All about
Reseller Hosting
Reseller
hosting comes in two forms.
·
Those
who want to make a business from purchasing an allotted amount of web space
from a reseller hosting company and re-sell that space as their own hosting
packages, under their own brand identity. Usually these people are web
developers or people with a degree of technical knowledge.
·
For
those wanting to host two or more of their own websites, but who don’t want or
need the space offered by a dedicated server.
What are the benefits of reseller web hosting?
The
benefits of reseller hosting include; the opportunity to establish a small to
medium sized hosting business from very little outlay; the ability to outsource
the support to the company from whom you purchased the reseller hosting package
from; and the ability to white label your hosting plans, granting you complete
anonymity from the original hosting company you bought your reseller hosting plan
from. This is also known as “Private label reseller hosting”.
Managing your reseller web hosting
account
Reseller
hosting accounts will usually offer one of the most common control panels; cPanel is a control panel for end users while WHM or Web
Host Manager is for administration. There is also Plesk
which can be used for both end users and administration. WHM and Plesk permit you to create, as well as manage all accounts
and some of the major functions they can carry out include:
- Ability to restrict
e-mail accounts, bandwidth and disk space of subaccounts
- Manage and create all
subaccounts
- Sending mails to the
users of subaccounts
- Changing passwords of
subaccount users
- Checking server status
cPanel and Plesk
are especially designed for end users permitting them to handle their own
accounts that include:
- Creating email
accounts
- Viewing site
statistics with ‘AWstats’ or ‘Wesalizer’
- Creating auto
responders and forwarders
- Viewing account
information like server status and bandwidth usage
- Managing domains,
parked domains and creating sub domains
- Creating and managing
SQL databases
- Adding and removing
FTP accounts
- Using advanced tools
like hotlink protection
In
addition, cPanel also provides easy access to some
pre installed scripts like Fantastico.
At
Storm Internet, we use Plesk due to its attractive
front end as well as its easy to use functions. We also like the fact that both
our customers and our Administrators use the same program, something which
helps a great when dealing with user issues.
Do you need technical knowledge to be
Reseller?
Although
on paper it is not essential, we tend to find that those purchasing Reseller
packages do have a degree of technical knowledge. This is because of the need
to understand e-mail features, MYSQL and PHP and to offer support and advice to
their customers. If you have no technical knowledge, you may find that the
learning curve is too much for you. This would then have a negative impact on
how happy your customers are and may also overload the support department of the
original hosting company.
However, Storm Internet has come up
with a plan to enable non-technical webmasters to become a successful Reseller.
Check out the Storm Affiliate Scheme which enables you to earn up to 25% on each
sales you make- and all you have to do is place a Storm banner on your website.
It’s as simple as that! http://www.storminternet.co.uk/affiliate
