New to reseller hosting.. need some help

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Posted by quantim, 11-30-2005, 03:50 AM
Hello People, I want to provide web hosting to my customers.. I do not know much about reseller programs. please guide me how this works and what are advantages and disadvantes.. Thanks in Advance.
Posted by WireNine, 11-30-2005, 04:17 AM
What kind of customers do you have? This quote is taken from a post found on WebHostingTalk. I think these articles will help you understand Reseller Hosting http://www.thewhir.com/reseller/articles/intro.cfm http://www.webhostgear.com/22.html For more articles on reseller hosting, go to http://www.thewhir.com/reseller/articles/index.cfm
Posted by quantim, 11-30-2005, 05:44 AM
I develop e-commerce websites for my clients.. and sometime they require webhosting.. also I want to offer web-hosting services to normal users.. do you have any idea what is the right place for resellers and it should be reliable? also I want to know about commission system. thanks for your reply.
Posted by rimoun, 11-30-2005, 01:36 PM
I think the best solution for you is to get a reseller account ... you will pay a flat fee on monthly bases and you host as much websites as your space allows. this is the most profitable solution try surpasshosting.com .. they are reliable and their costs are unbeatable ... And try to ask them to allow overselling for you before you buy.. that will be so important
Posted by quantim, 11-30-2005, 01:58 PM
what is overselling? they only support php and cgi.. can you please look at this site www.websouls.com and see there features for resellers.. they provide all server side scripting features.. but there server is not up all time.. I mean there servers stop atleast two or three times in a week for 1-2 hours.. do you know a website like websouls.com.. thanks
Posted by rimoun, 11-30-2005, 02:25 PM
When you purchase a reseller plan you are allocated a particular amounts of space and bandwidth for the plan. When you create an account you allocate this bandwidth to the web site you are creating. So, if you have 100 MB of bandwidth and create ten web sites each allocated 10 MB of bandwidth you cannot create any more sites because you have used up all of your bandwidth allocation. even if you actually dont use it. You would have to upgrade to the next higher plan to receive more bandwidth allocation. and the same for space on the other hand overselling feature make you able to add more and more websites as you will be bounded by you actuall usage. BUT take care if you will oversell you have to monitor your resources and your customer usage so you dont face a setuation like waking up one day and discover you have ran out of space or bandwidth you can oversell on Cpanel / WHM but i'm notsure about other hosting management systems Try ourinternet.us
Posted by deni, 11-30-2005, 03:16 PM
You may do some search in this forum. There are many web hosting provider which also offering web site design and programming for many platform. You can also search which one will support more language other than php and cgi.
Posted by cartika-andrew, 11-30-2005, 05:41 PM
May I ask what language you develop these sites in? (ie do you require linux based or windows based hosting? or both?) Do you have any special requirements with respect to your ecommerce solution? How large are the sites you host? What type of audience do you target and ultimately, what sort of hosting can you afford? (ie are you looking for business grade hosting or budget hosting?) Sorry for all the questions, but, these sorts of things need to be known before you start looking at providers
Posted by quantim, 12-02-2005, 06:32 AM
we develop asp.net, jsp and php.. and I would like to have windows reseller package.. I dont know have any special requirement.. we are looking for all above server sider languages in single package..and ofcourse we will prefer cheap and reliable service... Normally our clients hosts medium or small scale websites like an online store.. and you know everyone looks for cheap and reliable hosting service.
Posted by morehost, 12-02-2005, 12:17 PM
jcodemasters, even in my opinion, you would be better off with a good and reliable reseller hosting.. but be careful with the host you choose as a bad reseller host can ruin you entire business and image.. All the best!