Reseller hosting is a shared server setup, meaning your accounts will be placed on the same server as others from other customers. This is probably the number one thing to watch out for with reseller hosting. Since you have no control over the other customers, or their customers, you have to be able to trust that the provider is setting things up properly, securely and and monitoring/maintaining the server and network properly.  Things could go wrong if not done properly… insecure setups can lead to others getting to your data, a spammer could get onto the server leading to blacklisting, or an account could suck up all the bandwidth or cpu resources. These are just a couple examples of what could go wrong. Since you’re not in control of the server, you need to be able to rely on the provider to watch for it and fix it quickly should it happen.

Leaving the server administration is also one of the biggest advantages as well. This is especially true for new hosts who probably don’t have the experience or manpower to administer servers on their own. It is also considerably cheaper to go the reseller route. A decent reseller account can be had complete with control panel, possibly some billing software to handle collections from your customers, installation script, etc. for $10 to $15 per month.

When looking for a reseller account, be aware of the disk space and traffic (often incorrectly call bandwidth) that are included. Some reseller accounts can get so large in these stats that they rival small VPS accounts. When choosing you want to selection on that meets your needs and provides some growth room. You also want to make sure that the provider will upgrade the account without having to migrate and without penalty.

A nice feature, if you can get it, is a dedicated ip address or two for your accounts. This does a couple things for you. One it limits the impact if a spammer gets onto the server. Blacklists usually are at the single ip level unless it’s so rampant on a network that they block the whole network. It also does something else… The larger hosts probably have multiple physical servers.  By having your accounts to a single ip address, migrating the account, say for load balancing the servers, becomes significantly easier WITHOUT changing ip address. If your account shares ips with other accounts, that option is out the window…

If you’re serious about growing your business, a reseller account is a good way to get started with minimal cost.  But be sure to check with the company that they will support you should you need to move up to a vps or dedicated servers. That dedicated ip address can help there too. Once the vps is up and running they can copy the data over and move the ip to the new server. We’re talking minutes of downtime… a lot easier than if you had to backup the accounts, download the backup, upload to the new server and then change dns, and potentially wait hours for dns cache to die.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment here to ask or email me at rob -at- lagniappeinternet.com

To understand the concept of Linux reseller hosting, it is very important to know about reseller hosting. The reseller is the one, who buys huge chunks of web hosting space for a parent web hosting company and then sell its to third parties. So if you are looking for small amount of web space to start your own web designing company then Linux hosting is the ideal plan for you. The best thing about Linux hosting is that it is cheap and easily available. For a host of reasons, Linux reseller web space has become a very popular solution for web hosting.

The main reason why Linux reseller has become the most preferred choice is because Linux operating system is considered to be very robust and stable and it also supports many open source application for the web. Generally websites run on Linux reseller platform have an extremely high uptime and the control panel, which h is basically, cPanel/WHM, is also known to be one of the best available in the market. You can get over 52 scripts and all can be easily installed with a click of a mouse.

Working with Linux has become extremely fast if your web hosting provide is having linux server setup on good configuration hardware. The Linux has become one of the preferred choices of hosting plan for users because it is comparatively cheaper than windows hosting plans and it is also convenient for both users and resellers.

Resellers selling Linux reseller plans don’t have to create multiple accounts that will help them to keep a track of their different clients. Since there are different user panels in Linux hosting at times it may seem that is very important to create multiple accounts but in reality it is not the case. In Linux hosting it is very easy to keep a track of the clients and it also helps you to save a lot of time.

Another important feature of Linux web space plan is that we can run any application, irrespective of the language, on it. This gives you an extra edge to run PHP or MySQL based websites as well as to run html, jsp, perl or cgi-bin applications. All these are found on the same server and are also operated with the same control panel. So what are you waiting for switch to Linux hosting plans and kick-start your web designing plans.