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Choosing the best reseller hosting plan

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Unlike shared hosting, reseller hosting allows you to create sub-accounts of your main account, and offer web hosting accounts to your friends and family, or even resell web hosting to your customers. You will be easily able to create your own plans, bill your own customers, and no one will ever know that you are reselling another company, when using our services. Our reseller hosting plans are completely anonymous. As your silent partner, we will be constantly working in the backend, providing you with the tools you need to succeed in your reseller web hosting venture. Our duties include monitoring your server, performing software and system upgrades, securing your server against malicious attacks, and assisting you whenever you need any help. This way, you will be able to concentrate on finding clients for your reseller hosting business.

However, choosing the best reseller hosting plan has never been an easy task, especially for users looking to start their first reseller hosting business. Unlike experienced resellers who are able to know how much space and bandwith they need, new resellers are unable to predict their usage. Users new to reseller hosting are particularly unable to tell how much disk space and bandwidth they will be using.

If you are new to the reseller hosting business, then it is unlikely that you start consuming a lot of diskspace and bandwidth from the first time, as our experience shows. Most of the time, users do not use all of the resources allocated to them. Moreover, all of our reseller hosting plans allow you to oversell your resources. In other words, you will be able to sell as much disk space and bandwidth as you want, and we will only charge you for the resources you consume.

Because of the reasons stated above, it is unlikely that you start consuming a lot of disk space and bandwidth from the first few days. Therefore, I personally suggest that you start with our smallest reseller hosting plan. You could always upgrade to the next plan, without any downtime, not even one minute! Your customers will never notice.

On the other hand, if you are an established business looking to enter the webhosting market, you might want to opt for a higher plan. Our reseller hosting plans are very affordable, and are next to nothing for an established business. This way, you will ensure that you are instantly able to scale for your customer demands, as you never know when business comes your way, especially if you have an established brand name, and all the marketing/sales channels are already in place.

As for our experienced users who need a lot of resources and have no problem managing their own servers, our dedicated servers plans offer the same features available on our reseller hosting plans, but are much more flexible, as each aspect of the server could be customised by the user. These dedicated servers are unmanaged, and include root access to the server. The choice of control panels include cPanel control panel, DirectAdmin and the powerful webmin system administration software.

Choosing a domain name for your reseller hosting business

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Hello,

As you might know, Courtix Hosting started as a company with one reseller hosting account, and grew to a company with over 10 servers till date, and we’re still growing. Now it’s the time to give our customers a helping hand! We will be writing a series of reseller hosting articles, which will help you build your reseller hosting company from the ground till top.

Here are some of the articles which will be included under our reseller hosting tutorials:

  • Choosing a domain name for your reseller hosting business
  • Choosing the best reseller hosting plan
  • Setting up your domain reseller account with Courtix Hosting
  • Setting up an SSL Certificate on your reseller hosting website
  • Configuring Your Reseller Hosting Account from Webhost Manager
  • Setup Private Nameservers for your reseller hosting plan
  • and more…

First thing to do when you want to start a reseller hosting business, is to choose a domain name. Choosing a domain name is the most important step in setting up your reseller hosting business, as it would be really hard to switch to a different domain name later on.

From our experience, the best reseller hosting domain name is a domain which satisfies the following conditions:

  • Short and Easy to remember: Your reseller hosting domain names should be easy, short to remember, and should not cause any misspellings.
  • Register additional extensions for your domain: Sometimes, it is useful to register the .net, .org , .info versions of your domain name, in addition to the .com version. The idea is to safeguard the goodwill your domain commands.
  • Register related domain names: Let’s say you operate a company called Anyname Hosting, you might want to register anynamehosting.com , anyname.com, anynamewebhosting.com, etc. If you do this early in your business’ lifecycle, you can save a lot of litigation money when you have grown into a large business.
  • Register a catchy domain name: A catchy domain name intrigues people and invites them to visit your reseller hosting website. For example, flyingball.com makes visitors think about how a ball could fly, and they enter your website into their browser, because they want to know how a ball could fly.
  • Brandable: If you are marketing a product or supporting a cause, then your domain name should be brandable. Brandable means that it should stick into the heads of the people who see it. A brandable domain name should also reflect your website’s identity, i.e. resellerhosting.com should sell reseller hosting, not light bulbs! :)
  • Do not use dashes or numbers: Using these characters may confuse your clients and make your reseller hosting domain name harder for them to remember.

Ideally, all of the above points should apply for your domain name. However, not all of them will apply most of the time. Just make sure your reseller hosting domain name includes the word “host”, “webhost”, “hosting” , or “webhosting”, that will do the trick, and help you fare better with search result rankings as well (courtixhosting.com , for example).

That’s all for today, happy reseller hosting domain shopping. :)

We hope this reseller hosting domain shopping article is helpful. Our next reseller hosting article will discuss choosing the best reseller hosting plan to start your hosting business and grow.