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How to choose a good Hosting Reseller Program
By admin | February 27, 2008
Companies that do not have the finance for the enormous investment in physical structure and equipment that is associated with starting up a web hosting company can opt for the best alternative i.e. Reselling Web Hosting. Reselling is an exceptional opportunity for these companies.
If the company already has a web presence, adding hosting to their product portfolio is an easy way to generate guaranteed additional income. Why is it a sure-shot? Simply because these services are high in demand in the world of Internet business.
In addition, you do not necessarily need to inform your customers that you are not an independent hosting company. All you need to ensure is that you provide expedite support to stay ahead in this highly competitive industry.
Before you set out with your hosting business, you need to evaluate the service provider that best suits your and your customer needs. A suggestion that I could seriously consider is directly partnering with a Registrar that offers a Reseller Program. Registrars that have been ICANN Accredited are dependable in terms of quality of service, products and support. They know exactly what your customer requires and have created packages and plans for the same. More importantly Registrars with a Reseller Program take into consideration that you are going to resell their products ans services and hence a lot of them set their prices extremely low.
These Registrars also provide you with the management tools for you to provide to your customers and tools that you will need to manage you customers, products, billing and so on. Make sure you partner with a Registrar that provides these turnkey solutions.
Just for your information, these turnkey solutions consists of control panels, account management, billing automation, website templates, etc; and with these web hosting tools, you can literally start a web hosting company directly at sign-up.
I would once again remind you that, when you partner with a third party provider (who will remain anonymous) you need to make sure you partner with the ‘right’ provider. Its you business reputation thats on the line here. Make sure the service provider meets your standards for quality and service.
Before you begin to resell you will need to know the working of the administrative management tools perfectly. Some providers take you through a comprehensive tour of their system. Make sure you ask for one in case they don’t.
Some functionalities that your customer will require should have the ability to upload their website, to make changes to it as needed, to create sub-domains and email addresses and to set up or change their own passwords as well as being able to create alias email addresses and auto-responders. Most services providers know this and will provide you with the necessary. If they don’t, begin your search again.
The most important factor that will set you apart from your competition is support. Your provider needs to offer twenty-four hour technical support in case you need assistance to meet your customer’s demands.
Last but not least you need to secure any kind of transaction that takes place on your website. Providers do assist you with this too by offering digital certificates.
Keep all of these tips in mind while choosing your service provider. Best of luck 
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