I've been an Alabanza host for more than 18 months and have been fairly satisfied with them. Unfortunately, due to the slow economy and some personal technical and financial difficulties, I've had to close down my reseller program and give up the server.

However I plan set myself up as a reseller for another company and move my 25 regular customers to that server.

Until today, I was determined to find another Alabanza customer because I really like the Control Panel and many of their features. However, based on my research this week, I believe there are some real advantages to using CPanel and WebHostManager. Especially if I go with a company where I can custom configure my hosting plans.

I would like to ask this group the following:
- Why do you like or dislike CPanel & WebHost Manager?

- Can you give me the URL of a good demo for WebHost Manager? All the ones I found do not seem to work.

- How difficult is it to customize the "look and feel" of CPanel? I understand you can create "skins" for it.

- Does anyone know of a good "off the shelf" affiliate software for web hosting. Several of my resellers want to stay with me and operate in an affiliate mode rather than as a reseller. I want to be able to pay the affiliate a commission for every month that customer hosts with Roy Services.

If anyone wants to contact me about their reseller plans, just go to http://royservices.com/rsrfq.html and complete the form. We will check out your info and web site and respond accordingly.

Thanks in advance.

Hi, I thought I would add to look at plesks reseller opertunites. Depending on the host you go with, you can pretty much run everything, from adding domains, assigning ips. The demo at plesk.com might be a tad confusing(it was for me :) ) but take a look at what plesk can offer and its stability.

- Why do you like or dislike CPanel & WebHost Manager?
* Even if WHM/CPanel is constantly under development it offers currently more features than any other hosting software around and is easy to use.

- Can you give me the URL of a good demo for WebHost Manager? All the ones I found do not seem to work.
* WHM: http://demo.dnsvault.com:2086
CPanel: http://demo.dnsvault.com:2082
Username: demo. Password: account.

- How difficult is it to customize the "look and feel" of CPanel? I understand you can create "skins" for it.
* There are about 200 html files to be customized, but you can pretty much customize it 100%.

- Does anyone know of a good "off the shelf" affiliate software for web hosting. Several of my resellers want to stay with me and operate in an affiliate mode rather than as a reseller. I want to be able to pay the affiliate a commission for every month that customer hosts with Roy Services.
* Not sure what features you're looking for, but http://www.resourceindex.com and http://www.hotscripts.com are good places to start.