Could you give a list of companies who offer sub $10 resell package. There might be many around, but I need something trustworthy. And please don't advise "you get what you pay for". :)

I've found resellerzoom.com and incognitonetworks.com

A quick list will be appreciated.

Those are rare packages but I think there are ones on eBay but I cannot promise that they are reliable.

I don't know of any "good" companies that sell quality reseller hosting for $10 a month.. http://thenuke.net has some pretty good plans, not to mention that have some of the best support around when I was with them.. I left them to go dedicated, but they did a fine job.

I think $20 and up are what you are looking for, it's also smart to rack up customers before you start it just incase the first month, you don't go negative.

do not go to ebay, you will ge tonly very bad hosting form there
I would try resellerzoom.com, I have heard some good things about them

Check out the offers forum, you should be able to find something there, I see reseller deals all the time for under $10.

Originally posted by hanz
do not go to ebay, you will ge tonly very bad hosting form there

I think you are right. I've seen many complaints regarding that.

Offers posted in the forums don't seem trustworthy to me. I might be wrong.

SonataWeb.net (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=395953) has two budget reseller hosting plans.

$5.95 (750/15) and $10.95 (1.5/40).

Originally posted by hanz
do not go to ebay, you will ge tonly very bad hosting form there
I would try resellerzoom.com, I have heard some good things about them
I'll second the resellerzoom recommendation, I've been on their $5 plan for a few months and haven't had any problems. Extremely fast support, and I'm still at 100% uptime (at least according to siteuptime's every-30-minute monitoring).

Originally posted by RossMAN
SonataWeb.net (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=395953) has two budget reseller hosting plans.

$5.95 (750/15) and $10.95 (1.5/40).

I will endorse them as trustworthy too. Have been with them for six months....They are just superb

Also, there are plenty of hosts, some of them good, who offer below $10, two I remember are northtrex.com and bgfweb.com. Haven't used them, but interacted with their sales staff six months back and have seen some positive reviews on them.

A point of advice, dont limit you selection on price only, have seen on WHT, some companies growing too fast on the basis of price and later we have also witnessed their downfall within couple of months..

Originally posted by NeoGen
I will endorse them as trustworthy too. Have been with them for six months....They are just superb
I haven't been with SonataWeb for 6 months yet but I can see myself being a customer for life. I was recently chatting with Terry who apologized that it took 1 hr 26 minutes for a support ticket last Friday. We were chatting about cars and he brought this up himself. After apologizing he advised another support tech has been hired, to avoid this from happening again.

Then he said the following, which pretty much sums up his dedication and devotion to his clients:

Yeah, that wasn't good. Sadly some people are still impressed with 1 hour response times, but some of us strive for perfection.


http://www.defenderofthealliance.com/ is a domain hosted with my SonataWeb resellers account.

I'd like to see a tiny reseller plan in the sub $5 range with around 200-500 meg of storage and 2-5 gig of monthly transfer.

This would be ideal to set up a lot of tiny sites, see what works and then move the sucesses to larger non-resller hosting plans.

It's a lot more trouble to use hosting with add-on domains, and even them, I'm usually forced into a much larger plan to get the add-on feature.

Originally posted by Socrat
I'd like to see a tiny reseller plan in the sub $5 range with around 200-500 meg of storage and 2-5 gig of monthly transfer.

This would be ideal to set up a lot of tiny sites, see what works and then move the sucesses to larger non-resller hosting plans.

It's a lot more trouble to use hosting with add-on domains, and even them, I'm usually forced into a much larger plan to get the add-on feature.
Part of the problem with that, is that offering any kind of plan below $5 makes it hard to turn a profit. Quality support costs money, and when you offer accounts at below $5, it makes it so that you can really only have a customer submit one support ticket a month in order to break even.

Originally posted by gumbo
I'll second the resellerzoom recommendation, I've been on their $5 plan for a few months and haven't had any problems. Extremely fast support, and I'm still at 100% uptime (at least according to siteuptime's every-30-minute monitoring).

As far as I've learnt from different threads, resellerzoom servers have a good uptime together on an average. That means 2 servers may have 97% or 98%, while other 3 servers may be 100%. So on an average you have a good uptime to claim.

Personally I like resellerzoom and hostingzoom. But what if I am on the unlucky server with 97% uptime? :)

Try http://deasoft.com

I have a regular account with them and I'm very happy.

http://www.defenderofthealliance.com/ is a domain hosted with my SonataWeb resellers account. [/B]

That came up like a bullet, and then I remembered I've got Google Web Accelerator installed...

i am using

www.dailyhosting.net

they had some problems but situatin is good now...

http://www.vonetwork.net/reseller.htm

$9.95 for 2GB Space/20GB Bandwidth: been with them for 1 1/2 years now and I am very satisfied.

Originally posted by Ezmsg
As far as I've learnt from different threads, resellerzoom servers have a good uptime together on an average. That means 2 servers may have 97% or 98%, while other 3 servers may be 100%. So on an average you have a good uptime to claim.

Personally I like resellerzoom and hostingzoom. But what if I am on the unlucky server with 97% uptime? :)
Not sure if you meant 99.7% or 99.8% uptime but I can tell you we've NEVER had 97% or 98% uptime on any server.

Our network average is 99.8% for resellerzoom and the lowest its ever gone on any particular server was 99.2% due to a drive failure. Just wanted to clarify that up. Thank you.

I'm on the lookout myself, and came across quite a few:

allabouthosting.co.uk has several reseller plans starting at $4 up to $35 per mth.

8.95.com has one for $8.95 per mth, using DirectAdmin control panel, but no Installatron.

u2mike.com has their basic plan at $9.95/mth, with DA and Installatron.

Right now I'm quite sold with resellerzoom, from the positive feedback I've heard at WHT.

Originally posted by HostingZoom
Not sure if you meant 99.7% or 99.8% uptime but I can tell you we've NEVER had 97% or 98% uptime on any server.

Our network average is 99.8% for resellerzoom and the lowest its ever gone on any particular server was 99.2% due to a drive failure. Just wanted to clarify that up. Thank you.

I just gave my thoughts about average uptime fact. I said '2 servers may have 97% or 98%', not necessarily that your servers are having that kind of uptime. I also don't know how many servers you own.

99.8% uptime on average, and 99.2% uptime for the worst case, are simply outstanding for such a low price. And thank you very much for the info.

Regards.

I have been using http://2wdh.com for nearly a year - they have a package @ $10/mth 1.5G/15G Server uptime has been excellent. Overall support I would rate at excellent, but response time has been hit and miss from 15 minutes to 4 hours. On the other hand, in all my time there, I have only had to raise a total of 13 support requests, and I have between 10 and 20 clients.

When it comes to reseller hosting solutions, you definitely get what you pay for. I cannot imagine how any company would be able to actually deliver a quality reseller solution for less than $10 per month. There are a lot of fixed costs in running a reliable hosting business if the hosting company actually wants to do a good job. If a company charges less than $10 per month, it is likely that the company is skimping on something important in an effort to keep costs down. If you are serious about hosting, you need to look for reseller solutions that cost more than $10 per month.

Originally posted by Shiloh@Shanje
When it comes to reseller hosting solutions, you definitely get what you pay for. I cannot imagine how any company would be able to actually deliver a quality reseller solution for less than $10 per month. There are a lot of fixed costs in running a reliable hosting business if the hosting company actually wants to do a good job. If a company charges less than $10 per month, it is likely that the company is skimping on something important in an effort to keep costs down. If you are serious about hosting, you need to look for reseller solutions that cost more than $10 per month.

I think people don't look for cheap reseller plan always to resell hosting to others. Sometimes they themselves have a lot of less important sites, family sites, demo sites and like; and to host them they may find cheap reseller account very attractive. And also don't forget the learing aspect. People may want to try out hosting business without spending much.

Regards.

Originally posted by Ezmsg
I've found resellerzoom.com and incognitonetworks.com


Stay away from incognitonetworks. I've been with them for months. In the last 30 days, I have logged at least 50 trouble tickets. Today, email has been down 3 times, mysql down 3 times, ssh down and the server has been completely unresponsive at least twice. cpanel is regularly unresponsive with this host. FTP goes down regularly. The CPU utilization as I write this is 63.3%. Ummmm...that's not good, is it? This is very common with incognitonetworks.

The other day, over 1/2 of the messages to an email list of around 300 people were kicked back with the error of no route to host. Other email is regularly kicked back as the box is blacklisted. I can't send email to anyone on att.net, and many others. Yes, we have complained about this for a long time. We were told it was all taken care of...months ago.

mysql goes down several times each day. I file a trouble ticket and they tell me the box is rebooting. Checking 'uptime' I find this is not true. Our databases completely disappear on a regular basis. More trouble tickets. We have been told the server is receiving spam attacks, denial of service, and you name it. One of their techs even told me the reason our site was down was because we were using our own DNS servers and not theirs, even though our DNS is on their box. No changes...just down all of a sudden. We received an apology (again) but how often can a webmaster be subjected to disinformation before he blows?

When I first moved there, service and speed was good. In the last few months, I spend as much time logging trouble tickets as I do on my site. I have taken to using a Hotmail account, sending tickets to their emergency account because their site is often down.

Our stats show that we have suffered well over a 50% loss in visitors in the last month because of this.

Note: Just because you can ping a box doesn't mean the site is active. Make them explain what "uptime" means. It's an arbitrary term. Your server could technically be 'up' if it is generating heat.

Before anyone comments about excessive mysql sites, I am running a relatively small cpgnuke site, using cached pages. It's not my site causing the problems.

- Rod

I have logs of the trouble tickets and chat sessions.

strange that your first post was something like that... ehehe... what is your site?

My site? I'm glad you asked. ;)
Gentle Ministries
gentle dot org

FYI, my background is in large scale I.T. networking, LAN/WAN design and implementation and project management. I know what I am talking about when it comes to servers and networks.

i'm lookign for a new host too. so far am keeping an eye out on gazzin.com ($6.95, 3.5gb storage/55gb transfer) and turnkeyresellers.com ($10, 15gb storage/ 150gb transfer).

am monitoring up time for the next month to see how they do. monitoring pings, ftp, http, and smtp. think that should be a rough indication of what they're like...

I grabbed ahold of the $5.95 and $10.95 sonataweb reseller dealer, and I'm loving sonataweb already, only 5 days later.

Try http://www.gazzin.com and also http://www.zoneserv.com

zoneserv dot com/refund.html

Just a question. How do you recommend a host who posted this on their site?

I know it happens...but...there is a level of damage control to be considered before all is rosie again with the buying public, yes?

FYI, our site has been down again most of the day at incognitonetworks.com. I filed three tickets today. 5 Yesterday. It was so bad today that I couldn't sent email from myself to myself. Their standard explanation is "the server is getting mail bombed" Guess they don't know how to restrict access and know nothing about the "nice" command. Now, they don't even reply when I submit a ticket.

I don't care what they charge, a young child could run a server better than that. Pitiful service and worse explanations.

We are moving to a VPS with Servint where they care about their business and customers.

I have logs of my tickets and server performance. Incognito cannot dispute my statements.

Which of the companies mentioned here provide SSH?

Originally posted by Tebow
I don't know of any "good" companies that sell quality reseller hosting for $10 a month.. http://thenuke.net has some pretty good plans, not to mention that have some of the best support around when I was with them.. I left them to go dedicated, but they did a fine job.


I can think of atleast 5 - 10 providers that are "good" that sell packages $10.00 per month and cheaper. I can easily name a few "recommended" web hosting providers on (THIS) forum that have prices in that range.

GetYourHost.com
jodohost.com
incognitonetworks.com

... and many many more...

Opps... can't edit my message... i'll scratch jodohost.com off the list.. ;)

Seem like I am hovering between the choice of Gazzin and ZoneServ at the moment. VARHosting.net don't seem as reliable as a while back.

orin- i'd go for gazzin. have been monitoring them like a hawk for the past month cause i'm switching in mid june. so far their support is beautiful, very friendly- and i keep tryign to find a time that their online support is offline, whether it be 3am before i go to bed or 3pm when i'm bored, i always get a response within a minute or two. uptime is 100% since i started monitoring a while back.

zoneserv has gone down twice, for just a few mins each time, which isn't bad at all. what i don't like about them is the big jump between their first two plans- i mean they should have a $10 option rather than jump from like 6 bucks to 16 bucks!!

Originally posted by zimsters

zoneserv has gone down twice, for just a few mins each time, which isn't bad at all.

And that is according to?
SiteUptime(5 minute check) this month's uptime 99.941% (1 outage) caused by our DC - a traffic issue. PM me if you want a link to the statistics page as a prove.



Have a nice day.

uppanel.com (also 5 minute check) says so. i'll of course give you the benefit of the doubt though, doesnt' make much difference to me, long as it wasn't like 2 day blackouts!

Originally posted by zimsters
uppanel.com (also 5 minute check) says so. i'll of course give you the benefit of the doubt though, doesnt' make much difference to me, long as it wasn't like 2 day blackouts!

Well our second uptime resource also claims of only one outage, but never mind ;).

alright so there does seem to be a few close to your target. Lets even assume that a few have good support. The next question is will the company be around for awhile?

I think it takes an extremely creative mind to come up with a feasible reseller business that can offer those prices So I'd add the question of profitability to any host with such a plan.