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submitted: Aug 23rd 2008 | by: MattHedges | Total views: 2 | Word Count: 990 | |

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.

If your business is entirely based on the internet, then due to increased demand, you will need a bigger website. The same goes for a web designer, as once you design a website properly, the demand increases and the need for a bigger website becomes inevitable. You need to save time while you set up a new project, and for this purpose, you need a flexible and an affordable web hosting plan. A reseller hosting package would be a good solution to all these problems which you may confront.

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.

In fact, you can take on reseller hosting as a job as well, since many people earn a lot of money of this business. To cite an instance, let's assume that you spend $50 for purchasing a reseller hosting account which provides you with hundreds of domains and accounts. Then, you can sell each of these domains for about $10. So that would easily fetch you $1,000 for an investment of just $50. The only requirement would be that you would have to set up the accounts of the clients, solve the problems that they encounter, and give them proper technical support. The web hosting company normally takes care of these issues so it certainly won't be a major issue for you. You may have to spend some money for advertising your business but given the profits you can earn from it, the money spent is worth it!

So, Let us look at the actual meaning of a reseller hosting.

Reseller hosting is a type of web hosting, here you have the capacity to be able to host websites on behalf of third parties by using the hard disk space and band with. As a reseller the main aim is to buy the facilities from the host and then sell it to third parties such that you are able to pocket a decent amount of profit for your own. In this case a fraction of the amount of the hard drive and bandwidth is charged to the account of the reseller. So here it is possible for a reseller to be able to lese a dedicated server from either a hosting company or from a resell collective hosting services.

Most resellers are those who run web design firms or are web developers, systems integrators etc who offer web-hosting facilities as an appended service. For the amateur reseller hosting is an economical way to start a company or business of their own. Reseller hosting is the ideal answer for webmasters, internet consultants or anyone wanting to start a profitable online business. Most hosting plans allow individual resellers to chalk out their own service facility plans and their own fee structure.

There are many advantages associated with such a system, some of which are mentioned below.

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

Plesk- Windows/Unix

DirectAdmin- Unix

Webmin- Unix

Ensim Pro- Windows/Unix

Helm- Windows

Out of the ones that are mentioned above, the best is cPanel reseller hosting. There are numerous advantages of reseller hosting and here we shall mention a few of them, first of the thing to be noted is that there a lot of both short term as well as long term benefits for the reseller. You can allow your own instincts and make your own decisions without having to report to the host or without having to take his approval. There are some server owners who also allow you to have a separate IP address for the name severs. You have the privilege of hosting as many websites as you want within the required disk space and bandwidth. Another striking feature of reseller account is that you can expand your account as you desire because there is a lot of flexibility.

Most of the resellers provide a package deal to the customers and also provide discount that reach up to 50% to the resellers, this discount is given on the price of the initial reseller hosting account. Reseller hosting is a perfect answer for all the people who wish to have reliable and consistent performance in their business.

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