If you are planning to become your own web hosting company, are looking to resell web hosting space for profit, and/or would like to provide hosting to your clients at some point in the future, you are going to need to know the differences between the types of hosting you can purchase.
Reseller Hosting is a low-cost but low-resource hosting plan, wherein you become your own web hosting company. Your clients are each given control panels of their own and you are allowed to brand these to suit your company’s image, so that your customers will never know they are hosting with the provider you’re using as a Reseller. The downside for this usually affordable hosting plan is that your customers go to you, as the web host, for billing and technical issues. They cannot simply email the big web host to get assistance, as they wouldn’t even know the bigger host exists. Another downside is the limits on storage and bandwidth – you cannot itemize how many resources you a lot to each customer. All customers get the same storage, bandwidth, emails, etc.
Dedicated Server Hosting is often much more expensive, but if you have a long list of clients to host, you can often make a greater profit from Dedicated Hosting than from Reseller Hosting, because you are only paying for one plan as opposed to paying for 50 small reseller accounts. With Dedicated Server Hosting, you can also a lot storage and bandwidth amounts to each specific customer, based on your quote of storage and bandwidth. So if you have 80GB hard drive space, you can give one customer 1GB and another 5GB, making each customer happy. You can also brand the control panel to your company’s image, as well as create your own nameservers, which will make your company look even more official.
Overall, Dedicated Server Hosting is best for companies who need a great deal of storage and bandwidth or have many customers in need of reliable hosting.
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February 6th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
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