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Starting Your Small Web Hosting Company | A Profitable Online Business | Part 2

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Go For A Cheap Reseller Hosting Package

Starting your small web hosting company with an affordable or cheap reseller hosting package will set you to a long term profitable online business. A cheap reseller hosting account does not have to be a low-quality package. In fact, most of the web-hosting providers are offering very high-quality reseller hosting packages for a low cost to overcome the intense competition in this field.

There are great reseller hosting plans available on Linux and Windows platforms. These plans allow budding entrepreneurs and knowledgeable individuals to enter the field of web hosting business in a cost-effective way. With a cheap reseller hosting package, you can easily create hosting packages and sell them to your customers. You can set up special prices and packages according to your customers’ needs. As a reseller hosting company, your business has an entity of its own. The customers will not know that you are a reseller, reselling hosting solutions from your parent web hosting provider.

The cheap reseller hosting package for you contains a special WebHostManager (WHM) feature that allows you to manage your customers’ accounts. There is a separate control panel for every client account that can be used for their website’s needs. These high-quality and professional graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and other associated web applications allow you to use your reseller hosting package effectively.

The web hosting provider also assists you with round-the-clock technical and customer support for your customers. Thus, these major hurdles – technical and customer supports – are easily passed on to the professional and experienced staff of your web hosting provider. This can be achieved by redirecting all your customers’ requests for any support task regarding their websites to your web hosting provider’s helpdesk.

The support teams are available 24×7 and thus can relieve you from this major task that needs round-the-clock attention. This is a major boon to any budding online entrepreneur. He can now concentrate more on the promotion of advertising marketing aspects of his reseller web hosting business.

Reseller Hosting Package

A reseller hosting package normally consists of the following features. There are two popular major operating system (OS) platforms – Linux and Windows reseller hosting packages. The features common to both types are as follows:

Server operating system (Linux or Windows), disk space, data transfer (web traffic) allotment, and server control panels – CPanel and WHM for the Linux OS, and DotNetPanel for the Windows OS.

There can be a limit on how many domains and sub-domains you are able to host on your reseller hosting package, but most packages will allow you to host unlimited domains and sub-domains.

The control panels available have attractive web tools and features like Fantastico Deluxe, Site Builder, Error Pages, File Manager, and FTP manager. Some of these may not be available depending on the type of the operating system you opt for, so check the features that you will get with your reseller web hosting package. These advanced web hosting features are very easy to use and you should have no difficulty in expertly using them within a short period of time.

Again, depending on the operating system you opt for, there are built-in advanced database support features. They are: PHPMyAdmin and MySQL, MS SQL Server, ODBC, and MS Access, etc.

The advanced email support applications like Spam Assassin, POP3/SMTP, Mailing List Manager, Auto-responders, IMAP, and Mail Forwarding applications are also available

You can easily use server-side scripts and the major script applications like PHP, Perl, ASP.Net, Servlet, SSL and SSI technologies, Zend Optimizer, Fantastico, ColdFusion, and CGI Scripting using C language and Perl are easily available too.

Multimedia packages like Windows Media compatibility, Flash, and Shockwave can easily be used when required.

When we speak of online business, there is no other more important aspect than the security of the website. With the cheap reseller web hosting package, you get security solutions, password protection of folders, and backups.

The cheap reseller hosting package also comes with almost 100% uptime guarantee, 24×7 customer support applications like email support, live-chat support,  and UK free phone support; and other great features like the money back guarantee and instant account activation.

With such great features available for a very affordable price, you get a complete online business solution to really set you up with starting a web hosting business! Please check our main website and see the various great web hosting packages that are available to your new online business!

Starting Your Small Web Hosting Company – A Profitable Online Business | Part 1

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Start A New Small Web Hosting Company

The right time to start a small web hosting business is now! It is because the prices of web hosting equipments and services are at a very affordable level. The internet connectivity is getting more advanced and cheap. Renting a good web server from even the best UK web hosting company is available at extremely affordable prices compared to the prices in the last decade. The costs of web space and bandwidth have also become quite affordable. The knowledge to run a small web hosting company is easily and freely available on the internet.

To top this great list is the fact that more and more companies and individuals are opting for starting their commercial and personal websites. Because of the present global recession and financial downtrends situations, more people are trying to make a living online. This is because the cost of starting up an online business venture is a practical and possibly a profitable prospect.

Many have begun their profitable online career either as an affiliate selling other merchants’ products, or even by selling great solutions to the global online markets. These website owners need web hosting solutions, which your small web hosting company can easily provide.

So, to begin a small web hosting company, all that you need is the knowledge of running such a company and a web hosting package to suit the needs to start a small web hosting company. We will look into the part of getting a suitable and affordable web hosting package in the next part after we look into the more important parts of starting a web hosting company here, namely:

  • Understanding the market of web hosting and how to apply this knowledge to your small web hosting company
  • How to do a focused market research on the profitable web hosting niche
  • Advertising your small web hosting company freely
  • Understanding the ways of getting visitors to your small web hosting company
  • How to converting them into your loyal customers.

Once you learn these topics, and depending on your budget, getting a good web hosting package is much easier. These specialized web hosting packages are flexible and easily upgradeable, so the early investment can be very low.  Then, as your small web hosting business grows, you can opt for better and advanced web hosting package that is easily upgradeable by your web hosting provider.

Understanding The Web Hosting Market

As said earlier, the knowledge about all the aspects of web hosting is freely available on the internet. A few days learning about the web hosting topics will make you sufficiently confident in beginning your small web hosting company within a couple of months.

Also, there are many online forums that can help you from time to time. The web hosting company that provides you the small web hosting package to run your company most probably will have its own hosting related forum. Usually all the members of the forum are extremely helpful, and some are experts in the field of web hosting.

They can freely provide you the advice that you need. Then, there is the ever ready professional help available from the technical support staff of your web hosting provider in case your website faces technical problems. Therefore, unlike the off-line scenario, the online world has all the help available and most of it is free!

You can also visit the various web hosting websites and learn what types of web hosting packages are offered. You can find out about how much web space, monthly bandwidth, uptime guarantee, add-on domain details, costs, etc.

Learn about how to create and sell your web hosting packages from the various online forums and web hosting websites. If you need more knowledge on any aspect of the business, simply ask your questions on the forums and you will get great feedbacks and solutions!

So, before starting your small web hosting company, you will first need to do the proper research about the web hosting niche. You will have to learn the marketing strategies first. As this market is very competitive, to survive the intense competition, and to become successful the essential requirement is becoming a knowledgeable internet marketer with a focus on the web hosting industry.

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