Reseller Hosting Review

Posted by ady | May 26, 2008 .

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Before spending a small fortune on a dedicated server read on for my reseller hosting review. I was advised relatively early in my virtual real estate career that the best way forward was to purchase dedicated servers but for the life of me I couldn’t understand why I should go to all that expense when there were several excellent reseller hosting accounts available. After checking out a reseller hosting review or two I decided against my own servers and got myself up and running with a decent reseller package from Hostgator, who at the time seemed to come top of all the reseller hosting reviews.

Since then I have opened and closed several other hosting reseller packages before finally settling with the Pro Web Hosting Buzz Reseller Hosting.

2 years and close to 200 sites later I haven’t really changed my mind regarding owning my own servers but I have found that not all reseller hosting packages are the same and its important to know what to look for when checking any reseller hosting review, especially when you are buying as an internet marketer rather than actually looking to resell the hosting.

First Things First, What Is Reseller Hosting ?

Reseller hosting was introduced as a glorified affiliate program for net entrepreneurs who either had customers within a website building niche or wanted to market to them. An example might be a web design company who wanted to add hosting to the service they provide to their clientele.

Here’s the math: You can buy a Pro Web Hosting Buzz Reseller Hosting package for $35 a month that comes with unlimited cpanels (it can host as many websites as you can fit), 100 gb of space and 1000gb of bandwidth per month.

As the reseller, you can then divide that up, for example and simplicity’s sake lets say into 50 packages, each one coming with 2 gb of space and 20 gb of bandwidth. You can then market and sell those packages at say $10 a month, giving you a nice income of $500 a month for an outlay of $35 plus your time promoting and marketing your hosting business.

Reseller Hosting For Internet Marketers

Internet marketers buy reseller hosting accounts not to resell but to host all their sites on. It works out 100’s of times cheaper than setting up even budget hosting accounts for each of our sites and in most circumstances all the sites hosted on the reseller hosting package can be easily maintained from one control panel.

My Reseller Hosting Review

By the time I had filled up my first reseller at Hostgator I was a lot more experienced and had added a few things to my hosting wish list. In the end and after several false starts with other companies I went for a Web Hosting Buzz Reseller package and here’s why.

You can add a dedicated I.P. address for $30 a year to your reseller package which is a small price to pay to ensure you don’t have bad neighbors. Big hosting companies will cram as many domains to an I.P as they can manage and that means not only are all your sites sharing an I.P. but also you will be sharing with other marketers or resellers.

I like to start my sites off on my reseller packages and when (IF) they start getting some serious traffic I upgrade them to their own hosting package and dedicated I.P. address. Web Hosting Buzz have lots of quality packages to choose from and moving them from the reseller to their own hosting is made a lot easier as it’s done “in house” and as they grow in traffic again its easy to upgrade rather than move hosts.

I’ve read like you probably have that a dedicated I.P. address doesn’t give any noticable SEO benefit to a website but I can tell you I have always seen a jump in traffic once set up. One site I moved was doing between 2000 and 2300 unique visitors a day and instantly jumped to between 2800 and 3000 over night and within a week had risen to around 4000.

This has happened in varying degrees every single time I move a site from shared to dedicated and I firmly believe that with somewhere around 90% of all the web sharing I.P.’s it is common sense to assume Google and Co. may well feel that the other 10% are much less likely to be spam or MFA so give them a little bit of extra love.

The Web Hosting Buzz Reseller Hosting package is actually 8 packages ranging from $5 to $55 a month which meant I could start small and then as my portfolio of websites grew I simply upgraded my reseller hosting to fit. This was a major plus because you are not getting what you are paying for with other reseller hosting packages until the space, the bandwidth or both are being used up.

In other words with the first package that I had with Hostgator I was paying around $30 the first month for hosting perhaps 3 or 4 sites, second month for 6 and so on. I was only getting value for money once I had filled the package.

All the above points were what I had decided at various points were needed or would be an improvement in a reseller package.

Think carefully about what you are going to want and make notes so that as you read a reseller hosting review about a particular service you will be able to see if it covers all your needs.
Make sure you are future proof. Its a great feeling the first time one of your sites suddenly takes off but its not nice finding out that site is down because you are out of bandwidth so make sure you can upgrade instantly if required.
Spend some time in the hosts forum and see what their customers are talking about. When I checked out the WebHostingBuzz forum I found a lot of good banter between the customers and the staff where as on other forums there were may complaints about tickets unanswered, sites down with no explanations etc.
Don’t overload your reseller package, leave room for growth. Its tempting to just keep packing them in when you have loads of bandwidth left but sites grow with age, even if left to their own devices. Google likes domains that get renewed, it means they weren’t purchased as a throwaway for spam purposes.
Watch for what is missing in the reseller hosting review. Most have a list showing you exactly what you get with their package but be careful, if something isn’t mentioned, they probably don’t offer it. An example might be dedicated I.P. addresses. If they offer them it will be listed and have a tick by it together with the additional cost involved but if they don’t offer it, they aren’t going to list it and put a cross by its side, they are not going to mention it and hope you don’t notice!

You can read the reseller hosting review and see the features included with the various reseller packages offered by Web Hosting Buzz by clicking here.

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