Reseller web hosting
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Reseller hosting is a form of web hosting wherein the account owner may split up their allotted hard drive space and bandwidth and resell web hosting. Typically, resellers are business people including web designers, web developers, or systems integration companies who resell the web hosting as an add-on service to complement a wider range of services. Commonly, resellers can receive 50 percent or more discount on the price of a reseller hosting account from the web hosting provider. Resellers are also allowed to decide their own pricing structure and even establish their own branding. In other words, a reseller can set up its web hosting company on the Internet and start selling web hosting plans under its own brand name.
Reseller hosting generally requires little knowledge of web hosting services in order to get started. Reseller hosts are generally not responsible for maintaining web server services or other maintenance related tasks. To the reseller's customers, the reseller is the "web hosting provider." In cases when technical problems such as server down and access problem arise, this job is held by the owner of the dedicated server in which the reseller host is hosted.
Through "GUI Control Panels" (as listed below), reseller hosting is made simple and straight forward. Some of the reseller programs offer custom Control Panel for their resellers' customers, but a major part of the reseller programs offer the popular, well-known Control Panels.
Well-known Control Panels List:
- Webmin (Unix)
- Hosting Controller (Windows)
- iBizPanel (Microsoft Windows/Unix)
- WHM/cPanel (Windows(beta)/Unix)
- Plesk (Windows/Unix)
- DirectAdmin (Unix)
- Ensim Pro (Windows/Unix)
- Helm (Windows)
[edit] Large Hosting Companies
One large web hosting company is MegaWebServers.Com. It seems to be owned by the same people who own MegaNameServers.Com and several other similar sites. They have some kind of connection to Hostopia.Com, but that connection is unclear. While MegaWebServers.Com is the "behind the scenes" hosting infrastructure for many web sites, there is very little information about the company itself.
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