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Whether you're an established web designer looking for volume discounts on web hosting, or simply looking to start your own web hosting business, our Reseller Plans have everything you need to successfully operate and manage the web hosting needs of both you and your customers.
With a reseller plan, you are given the ability to create and manage web hosting accounts in real-time. You do this from an "interface" or "reseller control panel" called
WebHost Manager.
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WebHost Manager
We'll provide you with user access to your own personal WebHost Manager interface, which is where you will create new hosting accounts, modify existing accounts, view bandwidth and storage space usages, suspend/unsuspend accounts, and much more.
Click here for complete details on what you can do with your WebHost
Manager.
Your Main Account
We'll setup your main hosting account in your WebHost Manager for you. Although you could do this yourself from within your WebHost Manager, we thought it would help to see at least one account in your plan, so you can see how it was setup. You can then use it for future reference when setting up additional accounts.
An Unlimited Supply of Hosting Accounts
That's right.... create an unlimited number of hosting accounts in your reseller plan, all from your WebHost Manager. If you ever run out of either storage space or bandwidth in your reseller plan, simply upgrade to a larger plan, add more storage space or bandwidth, or even upgrade to a managed dedicated server.
Custom "Private Label" Nameservers
We'll set you up with your own private nameservers, which is what your customers will have to change their domain name's DNS information to, for their hosting accounts to work. These nameservers will look something like this:
Primary Nameserver: ns1.yourdomain.com
Secondary Nameserver: ns2.yourdomain.com
Your WebHost Manager will be configured so that every account you create will have it's zone files automatically set for your private nameservers.
Customer/Business Management Spreadsheet
We'll even give you a copy of the spreadsheet we use to track customers, their contact information and account information, weekly, monthly and annual sales, and a customer/prospect mailing list. All of this is contained in multiple worksheets in a single Excel spreadsheet.
Unlimited Scalability
So what happens when your reseller plan fills up? No problem..... simply upgrade to a larger reseller plan, or add extra storage space or bandwidth to your existing plan. There is no upper limit to your expansion possibilities.... and we can help every step of the way. If the need ever arises, we will even transfer all accounts in your reseller plan to a dedicated server that we'll manage for you.
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Support
Your customers will expect a certain level of support from you. Existing customers will undoubtedly have questions regarding their hosting accounts, and may run into problems that they don't now how to deal with. If you are not confident enough to handle such support issues, we recommend using a 3rd-party support company to handle your customers' support queries directly. A good company to consider for this is
bobcares.
Website
Presumably, most of your web hosting orders are going to come from your web hosting business' website. It is therefore mandatory that you build a website for selling your hosting accounts (this may be obvious, but we thought we'd point it out just the same :)
Merchant Account
It is a good idea to be able to accept credit cards from your
customers online, as that is how many of them will want to pay you. A merchant account allows you to accept credit cards online securely. Some companies to consider when looking for a merchant account are:
WorldPay - www.worldpay.com
2checkout - www.2checkout.com
PayPal - www.paypal.com
Marketing
Unless you already have a website generating lots of "free" traffic, you may want to consider buying some good targeted advertising to help sell your hosting plans. Some good
online places to advertise a web hosting company are:
HostChart - www.hostchart.com
FoundHost - www.foundhost.com
TheWHIR - www.thewhir.com
Webhost Directory - www.webhostdir.com
HostIndex - www.hostindex.com
TopHosts - www.tophosts.com
HostReview - www.hostreview.com
Google AdWords - www.google.com
FindWhat - www.findwhat.com
Enhance Interactive - www.enhance.com
PPCforHosts - www.ppcforhosts.com
Check out our Resource Center
for more great information and links. A great help to
starting and running your web hosting business.
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