I'm starting a small network service company and would like to add a web host\design service as well. I've learned alot of information from reading most of the posts here, but I have one question.

Is it a good idea to host my own company site through my reseller plan? I can't think of a reason this would be a bad idea, but I may be missing something obvious. This would also help me learn all the ins and outs before I go live and offer the service to others.

I'm not going to be selling web hosting over the Internet so I won't have a lot of volume. I just plan on hosting for local companies.

Your thoughts?

-Adam

I personally thiink it is a very good idea. Just because when I look at you site and to another site that you are hosting for and I see those aren't the samen servers in the same colo etc. I will start asking myself questions.

Such as, why doesn't he host his own site?
Are/Is his server(s) that f**ked up?!

I agree with starhost. I'm starting a hosting company and i'm going to put the support page/forums on another server in another part of the country so that my customers will be able to contact me if my server goes down.

Thats a good idea mlip129. If I have a customer site go down and they try and hit my site for help, and its down, that could look bad.

OTOH, if their site is down, and mine is still up they may ask why their sites are more unreliable.

I guess its a toss up...

-Adam

My suggestion would be to host your own site on your own server(or reseller plan), but make a backup plan so that you can instantly put another one up if your original server is down. (if you want this to work, make sure you use some reliable DNS server, don't just use your host's)

Peter

Our customers' dedicated servers and the server our main website is hosted on are separate. As stated above, your customers should be able to contact you in case of a network problem, etc, and their server is unreachable.

What is the best way to have the same site available on different server?

Should I have a seperate cheap hosting account thats always active, then I can move my site there in an emergency.

Moving a web site between hosting companies can get complicated though.

-Adam

You can either have a cheap hosting account around, or get one and upload your site. But this will only works if your site is static. If you have dynamic content, such as a support database, you will need to either back up often, or use a separate database server.

Peter

If you believe in the product you are reselling you should not have a problem hosting your own site on the same server/network :D

Originally posted by successful
If you believe in the product you are reselling you should not have a problem hosting your own site on the same server/network :D

I have only heard that good admin skill, good hardware, good network, .... add to uptime/reliability.

I have not heard that faith do the same to system uptime.

This is not about faith. How would you like the nuclear power plant administrator to say "we have faith in our system, there is no need for backup".

Peter

I have a related question...

If you host your main domain elsewhere, how does that work as far as nameservers? The reseller plans I've been looking into come with custom nameservers, but if the main domain is hosted elsewhere the nameservers wouldn't correspond to the main domain name... which kind of defeats the whole idea of having your own nameservers, doesn't it, if they're different than your main domain?

Yes, the name server needs to be hosted on a different network, as I have mentioned above.

You can either pay for service such as zoneedit.com, ultradns.com, everydns.net(free), or you can setup a spare server somewhere off-network.

When you main site is down, you can then set up your name server to point to your backup site.

Peter

Thanks Peter for the info. I'll check out those sites you listed.

-Adam