Are You Interested in Becoming a Web Hosting Provider?

A Web Hosting Article Contributed by Frances Rhea

Choosing to Become a Web Hosting Provider

If you are a Web designer or simply an individual who is interested in becoming a Web hosting provider, opportunity awaits you. As a Reseller, you can have all the advantages of being a Web hosting provider, without any of the operating costs required for this type of venture. All you do is provide your clients with customer service, pricing, and billing. The main Web hosting company will provide the network infrastructure and end user technical support.

Earning Money As a Web Hosting Provider

If you are looking for an additional source of income, part-time work or a home business, becoming a Reseller may be the answer. You can earn money by starting your own Web hosting business or by adding Web hosting to your existing business.

This can be the perfect addition for Web designers, Internet consultants, and computer service companies. Most Web hosting providers make it easy and profitable to sell their services as your own.

You Control the Level of Web Hosting Services Provided

To be competitive in today's market, you must offer your customers choices based on their needs and budgets. Most reseller plans give you that control. You will be able to design a plan that will fit any budget while providing the latest and most advanced technology.

What You Get

Most Reseller plans offer anonymous free 24-hour technical support for your clients. This is done through a customizable support desk using your company name.

You can control all aspects of your clients' account using a web-based control panel. This allows you to add or remove features from accounts as needed. You control their bandwidth, disk space, e-mail accounts, and features.

Each client can have a separate Web-based control panel for their account.

Reseller Client Fees

You can charge your clients whatever rate you want for Web hosting. They do not need to know that you are a Reseller.

Accounts usually include: FrontPage support, multiple domain registration, access to FTP/SSH, password protected directories, parked domains, CGI bin, referrer and error logs, POP/IMAP Email, unlimited Email aliases, unlimited Email redirects, unlimited Auto-responders, Secure Server, e-commerce shopping cart, merchant accounts, MySQL, PHP, Real Audio and Video, forums, Server Side Includes, Web Stats, custom Error Page, daily backups, Photo Album management, form mail, Web Calendar, Chat, Bulletin Board, and other scripts.

Questions to Ask before Signing As a Reseller

Knowing the answers these questions will allow you to prepare yourself with the knowledge of the kind of service that you can provide.

• Do you have Private Label reselling?

• What different type of accounts can I offer?

• What other features can be added to an account?

• What kind of interface is provided to modify a customer's account?

• How much control will I have?

• How quickly can a new customer be up and running?

• What hours are your technical staff available for problems and issues?

• How often do you servers get backed up?

• What kind of uptime guarantee do you have?