In seeking to learn about dedicated reseller hosting, I encountered what seemed to be a vague explanation for the value of this Internet activity.
Definitions were a plenty.
A middleman purchases a specific allotment of data storage and transfer space on someone else's server.
The purchase includes, in limited numbers, several registered domain names, a hand full of dedicated IP addresses, and the possibility of an unlimited number of reseller sub-domain names.
The dedicated hosting provider then remarkets the purchased resources.
Tools furnished by the actual web hosting site aid in this function.
Although advertisements, support, and invoices may or may not appear under the name of the reseller, end user support, communications, and billing remain their primary service.
Although storage and bandwidth are often more expensive, the hosting agent will enjoy the benefits of low overhead, reduced startup expense, and self-employment.
And, with no fear of unexpected maintenance expenses, the dedicated reseller hosting agent enjoys a fixed operating cost.
Dedicated reseller hosting is not a lazy man's get-it-quick scheme.
To see a real profit, one must learn the hosting business, and work at it.
Other features include: · Domain parking - an inexpensive method of securing a domain name.
· Control panel - tools to simply web hosting.
· Accounts - creation, listing, and termination features.
· MX editor - controls Internet e-mail routing · Addon domains - permits clients to host multiple website domains.
· Account statistics - tracks web space and bandwidth usage.
· FTP - file transfer protocol for managing files across the web.
· E-mail management - forwarding, filtering, tracing, and more.
· CGI scripts - for bulletin boards, clocks, counters, and guest books.
· Site management - password control, search engine placement, error handlers, index manager, and much more.
· Open PGP key - security and encryption controls.
· Hotlink protection - to prevent theft of images and bandwidth.
Knowing where to best invest funds is a primary prerequisite to reseller hosting.
Some clients need more sub-domain names.
For others, speed is the greater issue.
Sometimes greater bandwidth is most important.
Consider also, that a number of clients will demand a private server.
Others do not mind sharing.
The purchase of virtual real estate comes only after the dedicated reseller hosting business has come to understand its own business focus.
So what is so vague about dedicated reseller hosting? For the entrepreneur, the value of dedicated reseller hosting is clear.
But for their custom there remains a question of fundamental value.
Why should a client purchase web hosting from someone who may not have sufficient knowledge and control of the hosting server? Why would any business choose to use a sub-domain over a registered domain? These are the least answered but most important questions of all.
If you intend to get into dedicated reseller hosting, come up with sound answers and then present them foremost in your introduction.
No one else seems to have done this.