website and provides for over one domain, or a dedicated server that is expensive and hosts a network of various sites for business purposes mainly. For those venturing into business projects regarding the internet, you will need a larger website as your demand increases. Similarly for a web designer, once you fruitfully design a website you gather more demands for similar stuff. To avoid spending a lot of time while setting up a new project, what you require is a flexible, suitable and affordable plan. And the answer to all these factors is procuring a reseller hosting package. Then again you could actually run your own lucrative production of web hosting instead of the facing the manifold troubles of running a web-server. What you gain through this is an abundance of space in your account for various projects, and be able to minimize your costs by (as well as profit) by offering other people the required space for their domains. Here too the answer you are looking for is reseller hosting. Reseller hosting could turn into a job itself as many people make decent money out of this business. For example, let's say you purchase a reseller account that provides for a hundred domains/accounts for $60. Now, you can sell each account bought under your account for $10. That amounts to a neat sum of $1000 per month from a $60 initial venture! On the flip side you have to set up the accounts, answer a few queries here and there, but you need not worry about the problems of running a web-server as the hosting company shall take care of it. You may spend a little money to promote your web-hosting business but that is negligible compared to the profit you shall be making! So, Let us look at the actual meaning of a reseller hosting. It is a form of web hosting, where you (the owner) have the capacity to use your prearranged hard drive space and bandwidth to host websites on behalf of third parties. As a reseller you buy the host's facilities and then you sell them to other customers making a neat profit of your own. A certain part of the hard drive and bandwidth is billed to the reseller account. So the reseller may lease a dedicated server from a hosting company or resell collective hosting services. If you just resell those services, then you need not rent a server from the company. Most resellers are those who run web design firms or are web developers, systems integrators etc who offer web-hosting facilities as an appended service. For the amateur reseller hosting is an economical way to start a company or business of their own. Reseller hosting is the ideal answer for webmasters, internet consultants or anyone wanting to start a profitable online business. Most hosting plans allow individual resellers to chalk out their own service facility plans and their own fee structure. Let's dwell upon the pros of this system. The first advantage is that you will not need to have a thorough understanding of the technical aspect of this system. It is the responsibility of the host to secure and update the serer according to your needs. The network infrastructure is the responsibility of the data center operator. So as a reseller your job will be limited to only answering queries of the customer, you will not have to worry about the other aspects such as connectivity problems and the other problems related to hardware and software. There are also 'control panel' resellers; these resellers are able to supervise customer accounts with a web interface. For automatic account creation and billing there is software that is of immense use called the ModernBill software. Given below is a list of some of the control panels that you will encounter: WHM/cPanel- Unix Plesk- Windows/Unix DirectAdmin- Unix Webmin- Unix Ensim Pro- Windows/Unix DirectAdmin- Unix There are many advantages of reseller hosting and we shall jot down a few here. Firstly there are noteworthy benefits over both short and long term for the reseller. You can build up your own hosting business on your own terms and conditions without providing any excuses to the server provider. Some server owners alloy a separate IP address for your nameservers. You can host as many websites as you want provided you have the required disk space and bandwidth. A marked feature of most reseller accounts is that they are flexible and allow you to expand your hosting account when you deem it necessary. Most of the resellers provide a package deal to the customers and also provide discount that reach up to 50% to the resellers, this discount is given on the price of the initial reseller hosting account. Reseller hosting is a perfect answer for all the people who wish to have reliable and consistent performance in their business. About the Author: Republished with permission from WebHostingMadness.com, a provider of web hosting company reviews, articles and helpful guides on the web hosting industry. 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