As the term indicates, a reseller is someone who buys server space from a hosting company and sells Web space to other end users. Generally, Reseller website hosting is done by small hosting companies that buy a reseller hosting plan and sells it to other people. However, there are many big players in this field who do the same thing, but on a much larger scale. Large companies usually take server space on rent from very large hosting services and sell this space to users.

When they sell to buyers at the regular rate, resellers can often pocket the difference. When somebody buys through the reseller, they get a commission. This is how resellers make money.

For example, when you buy a hosting package of 1,000 MB space and bandwidth, you may break it up into 10 separate accounts with each account having a disk space and bandwidth of 100 MB. For the initial purchase, you may have paid anywhere between $15 and $20. Suppose you sell each package at $10, your total profit would exceed $80.

Once a customer buys a hosting plan, the reseller is out of the picture. All further communication is between the buyer and the hosting company. In some cases, hosting companies may invoice buyers in the name of the reseller. This usually occurs when the reseller is a small-scale hosting company that needs to keep up the pretence of being the actual seller.

In order to make money, resellers have to double up as the sales agents of the website hosting company. Only this can attract customers to the hosting plan.

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If you are relatively new to the world of the Internet, you may wonder at the price difference between a shared Web hosting service and a dedicated Windows and Linux web hosting service. These days, many websites opt for shared Web hosting. The reason for this is simple. Shared Web hosting services are generally very cost-effective. But it is important to know why a dedicated hosting service is more expensive.

What are the advantages of a dedicated Windows and Linux server?

Shared Web hosting services are inexpensive because they make use of a single physical server to host more than a thousand web sites. Since the resources of a single server are shared between all the websites hosted on the server, the cost factor comes down. However, certain other factors like performance, reliability, disk space, bandwidth and security may also be compromised. Shared Web hosting services are recommended for those people who have minimal Web needs. Individuals and very small business enterprises can consider making use of shared Web hosting services.

In a dedicated server, your web site rests entirely on a single server. All the resources of the Web server work to keep your web site in good running condition. You will be leasing pre-configured, state-of-the-art equipment. Unlike virtual servers where a particular technology is used to share the Web server in such a way that each website seems like it has its own virtual server, in the case of a dedicated server, your web site actually has a Web server servicing it. Some dedicated hosting solutions also allow for hosting multiple sites on a single machine. In such a case, a world-class network connection is used so that continual network monitoring is possible to ensure the availability of the (Read more ...)

When you type a websites address into your browser it sends out a request to get that site on your Internet page. This request travels across the Internet to appropriate web servers and attempts to locate the web page on that server; you’re page will then load. So in order for your web page to appear on the Internet you need reliable hosting.
A web hosting company’s job is to provide server space to customers as well as web services and file maintenance for web sites which are owned and controlled by individuals or companies that do not have their own web servers.

The business of web hosting has become a very competitive one so finding an affordable web hosting is readily available across the Internet so it is a matter of finding the best deal for your website. It is important that you shop around when it comes to web hosting and research into various companies is advised so that you know the company well enough to do business with them.

Web hosting companies are made up of computes that are hooked up to the Internet 24/7. These computers are called servers and in order for them to function correctly they are assigned IP numbers so that they can be found by other computers, which are hooked up to the Internet. These servers are highly important to your website as it is on these servers that all of your web files are stored regardless of whether they are HTML files (web pages), graphic files, CSS files, JavaScript’s or whatever.

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Whether you use a shared server hosting or a dedicated hosting plan, your web site along with all the files associated with it reside on a single server. Therefore, in case of a problem on the server, your web site may experience outages. Web hosts generally have the technology and the backup to ensure that these outages never occur. However, in case your business requires 100% Web performance, then a failover hosting is your best bet.

Unlike in a shared server hosting service, in failover hosting, your web site and all the files associated with it are available on a number of servers. Since identical copies of your account are maintained across multiple enterprise class servers, you can be sure that your outage time will be minimal. The moment there is a problem with your primary Web server, the secondary or tertiary server in the failover cluster will take over. The technology in the failover system will detect the problem and rectify it while the traffic to your web site is immediately is rerouted to the next server in the cluster. Each of these servers is a high end server.

Failover servers are highly recommended in the case of high end, resource hungry web sites. This technology races the reliability factor of your web site to levels that have not been witnessed before. Additionally, this technology also improves the performance of your web site since all the resources of a single server are not shared between websites. With the failover technology, any queries to a database are routed to a dedicated database. This maximizes the resources on the main web server. The resulting improvement in performance and speed is quite apparent in large websites.

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When your website grows out of the facilities provided by shared hosting services, the next natural progression is towards using Virtual Private Servers (VPS), aka virtual dedicated servers. virtual dedicated server use a special kind of partitioning technology that successfully creates several ‘virtual’ servers out of a single physical server. Every web site that is hooked on to a virtual dedicated server has a completely separate server space. The server behaves as if it was dedicated only to that website. Through this technology, hosting companies are able to create multiple servers using a single physical server. This reduces costs while providing maximum benefit to clients.

Virtual dedicated servers offer a number of advantages to the websites they service. Through this service, a website has full root access to the server. That means, you can do any one of the number of activities to customize your server. You may install software, add and update packages, host multiple sites and change server configuration. At the same time, security is never compromised because other clients do not have access to your section of the server.

Virtual dedicated servers are very attractive to website owners because they are a happy via media between shared hosting and dedicated hosting. Many websites, particularly fledgling e-commerce sites, may have outgrown shared hosting but may find dedicated hosting too expensive for their needs. In this case, virtual dedicated servers provide all the facilities at a fraction of the cost.

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