Quckpress has just launched their new Reseller Control Panel called "Reseller Central".
ResellerCentral is a unique Reseller Control panel offered by HostNine. With their innovative control panel you can manage and consolidate all of your domains in one centralized control panel. And you can host your websites on servers all over the world.
Reseller Central acts as a layer on top of an infinite amount of servers delegated throughout data centers around the world. As you add accounts within Reseller Central you can choose where you want the account to be located. With the new HostNine Reseller Central system,
-Automate
-Manage all of your domains from a
More information and screenshots are available at: HostNine Reseller Central. If you decide to purchase, use the coupon code "H9" to get 25% of all reseller packages.
This is a pretty amazing offer from Eleven2 Hosting. They're offering $19.99 offall of their reseller plans. Check out the revised pricing for the first month of their reseller plans:
Starter Plan - $0.01
Advanced Plan - $10.01
Extreme Plan - $20.01
We can't say enough good things about Eleven2 as a company. Their owner Rodney Giles is running his business the right way.
Use the Coupon Code "resellerpenny " to receive $19.99 off all reseller plans.
Starter Plan - $0.01
Advanced Plan - $10.01
Extreme Plan - $20.01
We can't say enough good things about Eleven2 as a company. Their owner Rodney Giles is running his business the right way.
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Researching Reseller Hosting by Derek Vaughn
Anyone who has researched reseller hosting knows that there are a vast number of reseller web hosts offering an array of products to choose from. So how does one select a reseller host who will provide an excellent product backed by dependable servers with outstanding customer support? Here are a few suggestions which you might not have considered to help you select the reseller host that is right for you. Reputation - Most of us would probably think to turn to the major search engines and review the rankings for reseller hosts. This is the first step in determining a hosting company's reputation. You can search for company names, types of hosting (for example - ASP.NET reseller hosting), or hosts in a particular region. Be sure to look at what others are saying about any reseller hosting companies you may be considering. William Toll, Senior Director, Product Management,
withNavisit explains his view on selecting a reseller host based on reputation, ''There are many hosting providers that can enable a reseller hosting business, there are few that can enable a great reseller platform to build a business on. Most resellers should thinkfrom their target customer backwards - select a hosting provider/platform that will meet the needs your customer base. For example, if the reseller is going to target a financial vertical they should select a hosting provider that can pass any due-diligence that a customer in the financial industry may ask. Is the facility SAS 70 Type II certified? Does the provider offer the ability to expand offerings to include complex hosting solutions that may unlock the ability to offer solutions that meet more than just the "website" hosting service that a reseller might start with. In the end - look for quality, flexibility and a provider that will grow with you. And - never be shy to ask for a reference.''Geography - Depending on your clients and objectives, you may need to narrow your reseller hosting search down to a specific region. The most compelling reason to select a hosting server in a specific country is to take advantage of Google's search rankings segregated by countries and ranked via Google search specific to that country. For a list of all the different country-specific Google URLs, you can view this page. At the bottom is the list of country-specific Google links. For example, to see results most relevant to France one would search Google
. fr . Even more targeted are the web page results which originate from that particular country. Google provides a radio button selection at the top of the search box which allows you to search the web or only pages originating from that country. It has been demonstrated that websites originating in a specific country are given preference in a Google search conducted via the Google URL for that country. So as an example, if you or your clients want to rank well in France - you should select a hosting reseller which has its data center in France. This will give you an edge in rankings for Google.fr.
Stuart Melling, co-founder of reseller hosting company 34SP.com in the United Kingdom agrees, ''We see a number of our clients that originate in countries outside the UK, but who want to serve a UK client base. These resellers need a UK-based hosting provider who can offer a data center which is in the United Kingdom. This means that their customers will be treated as a local company by search engines when ranking companies in the UK search listings.''
Service and Support - It is often the case that selecting a reseller with great service and support can be elusive. This is because practically every hosting provider will claim that their support is fantastic, and the buyer will only truly get a sense of the level of support after the sale. Additionally, buyers will frequently spend most of their search efforts comparing the feature set, specifications and price rather than concentrating the search efforts on service and support. So how can the service and support aspect of a hosting reseller be investigated prior to purchase? Here are some suggestions.
1. Use a review site - preferably one that relies on current customer reviews. For uptime and reliability consider checking Netcraft. This is an independent third party verification of uptime as measured across multiple measurement points. Of courseReseller Hosting Guide is a great source of reseller hosting data as well. There are also valid comments on many resellers at forums such as webhostingtalk.com as well.
2. Turn to experts who review sites and make recommendations. One example is the Daw Web Hosting Blog.
3. Use Google to search for negative reviews.
4. Use Twitter search to see what current customers really think. Go to theTwitter.com homepage and enter the hosting company's name into the search box. The most effective way to use Twitter's real-time search is to try a search repeatedly over the course of several days. That way you will pick up a good cross section of commentary on the company's performance.
5. Email, call or chat into support during a time when you might likely be using support if you were to be a customer. This will give you a sense of wait times, and the quality of the service answers. Remember to contact the support department, not sales.
Good luck in finding the perfect reseller hosting company. Don't skimp on doing your homework on reseller web hosting, remember that research time spent before you sign up is time well spent.
Anyone who has researched reseller hosting knows that there are a vast number of reseller web hosts offering an array of products to choose from. So how does one select a reseller host who will provide an excellent product backed by dependable servers with outstanding customer support? Here are a few suggestions which you might not have considered to help you select the reseller host that is right for you
withNavisit explains his view on selecting a reseller host based on reputation, ''There are many hosting providers that can enable a reseller hosting business, there are few that can enable a great reseller platform to build a business on. Most resellers should think
Stuart Melling, co-founder of reseller hosting company 34SP.com in the United Kingdom agrees, ''We see a number of our clients that originate in countries outside the UK, but who want to serve a UK client base. These resellers need a UK-based hosting provider who can offer a data center which is in the United Kingdom. This means that their customers will be treated as a local company by search engines when ranking companies in the UK search listings.''
Service and Support - It is often the case that selecting a reseller with great service and support can be elusive. This is because practically every hosting provider will claim that their support is fantastic, and the buyer will only truly get a sense of the level of support after the sale. Additionally, buyers will frequently spend most of their search efforts comparing the feature set, specifications and price rather than concentrating the search efforts on service and support. So how can the service and support aspect of a hosting reseller be investigated prior to purchase? Here are some suggestions.
1. Use a review site - preferably one that relies on current customer reviews. For uptime and reliability consider checking Netcraft. This is an independent third party verification of uptime as measured across multiple measurement points. Of courseReseller Hosting Guide is a great source of reseller hosting data as well. There are also valid comments on many resellers at forums such as webhostingtalk.com as well.
2. Turn to experts who review sites and make recommendations. One example is the Daw Web Hosting Blog.
3. Use Google to search for negative reviews.
4. Use Twitter search to see what current customers really think. Go to theTwitter.com homepage and enter the hosting company's name into the search box. The most effective way to use Twitter's real-time search is to try a search repeatedly over the course of several days. That way you will pick up a good cross section of commentary on the company's performance.
5. Email, call or chat into support during a time when you might likely be using support if you were to be a customer. This will give you a sense of wait times, and the quality of the service answers. Remember to contact the support department, not sales.
Good luck in finding the perfect reseller hosting company. Don't skimp on doing your homework on reseller web hosting, remember that research time spent before you sign up is time well spent.
About the author:
Derek Vaughan is a web hosting industry veteran, marketing consultant and writer. Mr. Vaughan has architected the marketing growth of several prominent web hosting success stories leading to acquisition including Affinity Internet, Inc., Aplus.Net and HostMySite.com. Prior to his entry into the web hosting industry, Mr. Vaughan was responsible for online marketing at The Walt Disney Company where he marketed ecommerce for the ESPN.com and NASCAR.com brands. Mr. Vaughan received his M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University and currently serves on the HostingCon Advisory Board.
Derek Vaughan is a web hosting industry veteran, marketing consultant and writer. Mr. Vaughan has architected the marketing growth of several prominent web hosting success stories leading to acquisition including Affinity Internet, Inc., Aplus.Net and HostMySite.com. Prior to his entry into the web hosting industry, Mr. Vaughan was responsible for online marketing at The Walt Disney Company where he marketed ecommerce for the ESPN.com and NASCAR.com brands. Mr. Vaughan received his M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University and currently serves on the HostingCon Advisory Board.
"Reseller Hosting" is a fictional concept. It's always been a marketing term not a technical specification.
Unlike other broad used web hosting terms like "Shared Hosting", "VPS Hosting", "Dedicated Hosting", "Managed Hosting" or even "Budget" and "E-Commerce" hosting, the term "Reseller" lacks technical specification or specific set up that would distinguish it as a hosting type. But at the same time "Reseller Hosting" is a multi-million dollar industry.
Why? The reason is simple. A relatively small change in any web hosting automation software allows individuals who cannot afford to invest in their own web hosting infrastructure or do not have skills in managing web servers to establish their own web hosting brand. Shared, VPS, Dedicated or any kind of web hosting service can be resold. All the Reseller newbie needs is the ambition and skills to market itself on the web.
How a Reseller account gave birth to two web hosting companies?
I've been managing a web hosting company for seven years now. I entered the web hosting market as a small web design studio, founded by two guys in Bulgaria. There was no venture capital or other significant investment behind our beginnings. We needed to find a Shared Hosting service for our web address (fouthcolor.com) and initially signed up with a company called Addr. However it wasn't acceptable for us to wait 48 hours to get response on our technical support tickets. It sounds ridiculous today but my first web host used to respond our tickets within 24 - 48 hours.
There weren't that many web hosts at the time so we didn't have many options. One day we were emailed by someone who said he could provide a decent service and promised to respond promptly on our tickets. It didn't take us a long to decide to make a move. The guy who emailed us started his business as Alabanza reseller. Today he owns a reputable Shared hosting provider called ICDSoft. His company still answers promptly to support tickets, sticking to his promise from many years ago. However, we decided to leave because our client portfolio had grown very fast. We needed a dedicated server and RackShack (today it's named ThePlanet) was the company that attracted our attention because of their aggressive pricing model. The dedicated server we got from them gave a birth to Host Color, a popular name in today's hosting industry.
This is my story. You can see how an email sent to someone eight years ago made it possible for a web hosting provider to be created. The email was sent by someone with a Reseller account. When he began searching for clients he didn't operate his own equipment and didn't know much about server administration. But this didn't stop him from creating a web hosting company.
The above story isn't unique in the web hosting industry. If we decide to interview 100 owners of Shared hosting companies we will find out that a lot of them have entered the web hosting market as resellers. Even if it is not unique, the story is a good example that anyone who has a spirit of entrepreneurship inside and a certain skills in selling and doing web marketing can easily create an online company, a web hosting provider in particular.
Is Overselling Killing Reseller Hosting?
The Reseller Hosting inherently tied to Shared Hosting. Most of those who operate reseller hosting brands sell low cost shared hosting services. Their business is on the verge of vanishing into a niche as part of the evolution of the web hosting industry.
Since 2006 the hosting market has grown substantially and thousands of new web hosting providers have emerged. The prices of Dedicated and Managed hosting have gone down. Today anyone can get a low-end rack-mountable server for less than $70/month and to run their own boutique web hosting company.
Virtualization and the rapid development of various VPS Hosting technologies made the reseller hosting accounts look outdated. However the thing that's killing "Reseller Hosting" is the overselling trend in Shared Hosting market. When web hosts began offering "Unlimited disk space" and "Unlimited data transfer" for $7 per month or even for less it has become unnecessary to buy a reseller plan.
It is impossible to compete with Shared Hosting providers who sell "Unlimited web hosting" when you have a limited amount of resources in your pocket. If anyone buys a Reseller Hosting plan which features 50 GB disk space on the server and 250 GB data transfer per month, they can create 10 shared hosting accounts, each of them featuring 5 GB disk space and 25 GB data transfer per month. So the reseller might try to sell these 10 accounts but it will be very hard for them to compete with their own web hosting provider because they can't make the same "Unlimited" offer.
Reseller hosting is born again.
A small, but very significant change in the concept of producing and delivering computer resources saved the reseller hosting niche. It's name is Cloud computing. The new networking model of producing and delivering computer services form a highly available and scalable computing infrastructure brings Reseller Hosting to another level. Resellers are born again!
The "Cloud" is an excellent chance for anyone involved in Reseller Hosting to abandon the traditional way of selling web hosting services and to become part of the new Cloud hosting industry. And those who decide to move forward can stay in the Reseller market and even grow as a business. Those who decide to keep going in the same direction by selling services the old way might see that their business will be gone.
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Dimitar Avramov has 10 years experience in the web hosting industry. He is a founder and former CEO of Host Color (hostcolor.com). Since 2006 he's worked as a journalist and business consultant to dot-com businesses. He is an owner of the popular web hosting blog DawHb.com. Since August 2008 he is a CEO of Single OS, a company that produces Fuscan Linux cloud hosting platform.
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