Unlimited Wealth Creation through Reseller Hosting
Web hosting can be an exciting business start up for aspiring entrepreneurs. All you have to do to set up your business is become a hosting reseller, i.e., provide hosting facilities to website owners. Here as a business owner, you are buying space from a big hosting company, and redistributing the hosting space to other website owners.
Resellers are nothing but entrepreneurs acting as middlemen, offering you hosting services by leasing time and space from another Web host's server rather than owning their own. Most of the times, the quality of services offered by resellers are so good that consumers do not even have the idea that they are dealing with resellers who do not have servers of their own. Resellers, since they can pick and choose their servers, are basically in a position to provide the customers with the best of services.
Reseller hosting business can be quite a profit making venture once you understand the figures and profit margins involved. Let us go through them. One can buy around 1000 MB space from a major web host at a cost of $25 per month. This 1000 MB space that you now own can in turn be redistributed to site owners who need space for uploading their site. Here you can give about 25 MB space for around $5 per month. Which means your monthly income comes to around $200 when you sell 40 hosting packages. Want more... some hosts allow you to oversell the space and do not charge you extra unless the actual usage of your account exceeds 1000MB. It is seen that a typical user uses less than half of the allotted web space... which means you can double or even triple sell your quota and make unlimited wealth.
And mind well, this income is residual income. It will keep coming to you month after month, year after year. You do the work once... and get paid for it over and over. All you are doing is buying space from a major web hosting company and becoming a reseller host. Your efforts are focused towards selling hosting space and the rest is handled by your web host. Some of them even handle customer service to your customers for a nominal fee... which makes it even easier for you.
If this is not enough... you can earn additional residual incomes by adding recruiting more resellers through you. By doing this you will earn regular commissions on their monthly sales... isn't this smart business.
The profit margins in the business of reseller hosting is quite good and you can start on this exciting business venture even if you do not have the required expertise and access to funds for setting up the required infrastructure. Strange as it might sound, there are also times where a reseller can also be more scalable than a typical hosting firm. A true Web host is limited by its hardware; if a client suddenly requires an upgrade the host is not prepared for, the only way the host will be able to satisfy the customer is by upgrading its hardware - expensive and time consuming for both sides. The reseller host, however, can simply choose to locate with a different Web host that will better suit the customer's needs.
Happy Wealth Creation !!!
Six Main Things To Consider when buying a reseller hosting package
By Abdillahi Abdillahi
Are you ready to start your own web hosting company? The best way to start your own web hosting company is to get a reseller hosting package from a hosting company and start your web hosting company instantly without buying or installing any softwares. But When buying a reseller hosting package, there are many things to consider. So today this article lists the six main things you should consider before buying any reseller package.
1: Control Panel and WHW(Web Host Manager)
This one is ranked number one I guess. Make sure you get a control panel, Cpanel is the best and widely used control panel for any reseller and non reseller accounts. WHM(Web Host Manger) lets you easily manage your customers and hosting business. It lets you set up, delete , monitor web hosting accounts.
I heard that some companies which offer reseller hosting packages set up accounts for you. You shouldn't go with such companies because You want to manage your customers and Your customers want their own control panel where they can manage their sites. So you need to make sure that you get Control Panel and WHM with the reseller package you get. Also any account you create should get its own control panel without paying any extra $$$.
2: Private Name Servers and Dedicated IP address.
These two are very important if you want to keep people from knowing the original hosting company. If you don't have a private name server then you will be using the original hosting company's name servers, e.g. ns1.hostingcompany.com and ns2.hostingcompany.
You don't want people to make a who is search and find out about that the original hosting company. In order to hide the original hosting company you must be able to make your own private name servers. Most of the times companies that offer reseller packages give you that but sometimes you need to ask them before making any payment.
Why do you need a dedicated IP address for your site and the sites you are going to host? Well here is the answer. When you get a reseller hosting package, you don't get a dedicated IP address instead you will have to use the shared IP address which the company is using. Even though you can hide them with your private name servers but it will be easy to find them if the IP is resolved.
There are many tools out there that can be used to find out such things, so wouldn't it be better if you were using an IP address that your site and the sites you host will be using instead of the one which the company and millions of their shared hosting customers are using? I'm sure it would be. But getting a dedicated IP address can cost you like $2-$5 per month and as you can see it worths. After all you don't want potential clients to go the the original company so make sure you get those two ready for your new hosting company.
3: Quality Customer Support
Well here comes another important one. Once you start a web hosting company, it can be very stressful. Clients keep opening tickets. So for that reason and many other reasons you will need efficient and friendly support from the company which you are buying the reseller hosting package from.
They must be there for you 24/7 to assist you with any questions you may have. And make sure they don't charge you any $$ for offering support to your customers because Some companies do charge extra $$ for offering great 24/7 support for your customers.
4: Branding
They should allow Cpanel and WHW branding. What is this? Well let me try to explain it. Cpanel and WHWM branding is customising them with your own graphics using the branding function in WHM(Web Host Manager).
The reason of why this should be considered before buying any reseller hosting package from any hosting company is that you might need to use your own graphics for your cpanel and the cpanel of your accounts so for that reason and many other reasons it is better to make sure whether or not they allow Cpanel and WHW branding.
5: Established Data Center
Well most of the time web hosting companies have well established data center. But still you should check and read their network and data center information, e.g where it is located, security facilities they use, and any other thing that is needed to know about the data center.
After all you don't want to host your site and the sites of your customers on a server which is in the living room of someone :)
6: Acceptable Use Policy(AUP) and Terms of Service (TOS)
This one is also important. You must read the AUP and TOS of the company and see if they mention anything about resellers. Sometimes companies providing reseller packages will make you use their AUP and TOS , which means your site and all the other sites that you are going to host will accept that policy. So if you want to set up your own AUP and TOS then being with a company that doesn't allow such thing will be a big problem.
There are many reasons which you should consider this , lets suppose the company which you are going to get the reseller package doesn't allow adult hosting on the server but you want to host adult sites ,anysite, for just building a great client base so as you can see that policy of not allowing any adult material on the server will lose you many clients and also will make you look for another company. I think that is one enough reason to read and triple read the policies of any hosting company that you want to get a reseller hosting package from.
Conclussion
There you go, These are the six main things you should consider before buying any reseller hosting package. Now that you know these main things then you should start searching for the best hosting comapany that will meet your needs and your client's needs.
About the Author
Abdillahi Abdillahi is a web designer, founder and president of http://kooshin.com, a company providing affordable web hosting and web design solutions to small to medium sized businesses and individuals. For more information, please visit http://kooshin.com
Reseller Hosting: The Good and The Bad!
By Anthony Jewell
Reseller webhosting can be a great way to earn some extra money on the side for your business or even a full time job once you get into it. Though this can be a great way to do business, it can come with some un-foreseen downsides, headaches and a whole lot more. Not to say that you can't be successful at it, but you must first take the steps to assure that down the road it doesn't ruin your business.
An important part when dealing with reseller hosting is that some of the control has been taking out of your hands. This is important because you have to trust in the company you are doing business with and this limits to some things you can do. I speak from personal experience on this, the worst thing you can face when reselling hosting is having a great amount of downtime. If you every want to have some bad emails from your clients, choose a host that doesn't have good uptime.
How much uptime and downtime you have is really not for you to decide, as you are not the one looking over the server. The company you are going through may not be as professional as you and they figure what is a few hours of waiting to get your site up, Right? Wrong! The worse thing I have seen is clients sites going down and when you go to that company's website who you do business with, all you think is "oh my, their site is down too and I can't get in touch with them". This can cause allot of headaches for your and your clients, it can even cost your business.
The best thing to do before going with a hosting company is to get a list of reference sites if you can, to see if they go down. Also watch the company's site you are planning to go with and see if it ever goes down. If so, how quick does it come back up? Another great thing to do is ask around, if the company has good or bad service, then there will be people out there to comment on this, trust me. Also don't be afraid to email those people who had a problem with that hosting company and ask them what exactly happened.
Also when dealing with a company, make sure they offer a good list of services and features that you can offer to your clients. Check with them to see how flexible they are with different scenarios as well as adding on new features. Remember a good company with go the extra mile to show you that they can be trusted.
About the Author
Anthony Jewell has over 6 Years experience in the Web & Graphics World. You can visit my business at http://www.logo2d.com
Resellerspanel.com Launches an Automated PHP Script Installer
By Resellers Panel
Resellerspanel.com (www.resellerspanel.com), a reseller hosting provider, which allows everyone to resell web hosting and domain names without any investments, announces the availability of a new multi-language option in beta mode in its web hosting control panel. Besides English, German and Spanish, the resellers and their customers can now choose to manage their hosting accounts in French, Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian. The new multi-language option of Resellerspanel.com's web hosting control panel will be in beta mode from three to six months.
Nick Blaskov, co-owner of Resellerspanel.com, said that Resellerspanel.com's business model is unparalleled in that it gives resellers the opportunity to sell hosting and domain names at absolutely no cost on their part, and that the new multi-language option is aimed at increasing the user-friendliness of Resellerspanel.com's web hosting control panel, thus making it more accessible to potential international customers who can now take advantage of control panels that are fully identical with the English-language version with regards to structure and content.
In addition, an automated script installer called Elefante Installer has been made available in Resellerspanel.com's web hosting control panel. The Elefante Installer is a PHP web application services installer with which customers can automatically install various PHP script packages through their control panels. The script installer is available in the Tools section of Resellerspanel.com's web hosting control panel.
The Elefante Installer provides automated installation of over 30 popular PHP scripts, among them phpAdsNew, phpList, Geeklog, PhpWiki, phpWebSite, phpBB2, OS Commerce, Mambo, PHP Nuke, PostNuke, phplinks and many others, grouped in the following categories: Ad Management, Blog, Calendars, Classified Ads, Content Management, Customer Support, Discussion Boards, E-commerce, File Manipulation, Groupware Tools, Image Galleries, Portal Systems, Server Management and Web Hosting Tools.
Kalin Blaskoff, CEO of Resellerspanel.com, said that there is no need for the clients to know PHP or anything about the scripts configuration, that the Elefante Installer will handle all configuration settings instead of them, and that in this way clients can install popular PHP packages in seconds without any PHP scripts installation knowledge.
Contact ResellersPanel.com at:
LiquidNet Ltd.
28 Kersfield House
11 Kersfield Road
Putney, London SW15 3HJ
United Kingdom
1 800 574 0902 US TOLL FREE
+1 510 870 2470 International
+44 (0)20 7993 2768 United Kingdom
E-mail: pr@resellerspanel.com
URL: http://www.resellerspanel.com
About the Author
ResellersPanel.com is a UK-based reseller hosting provider established in 1999, which boasts some 30 000 resellers, and which makes it possible for everyone to resell web hosting and domain names without any investments.
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