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What is a Reseller Hosting?When a hosting provider offers its services to individuals or other companies who wish to resell their own web hosting services, this is known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting has many advantages, since there is no need to have your own hardware, bandwidth, or IT staff to actually run a hosting company. Who would benefit from Reseller Hosting?A person or a company who want to have his or her own web hosting services may prefer reseller hosting. What is the meaning of Private Labeling?If the hosting reseller advertises his services as the actual hosting provider, it's called Private labeling. In this way, reseller's customers don't know who the actual hosting provider is. In fact, most of the time, they don't even know that they are using a hosting reseller. So is it possible to provide web hosting services without any equipment?Yes, because it is not necessary to have DNS servers, web servers, mail servers, or even a high speed Internet connection. Many reseller-hosting providers are already supplying everything that is necessary to start a hosting service. It is even possible to find hostings resellers with ready-made template sites that can be branded to your name of hosting company. Is it easy to create and set up web host accounts for the customers?This completely depends on the selected hosting reseller. Usually, they will provide you with an easy to use control panel that controls many aspects of your reseller account. In this way, creating and maintaining your customers' accounts is quite simple. In case of a problem, who do my customers contact?It is your responsibility to provide the first level support to any customer even though the actual hosting provider is not you. You have to fix certain aspects of your customer's problems, but if there are important technical issues, your reseller hosting provider will assist you. What kind of hosting options can I resell?You can almost resell any type of web hosting account. Some examples are; dedicated hosting, shared hosting and co-location hosting. Make sure that your reseller hosting provider offers all of the hosting plans you need before signing up as the available hosting types will vary from one provider to another. Can I add more options to the reseller hosting plans?Yes. Most of the reseller hosting providers offer additional service options, such as domain registrations, pop3 accounts, e-commerces, etc. The availability of these add-ons depend on the reseller hosting provider and give you the ability to offer full hosting options to yout customers. What questions can be asked to a Reseller Hosting Provider?Below are some questions that can be asked to a reseller hosting provider.
Glossary of terms:BandwidthBandwidth refers to the amount of information that can be carried over a wireless or wired communication link in a given time period. Co-locationIn a general sense, co-location means to move or place things together, not necessarily implying in a proper order. However, on the Internet, it is used to refer to the space provided on the premises of the service provider for customers' telecommunication equipments. e.g. a site owner could place his or her own server on the ISP's premises that provides co-location hosting services. Control PanelAn administrative tool provided by web host to make your web site's maintenance easier. Dedicated HostingDedicated Hosting is a server devoted solely to your web site or business. Server is not shared with other customers, as with shared hosting. DNSThe DNS (domain name system) is how Internet domain names are located and translated into Internet Protocol addresses. Shared HostingShared hosting is the type of hosting in which the hosting providers serves multiple web sites on a single web server, each with its own domain name. Shared hosting is provided by most web hosting companies. Although it is a cheap solution for a web presence, shared hosting is not sufficient for web sites with high traffic. It is much better to look for a dedicated server if your web site have such a high traffic. UptimeUptime is a term for the time during which a server is operational and running. Downtime is the opposite term of uptime. Uptime is measured in terms of a percentile. For example, %99.999.
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