Hello,
I used to be a network admin for an ISP where we hosted sites for businesses. That was about 5 years ago. A lot has changed since then with the design of control panes, which it looks like it much better than setting things up manually and giving customers more than just an ip address with a username and pass. Control panels will give them access to everything through one view. Sweet.

I see a few different companies that have packages from Plesk, C-Panel, and Hsphere. Please give me your opinions on which ones offers more features out of the box. This leads me to my next questions.

I am wanting to host sites for people with access databases so I know I will need windows hosting. My question is why would I need linux hosting if I already have windows hosting? What would benifit me as a host if I had both.

The reason I ask is because a lot of people have just linux hosting, and there are a few that have both windows and linux, and even fewer with just windows option. Hsphers seems to be both windows and linux, but the others are either/or.

Any comments would be great.

Mike

Hsphere control panel has to be installed on a linux server then windows server can be added to use under the control panel. So you'd have to have 2 servers to offer hsphere.

I know you would have to have 2 physical servers, but what I meant was it would control both types in one panel.

I am not going to use my own hardware as of yet. I would have to start out with another host in a Reseller account. I am trying to decide which type of cp to go for for future use.

Thanks,

Mike

hsphere offer you all-in-on-solution for hosting *nix and windows accounts. you will use one reseller account with both option enabled.

http://hostingaccelerator.com HA (windows solution)

hsphere if your looking to do both