Reseller Hosting: Maximize Profit at Minimum Expenditure

 

Are you thinking about starting a business as a reseller of web hosting services? Then Reseller Hosting is an ideal option for you, as it lets you provide hosting services without having to invest extensively in the infrastructure required for running a full-fledged web hosting business. Moreover, it saves you from all the hassles that are part of running any professional web hosting company. Curious to know more? Join in!

Reseller Hosting

In reseller hosting, the service provider i.e. the reseller rents out web hosting services, which include server bandwidth, disk space, CPU, RAM, etc. to his customers and in turn earns profit on it. As a service provider, you can have a particular number of customers, based entirely on the server space and resources that you have purchased from the website hosting company that has provided the reseller hosting plan. In reseller hosting, the user of this service, uses the hard drive space and bandwidth allotted to him to host third-party websites. The services of the host are purchased wholesale and are subsequently sold to customers for a certain amount of profit.

Reseller hosting lets you provide service to your clients by reselling the hosting that you receive, using your very own brand name. As a reseller, you have the option to either sell your hosting packages at the same price as that charged by your service provider or make plans available at prices that are set exclusively by you. It goes without saying that the more plans you sell, the higher will be your profits from reseller hosting. Hence, it is important to opt for the most reasonably priced reseller hosting plan from a thoroughly professional and reputed reseller hosting service provider, such as HTS Hosting.

Every web hosting company will have different reseller hosting packages. However, certain features that are provided in reseller hosting plans are common among different web hosting service providers. These include unlimited bandwidth, disk space, unlimited domain hosting, cPanel/WHM control panel, white label branding, customized account and website management, additional features (mail and security tools), etc.

In a nutshell, the service of reseller hosting enables you to avail a reseller web hosting plan, rebrand it and finally resell it at higher prices. Reseller hosting can be Linux Reseller Hosting or Windows Reseller Hosting and is made available through various packages that cater to different hosting and budget requirements.

Benefits of Reseller Hosting

Starting a full-fledged web hosting business can be quite complex, challenging and capital intensive. It entails building and maintaining all the necessary infrastructures, including but not limited to web servers, that are required for web hosting. Any reliable web hosting business is rendered functional by the required software stack, upstream providers, proficient staff that works round the clock, billing solutions, backup systems, etc. Engaging in web hosting as a reseller of this service makes the business quite convenient as it removes all the complexity that is usually part of hosting. Thus, reseller hosting helps do away with the usual hassles that are encountered while running a web hosting company.

It is less capital intensive than web hosting and enables you to reap profits from the business of web hosting at minimum expenditure as you do not need to invest in acquiring, setting up and maintaining the infrastructure that is required for this purpose. This ensures that you spend minimum with regard to the operation of your hosting business and also ensures almost no capital investment for you. Additionally, you are fully equipped to sell efficient hosting services (disk space) to your clients at the rate that you prefer and ensure a recurring revenue stream for yourself through your reseller hosting business.

With all the benefits that reseller hosting has to offer, it presents a viable business option to many established business owners as well as budding entrepreneurs. Regardless of whether you are the former or the latter, you need to consider some important points for establishing a successful reseller hosting business. These are mentioned below, in no particular order.

·         Thoroughly research the market before opting for a website hosting company that offers your chosen reseller hosting plan.

·         Take into account your hosting requirements and choose a plan accordingly.

·         Configure the technical specs of the hosting packages that you intend to sell and set your prices in accordance with the profit that you want to gain.

·         Devise appropriate marketing strategies for your reseller hosting business.

·         Ensure that web traffic is driven to your website effectively and sales get boosted.

Professional Reseller Hosting Service provider

As a reseller, you would be dependent on the infrastructure and the quality of service of the web hosting company whose Reseller Hosting plan you have availed. That is why it is extremely important to choose a website hosting company that provides all the important features/support that are needed for the seamless functioning of your reseller hosting business. Let us run you through some of these features.

·         Server Bandwidth – Bandwidth refers to the quantity of data that is transferred to and from the web server in a give time. As a reseller, if you are hosting sites that receive high web traffic, then you will require higher bandwidth. You should consider your bandwidth requirement and opt for a reseller hosting plan accordingly.

·         Server RAM – The ability of your server to process files has to do with the RAM. Hence, the more the RAM of your server, the greater the number of files that it can serve instantaneously.

·         Server Storage – The space that is available to you for storing your website’s files is referred to as disk storage. Limits can be set by resellers on the amount of disk pace that each of their customers will receive.

·         Server Speed- An essential feature of any sought-after hosting plan is the availability of fast speed. Hence, you need to ensure that your reseller service provider prioritizes delivering speedy web hosting service.

·         Control Panel – The availability of a user-friendly control panel goes a long way in ensuring the effectiveness of any web hosting service.

·         Proficient Technical Support – Technical support that responds quickly and resolves issues swiftly, contributes significantly in ensuring the overall popularity of any web hosting service, including reseller hosting.

Now that you are equipped with all the basic knowledge that is required to begin your journey as a successful reseller of web hosting, all you need to do is avail the service of a professional and reliable web hosting company, such as HTS Hosting. High uptime, fast speed, unlimited website hosting, unlimited database, unlimited email accounts, unlimited bandwidth, dedicated IP address, powerful security, 24*7 technical support and much more are included in all our Reseller Hosting plans that are highly affordable.

The Process of Moving a WordPress Site to a New Domain

As an expert provider of the service of domain transfer, HTS Hosting has very conveniently migrated innumerable sites to new domains, including many WordPress sites. That is why if you are looking for information regarding moving your WordPress site to a new domain, then we are well equipped to provide all the information that is needed for this purpose. With regard to such a move of your WordPress website to a new domain, the comprehensive information that has been provided here will ensure that you attain your aim without having any significant impact on your site’s SEO rankings.

Domain Names and Domain Transfers

What is a domain name? It is a string of text mapping to a numeric IP address. This important part of the Internet infrastructure serves the purpose of enabling access to a website from a client software. The address of a website that is typed by a site visitor in his browser URL bar in order to access the website, is this very domain name. A network domain is usually identified by a domain name. An IP (Internet Protocol) resource is also represented by it. Domain names are meant for identifying Internet resources and use text-based labels, which prove to be easier to memories than the corresponding numerical addresses that are used in the Internet protocols.

It is the rules and the procedures of the DNS (Domain Name System) that guide the formation of domain names. Any name that gets registered in the DNS is essentially a domain name. Domain name registrars administer the registration of these domain names through their publicly offered services. The organization of domain names happens in subordinate levels, known as subdomains, of the DNS root domain. TLDs (Top-level Domains) are the 1^st level set of domain names. gTLDs (Generic Top-level Domains) and ccTLDs (Country Code Top-level Domains) are included in top-level domains. The second-level and third-level domain names are below the top-level domains in the DNS hierarchy. It needs to be mentioned that labels in the DNS are not case-sensitive. Hence, these can be written in the capitalization method of one’s choice. Usually domain names are written in lowercase. In the context of domain names, a fully qualified domain name has all the labels completely specified in the hierarchy of the DNS.

Domain names, which are used for the purpose of establishing a unique identity, are often referred to as domains. When a domain is transferred, the designated registrar of the domain name gets changed. Post the completion of the process of domain transfer, all the relevant information with regard to the domain and the registrant is maintained by the new registrar. One needs to be aware of the fact that a domain name has to be registered with a registrar for a period of 60 days or more, prior to it being transferred.

Now that we have provided information on domain names and domain transfers, let us run you through the process of ensuring an easy move of a WordPress site to a new domain and that too without impacting the SEO in any significant way. But before that let us touch upon WordPress sites.

WordPress Sites

WordPress, which is a web publishing software can be used for the creation of websites as well as blogs. In the simplest terms, WordPress is the operating system of a WordPress site. It is versatile, user-friendly, free and open source and enables the functioning of your WordPress site as well as enables the editing of the site’s content and the creation of new posts and pages. It ensures that the WordPress site is accurately displayed on all devices.

In order to build a full-fledged website with WordPress, all you need is a domain name, which is the address of your site and a web hosting service provided by a web hosting company, such as HTS Hosting.

HTS Hosting not only provides hosting services but also services related to domain registration and domain transfer. HTS Hosting excels in providing affordable and efficient hosting plans for Linux Shared Hosting and Windows SharedHosting as well as for dedicated hosting, reseller hosting, cloud hosting, Managed VPS (Virtual Private Server) and Self-managed VPS. HTS Hosting offers value for money hosting plans for WordPress hosting that is pre-configured for hosting efficiently a WordPress site and caters most effectively to the security and performance needs of such a site.

Process to Move WordPress to a New Domain

The process of moving a WordPress site to a new domain entails five steps, which are mentioned below-

1.    Your WordPress site’s Duplicator package’s creation

2.    Creation of a database for the new domain name

3.    WordPress’ unpacking on new domain

4.    Permanently setting up 301 redirects

5.    Notifying Google regarding the change

Let us proceed with providing information on the appropriate way of moving a WordPress site to a new domain name, along with setting up 301 redirects and subsequently notifying search engines. It needs to be clarified here that the information that is being mentioned here is regarding switching a domain name and not regarding moving the WordPress site to a new web hosting company.

For the sake of making things simple to understand, we will consider earliersite.com as where your WordPress site has been set up and latestsite.com as the one to which migration has to take place. It is also being assumed that you already have an account related to web hosting and that the web hosting control panel that you use is familiar to you. The knowledge of using FTP is also required. Now let us elaborate on the individual steps of this process.

Step 1 – Creating WordPress Site’s Duplicator Package

The first step of the process of moving a WordPress site to a new domain involves the creation of a full backup of the WordPress site. For this purpose, you can easily use any of the WordPress backup plugins that are available. The one that will be discussed here is used for both, backups and migrations. This free plugin is Duplicator.

The Duplicator plugin needs to be installed and activated. This has to be done on your old domain name. Upon activation, a Duplicator menu item will be added by the plugin in your WordPress admin. Next, you need to click on the Duplicator menu. Post that, a new package has to be created by clicking on the create button. Click on the Next button to continue. At this stage, the website duplicator wizard will be run by the Duplicator. Initially some tests will be run by it to ensure that everything is in order. Click on the Build button when you find that all items are marked Good. Your WordPress site’s duplicator package’s creation will now be started by the plugin. The time taken by this process will depend on the size of the website. Download options for Installer and the Archive package will be visible once this process finishes. Click on the One-Click Download link in order to download both the files to your computer.

A thorough copy of your website is in the archive file. This aids in moving a WordPress site to another domain name. The installer script unpacks the archive file for automating and running the migration.

Step 2 – Creating a Database for New Domain Name

A database is needed for unpacking WordPress on the new domain name, prior to carrying out the move. This step needs to be skipped if a database has been already created. Visit the cPanel dashboard of your hosting account in order to create a database. Next you need to access the Databases section and subsequently click on the icon, MySQL Databases. A field meant for creating a new database will be visible on the next screen. You need to name your database and click on Create Database. A new database gets created by cPanel at this stage. Next, you need to access the MySQL Users section and provide a username as well as password for your new user. Click Create a User. New user has been created and isn’t yet permitted to work on the database, which needs to be changed.

Access the Add User to Database section. Select from the dropdown menu, the created database user. Next select the database. Click Add. Your database is ready for the purpose of moving your WordPress site to the new domain name. Do not forget to take a note of the database name, username as well as the password, as this information will come in handy in the next step.

Step 3 – Unpacking WordPress

In order to unpack WordPress on the new domain name, the earlier downloaded Duplicator files need to be uploaded to your new domain name. You should use an FTP client to connect to your domain name. When you get connected, you should ensure that your website’s root directory is totally empty. Post that, the archive and installer files can be uploaded to the root directory. When both the files have been uploaded, WordPress can be unpacked.

Now you need to open a new browser tab and visit http://example.com/installer.php

The term ‘example.com’ has to be replaced with your new domain name. This launches the Duplicator migration wizard. The installer looks for the archive file. Check the checkbox for terms and conditions. Click Next. You will be asked by the installer to enter your WordPress database information. Localhost will be your host. Enter the database’s details that had been created for your new domain name. Post that, click Next. Your WordPress database backup will be unpacked by the Duplicator, from the archive into your new database. You will be asked to update site URL or Path. You need not make any changes. That is because the URL of your new domain name as well as its path gets detected automatically. If that doesn’t happen then the URL could be changed to your new domain name. Click Next. The migration will be completed now by the Duplicator. Click Admin Login to access your website’s WordPress admin area on the new domain name.

Step 4 – Permanent 301 Redirects’ Set Up

When a permanent 301 redirect is set up, it proves to be important in terms of both, the user experience and SEO. This step enables the automatic redirection of users and search engines to the new domain name. Use FTP to connect to your old site for setting up a permanent 301 redirect. Then edit the .htaccess file. It is located in that directory which contains your wp-includes or wp-admin folder. Post opening the .htaccess file paste the below-mentioned code at the top.

#Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.latestsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

It needs to be mentioned that ‘latestsite.com’ needs to be replaced with your new domain name in the above-mentioned code. Once the changes have been made, you need to visit your old domain name. You should be automatically redirected to the new domain. If that doesn’t happen then the redirection has not been set up properly and there is a likelihood that your server doesn’t support the rules for redirection. In such a situation, you need to seek the support of your web host for getting RewriteEngine turned on.

Step 5 – Notifying Google

Last but not least in the process, is the step of notifying Google about the change of address as you have moved your WordPress site to a new domain name as well as set up redirects. This step enables Google in finding the new domain name quickly for it to be shown in search results.

Add your new domain name to the Google Search Console. Once the new site has been added, switch to Google Search Console’s old version. Post that, switch to your old domain name. Next, click on the gear shaped icon in order to launch Change of Address tool. The Google Search Console will provide a step by step wizard on the next screen for submitting your request for change of address. You will be asked to select your new site from the dropdown menu. Click Check for testing 301 redirects. Next, you need to confirm verification. As the last step, click Submit to send your request for address change.

A public announcement should be made about this move. Hence, do not forget to notify the users about the move to the new domain name, despite the 301 redirects serving their purpose. Now you are well equipped with all the required information regarding moving your WordPress site to a new domain name.

 

Picking Up a Good Web Host for Your Business Website

Generally, a business owner wants a basic web hosting that works. However, in order to have a successful business online you need to pick up a web host that suits your needs.   

To consider them good there are a few things that a web host must have, therefore here are a few so you’ll know what to look out for.

1.  Speed - It could cost you thousands or millions in lost potential sales if your web hosting is slow to respond. A fast web host that can at least match Google’s benchmark of 200ms can work wonders.

2.   Understanding targeted audience - Make sure to pick up a web host which responds on time in your audience’s region as you need to get web hosting that responds to requests from your targeted audience FAST .

3. Price- Strike a balance between low prices and good web hosting. Opt for a host which can provide you with the features that are required at a price you are comfortable paying!

4. Customer service - It’s nice to have a team of experts dedicated to helping you solve your problems as complications may occur while dealing with websites. Make sure you choose a web host which has a proven track record in customer support.

5. Uptime guarantee - If your site constantly goes down, it will be useless to you and your audience. Look for a web host which provides at least 99.8% uptime guarantee.

6. Security - You’ll be leaving your website and data wide open for attacks if your web hosting has poor protection against hacks and malware. Go for a web host having a strong track record in security, hacking protection and malware.

Tired of looking for a Good Web Host? Here’s where you need to stop your search as HTS Hosting is only one solution to all your hosting needs. For more details you can visit @ https://www.htshosting.org 

Understanding Web Hosting and its Functioning

What is Web Hosting?

In layman’s language, web hosting is a service in which a web host provides storage space for a website or an application on the server. This can be accessed by other computers connected to the internet once a website is available on the internet.

How does Web Hosting works?
A web host is a company that rents out services and technologies to host websites present over the internet. User can access  the website it by typing in your web address (domain name) on their web browser once the host company  begins hosting your website. The computer of the host connects to the server when the website is hosted once they start doing it.

Choosing the right web hosting package:

Several types of web hosting options available. Ask yourself the following questions if you want to know which ones would be right for your business

First you need to determine what kind of website you plan to host online- foe e.g.  a blog, an ecommerce portal or a news website.  This will let you determine how much web traffic is expected and how much robust the infrastructure is required to host your website.

Define the goals of your website? How fast do you wish to see yourself expanding your business online?

How much hand-holding is required?

You need the following answers will determine:

1. Bandwidth

2. Storage space

Then, determine whether it is important to have a root control of your server?

Also estimate the cost that how much are you willing to spend or need to spend?

Knowing which web hosting provider to associate with:

• In the following area, investigate their performance or claims:

• 99% uptime guaranteed or where are servers of the company located?

• Number of years of experience in the industry is the best way to determine credibility

• Number of clients they have served and in which locations do they have presence.

• A more factual idea of the company’s reputation can be obtained from online reviews and testimonials.

• 24X7 support is offered by the company with trained personnel to assist.

• A web hosting company also offer you other related services on the web such as security, email and backup services.  Because getting all the services at a single place will help you reduce time and effort.

• One should also look at Security considerations and Backup services

• Mobile access is available or not?

HTS provides Best hosting Services that can help you get the best in class web hosting services. You can visit our website to know more www.htshosting.org.

What to Choose between Cloud server and Dedicated Server with Best Web Hosting Company

While you are making a good point of view on hosting various type of server, you should be well versed with both type of server, they are similar to an extent but very strictly different from one another. Keeping in view they are different in terms of disk availability for business and many more features.

Cloud Server	Dedicated Server
It is a virtual server with providence of high scalability with that of additional resources to dedicated services	It is known to be a physical server with the availability of dedicated hardware.
In this the resources are shared with the same set of platform provided companies	The resources are not shared with any other customers.
In this the hardware is with the cloud hosting Company	All the hardware are allocated to you only
Here the security is there but to an extent	Data is extremely secured
It is suitable for small and medium size business	It is designed for large scale business only
The root access is given	The root access is given
The configuration is highly scalable	The configuration is not scalable, because in this dedicated server is used
Cloud server have the ability to shared storage	This server also has the shared storage facility
It is up to you whether you want to insert the graphics, or image content	Here it is totally depending upon the requirement of your business if you need not any graphics then you will ask for the space availability accordingly.

It hardly matters whether you are owning a website or not because what matters is the type of hosting you are acquiring. Whether you are choosing the cloud server hosting you will require the best web hosting company to allocate you the resources for it. And if at all you want to use the dedicated web hosting, then being the owner you will use anyway the specifically designed hosting.

If we talk about dedicated web hosting you need to customize this hosting as per your requirement whereas cloud server hosting is prepared to use because you just need to choose a package as per your specification. In comparison of pricing, Cloud server is much more reasonable as compared to dedicated web hosting because it is quite a costlier hosting, in terms of you use your own infrastructure with all the additional hardware and various other tools.

So, you must go through this article once very carefully before making a selection. Highly recommended best web hosting company. Feel free to contact us at HTS Hosting toll free number @ 1-800-123-8156 and you can also drop a mail to us on our mail id at support@htshosting.org. Get connected with our chat experts so that they can guide you instantly and you can continue with your clients.

Learn to Enter into Tech Oriented Benefits with Best Cloud Hosting Company

The thing we are talking about is cloud hosting company, but you must keep in mind all the latest technologies for making the cloud business onto web. The cloud hosting has become so popular that it is giving an amazing lookout to your business. When you access virtual hosting you usually think of choosing the cloud server for your business.

Even if you are not a tech based person you can still understand the technical terms used in this business. If you are the owner of best cloud hosting company then you can give only the service which the client is asking and you will not even ask for the extra charges. As the client who will be connected to you will give you the response as per the client review and after reading the policies. Thus, you should include all the single terms and agreement very carefully so that you can attract more and more client.

If you are the server host of your business and if at all some extra resources required you can in future add them to your ease. The server who are using the cloud web for themselves might get attracted with the service by keeping the pricing in their mind, you may be amazed to hear that this perfectly suits for all type of business requirement. If at all a single hosting company is not meeting your requirement then you may change the cloud host for your business so that it can provide you the tools and service you want for your business. The only limitation in cloud hosting is that it shares the web space with many other client but every individual client have their own admin host so that no one can alter your business web space. A complete security is also given in this if at all the system gets crashed and you have seen the loss of data or damaged data then your business, with the help of cloud hosting your data is stored on the cloud which could never be lost and you can bring back the data once you got the recovery in your system.

Hope, you are satisfied with the content delivery. If at all you are still covered with variety of questions you can simply contact us at best cloud hosting company toll free number @ 1-800-123-8156 at HTS Hosting and you can also drop a mail on our mail id at support@htshosting.org. Stay connected with our experts by joining the chat option available on our site.