We have set up a VPS reseller option that gives the customer a set amount of ram/disk space/bandwidth transfer rate etc. and allows them through HyperVM to set up their own VPS's and sell them on, they are even able to spread them over multiple servers, albeit we only have 2 VPS servers at present.
Its a pretty nice offer and seems pretty decent but i cant help but wonder why other hosts are not doing this? I only looked into it because a sales associate had mentioned it was possible.
Is there a potential for abuse that im not seeing?
The plans i was thinking of offering was roughly:
1GB ram
30-40 GB disk space
Fair share bandwidth
for about $100
The servers we have are 8GB quad core Xeon E7300.
i am thinking i am overlooking some kind of abuse issue that is why no other hosts are providing this,
We have about 3 resellers on one server and all of a sudden, when I log in to whm and click "Show Reseller Accounts", all accounts show under root.. What's even strager, is that under package colum, it says "undefined"
However, when I click "list accounts", all accounts show and they are properly setup up with the correct package and owner (not all root.. They also show to which reseller they belong).
how to fix the problem when I click "Show Reseller Accounts"?
I'm not sure if I posting in the right section, but I have two questions.
1. I'm actually not sure if I should purchase a reseller account. I don't know if it's what I need. I would like to able to provide *free hosting* for fan-sites, blogs, fanlistings, etc. I am not interested in making money off of hosting. This is something I've wanted to for awhile. Are there any suggestions for this?
2. Once thing that popped into my head is that I would like give my hostees more than FTP access. Can I give them their own cPanel access with their FTP account? I've been hosted on starszz.com before as sub-domain (or ftp account), and had cPanel access. I didn't have a domain either. I've browsed hosting sites, and I just don't recall seeing information about giving ftp accounts cPanel access.
I am currently on the Bronze Shared plan at Downtownhost. I love 'em, and have referred people to them before. I currently help out have a few clients that I help out with some Wordpress blogs (the technical side of things), and I have recently been asked a couple of times if I know of a good host. Of course, I send them to DTH, but I recently asked myself if maybe it was time to go reseller with them and sell space to these clients? Or should I just sell them some space out of my own shared plan? Mind you, they are not technical at all, so they won't be logging into any Cpanel control panels or anything. At what point does it make sense to go reseller? My question is regards to all aspects: financial (for me!), technical, support, etc.
I am designing websites for diffrent folks for some years now from time to time and it's time for me to move on. Get more clients and so on and monetize everything or as much as i can. Well, providing for them full services witch consists in Hosting + domain registration + all there is. Since most of them have no idea about anything when they come to me, most don't even after hard explaining, i wanna cut down to 1 fee that includes everything...designing, updating,
In the past few days i've seen tones of reviews and offers and re re reviews, i can say by know that it's a dirty game going on played by some managers, lol...the idea is that i can't trust what they say nor the reviews that i have seen cause in one place it's all milk and honey and in another place it's sucky to say the least.
So my buget to start with would be from 10$ to 20$/month. I prefer a host that owns it's stuff and it's the first hand and not a re re re seller.
I want cPanel/WHM - unlimited accounts (domains, sub-domains, bla bla bla...basic stuff)
No tax for transferring domains
No hidden taxes - no scammers pls cause i have enough already in my life MONTHLY PAYMENT
To be able to get ip's for a fair price from diffrent classes. I'm planning to make an extra income from blogg farming (no spam from servers. got my own stuff)
I see that reseller and VPS are kind of the same price so what would be better. I have limited knowledge of unix (i used to work some years ago but my skills were crapy and surley i forgot everything) but i can update/upgrade them to some point...hope it won't be required, don't have so much time nor the brains
I'm currently on a reseller, and as I gain clients I'll be moving to a VPS in the very near future from the looks of it.
Coming from a reseller where I haven't had any performance spikes, and everything has been working great....what sort of specs should I look for in a VPS in terms of RAM?
I like using cPanel/WHM.
As far as shared hosting, and reseller hosting the main aspects are simply space and bandwidth. Then of course the company ethics and support reliablility and whatnot. From a server aspect, it's just space and bandwidth provided.
I'm assuming a VPS adds a few new dimensions including RAM.
I had setup and account for the new free host i was making.I setup the domain then made the site and last i want to do a test:to create a sub domain user with cpanel access.
But couldn't access it.As it seems I didnt make it a reseller account!
So,I looked like an hours and cant find a function to make it into one without deleting it first! Is there any other way?
After having shared hosting for years I am thinking of moving on to something a little more reliable/advanced. I need it to be basic and cheap at first but with room to grow.
So, my questions:
1. Am I likely to see a significant speed/reliability benefit with VPS over reseller space?
2. Am I likely to encounter any big headaches with a VPS as a total beginner?
3. Are there any big advantages to a VPS besides moving out of a shared environment?
4. Is it realistic to run a VPS when I know nothing about Linux admin (yet)?
5. How is Plesk vs Cpanel?
Right now, my needs are basic. I could probably go with a cheap VPS but my lack of knowledge would mean I would need some kind of management on top. I'm tempted to get a reseller account but I wouldn't want outgrow it and move again anytime soon.
So I've got a reseller account set up with about 71 individual accounts created under it. What's the easiest way to create a backup of the reseller account (including all accounts created under it) and send it to my new VPS? I have SSH enabled on the reseller and root access on the VPS.
Rsync seems somewhat intimidating but maybe I'm looking at it all wrong. I have limited command line experience. Maybe someone can shed some light on this for me? I'd like to have a method that I can get familiar with and re-use.
I am looking for a web host. I'd like to stay away from resellers, but I'm not sure how to tell if a company is a reseller or the 'original'. How do you find out?
Quite simple - does anybody know of any Directadmin resellers?
Me (and my customers) are used to directadmin so that is the control panel I would like to use on my servers. However not all hosts offer directadmin, and that means I would have to get it from directadmin.com myself.
The main 'issue' with this is pricing. Single licenses cost $29 per month. While a reseller can get the same license for a one-time fee of $49. That means turning a profit in 1.5 months when going that way instead of single licenses.
Does anybody know of a way to buy these one-time licenses? I am aware of the fact that they do not include support, that is fine.
I'm still looking for a new server. VolumeDrive.com has interested me, but so far I've been unable to get a real price quote out of them (four requests).
With the recent problems with a different reseller I want to make sure I don't deal with a reseller.
The VolumeDrive site says they have their own datacenter, but it appears all their traffic is routed via burst.net (hostnoc.net which is BurstNET). I suspect that VolumeDrive is just a reseller for BurstNET, but honestly I don't know for sure.
Anyone know the bottom line on VolumeDrive? I'd like to find out before I give one last attempt to get a price quotation for my config.
I recently bought a VPS from [url].. Probably about a week and a half ago. The VPS runs great, everything's going fine, but I'm wondering what is up with their company... I can't access billing, and their frontpage has been replaced with this message:
Quote:
I am sorry to see no website. We are redoing alot of things with our company. If you need any support do so by emailing us We can get them. At [url]or [url]We you are a customer and need support you can do so by emailing and one of our techs will get back to you.
If you're a company, don't you think you should notify your customers in a more professional manner than just putting a small message up on your website?
I've tried emailing support to ask them what's going on because honestly I don't feel too comfortable putting my files on this VPS and not knowing if it will exist tomorrow... It's been 24 hours since my email and I haven't received a response yet. 2 weeks ago when I looked into this company I received responses from Sales within minutes and now all of a sudden nothing at all..?
I have seen that many companies like godaddy and other domain/hosting companies allow resellers to have their white-label domain reseller account.
And all they ask resellers is to just point the nameservers to their ips..
I would like to know how we can do the same?
I already tried it with CNAME record and had a success tooo.
But the problem is not everyone have access to CNAME records and they need to contact their service provider to change it for them.. and I do not want to put the resellers into that hassles.
But I would like to setup a whitelabel solution with nameserver in such a way where our customers will just point their domain to ns1.oursite.com, ns2.oursite.com and they see our website on their domain..??
another eg. for your understanding.
lets say, we setup a complete shopping cart on oursite.com and we have resellers who want a white-label cart .. then we just ask them to point theirdomain.com to our ns1.oursite.com and ns2.oursite.com so when they go to theirsite.com they see a complete shopping cart as good as hosted on their site.. without actually hosting any files on their site.
Anyone know of any hosting service that provides a FULL Reseller Package on VPS, NOT SHARED.
ALL Reseller Packages I have found are on "shared hosting"? Why is that?
As a Reseller the most important thing to me for my clients is Isolation and Reliability. I don't want to subject myself or my clients to a shared hosting environment. Isn't this a reasonable request?
I have the budget, but just can't find what I'm looking for. And I don't think I'm asking for the extraordinary for a TRUE RESELLER Package.
Major Points I need: 1. Billing Management Software (WHMCS-clientExec-WHM.AutoPilot-I know I can get it myself, but why not offer it for Resellers?)
2. Merchant Account/Payment Gateway (I know I can get it myself but why not offer it for Resellers?)
3. At least 40gb Disk Space
4. At least 512 RAM burstable to 1024
5. Fantastico
6. RVSkin/RVSite Builder
7. Live Chat Support 24/7 (not the kind that says "leave us a message")
8. Zend and IonCube pre-installed
9. CPU share at least 30%
10. DoS protection, Firewall APF, IPTables, Server Hardening
11. Daily off server or off site backups
12. Zend and Ioncube installed
13. SSL (free install?)
14. cPanel/WHM (ALL the stuff that comes with it)
15. RoundCube webmail
16. Guaranteed 99.9% Uptime
If you cannot offer ALL of this on a VPS, please don't bother posting. I don't care too much for a bunch of "add-on" pricing either, can you just give me one price.
If you offer a Reseller Package without billing management software and a merchant account it is NOT a COMPLETE RESELLER PACKAGE. How am I supposed to sell hosting without these?
I come to you the community to ask can I host a vps and a domain together on the same domain.
Okay so hears how it is I buy a vps from www.site1.com and then a reseller from www.site2.com can I then host these both on www.mydomain.com with out any problems setting up accounts on the vps or reseller?
bext type of server to get for my current requirements please.
I need a server to host a simple company web site and our product which is also a web site.
The company web site will be set up soon but the product is still 5-6 months away from being put onto the market. So at present I need a server to host the web site and also need a place where I can host the web site product as I continue to develop it and upload files to the server.
Now ultimately the web site product will have a number of users (I hope!) will contain content including video presentations and will will have a forum so it's important that users have fast access to such material without having to wait.
I thought I would go for a VPS from a company called VT6 Internet who have had some good reviews on this forum.
My budget is around £70 ($140) per month.
However I'm now considering whether I might be able to save some money and go a for a decent (buy cheaper option) in the mean time while the product continues to be developed.
Such as a shared host or a reseller?
I would be really grateful for any advice from you guys please.
If you were in an early stage situation like mine would you go straight for a VPS or make do with a shared or reseller and upgrade as your company grows?
