14 DAY TRIAL // Due to the increased growing rate of the Internet, the businesses based on web hosting services have a lot of activity in selling domains, web hosting and providing various internet based services.
If you are planning to have your own web hosting company, you have three choices: start from the ground up with your own web servers, take a dedicated web server, or choosing a reseller web hosting plan. When you decide to go with a server managed by yourself, the costs could be a little bit higher than the estimated profit on a short term, because of the competition and server management costs.
But for a low investment (around 24 USD/month for 50 GB web space) you can deploy your own web hosting business with a reseller web hosting plan, without the need to have server management knowledge. When you are a reseller, you will act as a stand-alone web hosting company: you will provide to your customers with web hosting plans with various prices, depending of the disk space, bandwidth, server application, on line assistance and more.
You will gain access to a control panel which will allow you to manage your customers' accounts. After the customer makes a payment for a certain web-hosting plan, you will enable his/her account using a simple web browser based application (control panel).
The most important aspect of your web hosting service's success consists in the methods of your online business promotion. You should design a simple website where you must clearly describe all the hosting plans' benefits and prices. Another key factor is the quality and features offered by your reseller account. You should try to select the best reseller web hosting account in terms of optimal balance between price per month and features.
You should look for a competitive price that must guarantee you the next features: multi language support, payment gateway and billing software, unlimited number of domains parking, domain reseller account, technical support and more. When you start to promote your business, you must have in mind all the general rules of web marketing that will aensure the popularity of your web hosting services, because you will notice the competition's presence and actions, and you must act accordingly.