Before You Buy Reseller Hosting

Purchasing a Reseller Hosting Package? Consider the following six points

If one wants to start his own company for the purpose of web hosting the most realistic and low risk way is by purchasing a reseller hosting package from any hosting company, then start ones own company for web hosting at once without the need of installing or buying any kinds of software package. Before one considers the decision of purchasing a reseller hosting package there are a lot of things to be kept in mind. This article emphasizes upon the six main points one should bear in mind while purchasing any reseller package.

1. Web Host Manager popularly known as WHW and Control Panel:

The widely used and appreciated control panel is Cpanel, which is used for reseller and non-reseller accounts. Whereas the Web host manager helps in conveniently managing and hosting the business. This facilitates the setting up, deletion or accounts and helps keep an eye upon the accounts opened for web hosting.

It has also been noticed that some companies offering reseller hosting packages set up the accounts of the reseller’s clients. One must avoid going with such companies as one wants to manage his customers and the customers always want the control panel of their own so that they can easily control and keep a check on their sites. One should make sure that control panel and web host manager are included in the reseller package. If any account is created for the customer it should be seen that he gets an independent control panel without the payment of any extra money.

2. Dedicated Internet Protocol (IP) Address and private nameservers.
Both of these are very essential if one does not want the people to know the original company which is hosting. If one doesn’t possess a private nameserver then he would be making use of the original company’s name servers.. e.g. ms1.originalwebhost.com

No one wants people to make a search and figure out about the original company. In order to conceal the originality of the hosting company one must have his own private name servers. Many times company offering reseller package gives it but still one must check before making the payments.

The need for a dedicated internet protocol address for ones site and the site which would be hosted is that with the purchase of a reseller hosting package dedicated internet protocol address is not included and a shared one is to be used which is being used by the original company as well. Though they can be hidden with ones own private name server but still they can be traced if the IP is determined.

3. Maintaining quality of customer support
This is another very important point to be considered. A friendly and efficient support should be an essential element in the services of the company from which the reseller hosting package is purchased. Also, it should also be ascertained that no money is charged for the same as some companies do charge some money for assisting ones customers.

4. Brand
The company should allow branding for Cpanel and web host manager i.e. one should be able to customize it with his own graphics by using the brand function in web host manager (WHM). As a reseller one would want to use his own graphics for cpanel and the cpanel of the accounts created to create a good impression, therefore, for this it is better to find out whether branding is allowed on Cpanel and WHM

5. A data center should be established
Hosting companies mostly have an established data center. But it is still advised that one must check, read the network of the company and the information of data center e.g., the location, safety, and other relevant things which should be known about the data center. No one would like to host a site and customer’s sites from a server which may be lying is someone’s living room.

6. AUP & TOS
Accepted user policy (AUP) and the Terms of service (TOS) are very important and should be read carefully to check whether anything about the resellers is mentioned. It implies that the sites hosted and ones own site would accept the policy. If the hosting company does not allow customized accepted user policy and terms of service it would result in a big problem.

A lot of other points should also be considered, if in case the company from which the reseller account is being purchased does not allow hosting of adult stuff on its server but one wishes to host a site containing adult content, to build a giant client base then some other company should be looked into, this is a very critical reason underlining the importance of reading the AUP and TOC of the company from which the reseller is being purchased.

Conclusion

The above mentioned are the six main points which one must consider prior to the purchase of a reseller hosting package. After being well acquainted with the above points one must start looking for the appropriate hosting company which would meet ones needs and the needs of ones clients.

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