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Friday, July 4, 2008

Reseller Web Hosting: a Detailed Look

By Matt Hedges

Once you have chosen a web-host for your site the very next thing that you have to do is to finalize a proper hosting plan. The choice of a web hosting plan mainly depends upon the amount of money that is there at your disposal and as a result, the plan for a smaller and less profitable company will be different from that of a profitable venture.

The requirement for you is to identify your needs and choose whether you want a basic starter plan meant for the beginners, or one which hosts many websites and gives you more than one domain, or you can even opt for a dedicated server, which is mainly used for fully business purposes, and is quite expensive as well.

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.

Also, rather than running a web server, you can run your production all by yourself. This gives you ample space in your account which can be used for many projects, and which would lead to cost reduction as you would be able to offer other people the space that they require. Even in this case, reseller hosting is the best option to select.

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.

Basically, it is a kind of web hosting which enables you to use your hard drive space and the bandwidth as well, for hosting websites on a third party's behalf. Your job is to act as a reseller and as such, you can buy the facilities provided by the host and sell those to other clients at a high price, making a good profit in the bargain. You can collect the charges for the bandwidth and the hard drive from your customer. So it may be said that the reseller leases a dedicated server from a web hosting company to a third party. By just reselling the services, you are not required to take a server on rent from the web hosting company.

Most of the resellers are the ones who either web developers or who run web designs. In case of fresher, reseller hosting is a cheap and economical way in which they can start off with their own business. Even in the case of more experience people such as web masters and also internet consultants reseller hosting is a very lucrative avenue. Here most of the hosting resellers give full independence to the individual resellers to have their own service and fees structure.

Let us have a look at the bright side 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

Ensim Pro- Windows/Unix

DirectAdmin- Unix

Webmin- Unix

Plesk- Windows/Unix

Webmin- 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.

Almost all resellers offer the customers a full-fledged package which includes hosting, and the web host providers offer a huge discount of up to 50% for the reseller hosting account. So that makes reseller hosting a very good opportunity for all those people who rely on performance and efficiency for carrying on their online business!

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