Showing posts with label reseller hosting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reseller hosting. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

A short intro to becoming a web hosting company

Have you ever wondered how you can start your own web hosting company? Are you a web designer that needs more features or more control in the web hosting you resell to your clients? Don't yet need a dedicated server? Then a private label virtual server is your solution. With a private label virtual server you can set your own prices to control your profits, and earn unlimited income.

There are a lot of companies on the internet where you can register for a hosting reseller account. But do your homework well, otherwise you might regret it later on. Do some research before you register with any hosting company. Check for how long they are in business and if they are reliable. You do not want your customers to join today and leave tomorrow.

One big issue. PLEASE REGISTER YOUR OWN DOMAIN NAME. You must have full control over it. YOU must be the owner of the domain.
YOU must be the administrative contact for it. YOU must be the technical contact for it.

To run your own reseller hosting company is like running a normal website. Believe me, not much experience is required. Since you are responsible for billing your customers, you ultimately determine the profit margin and manage all your customers accounts through one main control panel.

You are responsible for marketing, sales, billing and support activity for your customers. You retain the ownership of your customers. The hosting company has no contact with your customers.

Dedicated Server or Reseller Account:

Dedicated server or reseller account? That is the question. Most people who are ready to start a web hosting business ask this question. There are however different benefits for each solution.
You should choose a reseller account if you are a new business owner who does not know how to manage a dedicated server. Managing a dedicated server can be time consuming if you are not proficient at server management. With a reseller account a team of experts manages the server that your web sites are hosted on. A reseller account is also a fraction of the cost of a dedicated server. Usually a reseller account is a good place to start because you can upgrade to a dedicated server at any time.

Another benefit of a reseller hosting account is that you have no software or hardware maintenance costs. In-house managed solutions require the purchase of hardware (and more as your business grows), maintenance contracts, and software ( with its related maintenance.) Using Private Label Virtual Servers, you don't have to purchase hardware or software, regardless of the number of customers you have.

You buy wholesale and sell retail, thereby ensuring your monthly profit margin. No unpredictable costs like professional fees or hardware costs (should something go wrong with your in-house service). When your business gets successful, there won't be any additional data center, network, hardware, or software costs.

A virtual private server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted. This usually gives you root-level access to the hosting companies machine, so that you can install almost any software that runs on the chosen OS.

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Sunday, March 28, 2010

ResellersPanel Goes Dedicated and Expands Its Presence in Europe

ResellersPanel, the emblem of free reseller hosting, announces the launch of its new line of dedicated, semi-dedicated and virtual private servers. A dedicated hosting service means that the client rents an entire server not shared with anyone else, which is typically located in a data center. Besides choosing one of ResellersPanel's five predefined dedicated server packages offering top-notch hardware and the latest cutting-edge processors from Intel and AMD, the more advanced users can also build their own server configuration up from scratch. They are provided with complete root access and thus will be able to install and configure any additional software, and also to reboot the server at any time. Those who do not possess the skills necessary to maintain a dedicated server can consider one of ResellersPanel's Managed Services packages and free themselves of any administration responsibilities.

ResellersPanel has launched three virtual private server packages offering 200, 400 and 800 GB monthly traffic, respectively, as well. A virtual private server implies the division of a physical server into smaller virtual ones, which work as if they were dedicated servers and run their own full-fledged operating systems. The users can choose between Cent OS, Fedora Core 4 and Debian OSs, and between Plesk and cPanel web hosting control panel types. They can reboot their machines independently with the help of the Virtuozzo Power Console, a software-based virtualization environment, and install almost any software that runs on the chosen OS. The semi-dedicated servers, on the other hand, will be accommodating no more than 5-6 accounts each, so that every user will be able to use up to 20% of the CPU resources, perform up to 90 000 MySQL queries per hour and host unlimited domains and e-mail addresses.

In addition, ResellersPanel has started offering hosting services that use servers located in the BlueSquare data center in Maidenhead, England - a move the company has made to the benefit of its European clients. The rest of the servers are housed in Peer1's data center in Fremont, California.

ResellersPanel's CEO Kalin Blaskoff said that ResellersPanel dedicates the dedicated servers to its dedicated clients, that the company has deployed servers located in the United Kingdom because of the growing demand from its resellers, 25% of whom prefer to be hosted on European-based servers because of their geographical location, and that compared to the American hosting market, the European one is twice as big in terms of population.

Nick Blaskov, CFO of ResellersPanel, said that the semi-dedicated hosting solution is for those who find the resources offered by a shared hosting account inconsistent with their growing online requirements, that the virtual private servers combine the affordability of a shared account with the power and independence offered by a dedicated server, and that the dedicated server solution lets the users host their websites on their own independent server and thus say good-bye to any speed, stability and bandwidth-related troubles encountered with the other types of hosting.

About ResellersPanel

ResellersPanel is the only company in the web hosting business, which offers a completely free, fully-automated reseller hosting program.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Deciphering Web Hosting For Video Sites

Video sites have free web hosting, and this may not really pose as much of a problem as most people might think. There could be various reasons why one would want to host a video online. It could be for commercial marketing, or it could be for networking or just for pure entertainment. Whatever the reason may be, every good site is bound to be looking out for stable web hosting.

There is one important factor that one must remember while looking at web hosting for video sites. Remember that these sites will need special software to stream the videos. If this special streaming software is absent, the video files would be looked at, just as at any other web file by the web host. Having the right software in place will allow you to appreciate the quality of the video and view it in the best way.

If a video site is hosted without software, it will become necessary for the user to download the complete video file in order to view it. Otherwise, if there is any site, which is hosted with the right software, the video can be viewed directly online. This special streaming software will have to be installed on the web server.

There are many cheap options that are available when it comes to getting web hosting services for one's video sites. Shop around extensively before you narrow down your options. While you are shopping, make sure that you will be able to watch your videos online. Also, make it a point to look at players like real player. Real player is one of the most popular ones used when it comes to online viewing for videos. Many companies provide services with which you can view videos on the sites where they are being hosted.

All you need to do is look for compatibility between the player and the video that you want to watch. There are plenty of things that need to be thought about when it comes to choosing web hosting services for video sites. The web server that you are using will need to hold large sized files, as video files generally require a lot more space than other kinds of files.

While choosing web-hosting services for your video sites, you will first need to check to see that the service that you are looking at provides a lot of storage. Then you will have to check to ensure that the given bandwidth allows for a lot of transference. Without these two elements, a web server may be of no use. You can avail of good services for as little as five dollars. Many of these cheaper services provide plenty of storage space.

If your video uses flash, you will be requiring some extra software. This can be installed exclusively. In such a case, in order to view the videos, flash player will also be required. Sometimes free web hosting may also be available. But this is not a good idea as your site might keep getting bombarded by a large number of pop-up ads.