so i am setting up a new company in egypt (i am english) the company will sell other peoples services so i will just be a sales guy/front man, i plan to resell web design, hosting/domains and seo. all of these will be outsourced. i have suppliers in mind for all these services but i am getting a bit tired of the options for hosting/domains, i thought it was easy but the more you look into it....

first godaddy then hostgator then resellerclub then i found your forum and lots of questions about bandwidth and mySQL etc etc. who is a real company and who is reselling for someone else cPanel etc etc.

i just plan to host and sell domains to people whose sites i get designed. does anyone have any easy answers?

thanks

rog

rog,

Only advise i can give you is to search for a solid company which is helping you and your customers not matter what. Because in the end, when your clients sites are down, they will blame you for it.

A good relation between designer and webhost is a must!

Other then that you should set up some specification on what you need, you are on the right path by finding about resellers and hosting companies, and those who run the server from their bedroom.

Hope this helps (probably not, because finding the web hosting company which fits you is never easy!).

Good luck!

There are lots of good reseller in this forum, start with entry level reseller program, as basically you will host sites which are designed by you.

Well,

This is not something that you can decide in a minute. It really need agood homework to decide the host to go with. For that you have to research the forums and gather as much info as you can.

To begin with, you need to decide how much disk space and bandwidth you will require.
This is important because, you will be able to see different types of packages with different prices. For example, you can see hosts offering few hundred GB of disk space with a few $$. this is just overselling or I would say massive overselling.
But in the end, you will get for what you pay. So when you go for a cheap host, you will have to compromise on something else and in most cases it will be reliability.
So yo have to decide how much is your budget. So go for a host with a decent pay structure.
Also as you are starting, go with a small plan with a good host. But make sure they have good upgradable paths so that you can upgrade your plans as you grow.

ok to make it easier for suggestions, to start out i want to invest as little as possible so need to have a private labelled free! website provided by the hosting/domain company which i will link to from my main site.

the reason i liked resellerclub the private site provided looks good web 2.0 style, is low investment 199USD and automation, i dont want to do anything except for take cash orders from my local clients, but need the back up of the free information provided by these reseller sites.

i dont believe i'm going to be the next worldwide internet millionaire i just want to set up a small local operation to give the main competitor here a wake up call and maybe make me some extra pocket money (i'm 34 yrs old so am i still allowed to use the term 'pocket money'?).

i have someone who is designing the 'launchpad for these reseller agreements but just need to confirm choices on the back end.


ps is it possible to 'go' dyslexic? i just had to correct so many typing mistakes!!!

i dont want to do anything except for take cash orders from my local clients

does anyone have any easy answers?
Not really, but one thing you could do is to take a look at your direct competitor, and assess the quality of the service he's providing. Then outdo him, if possible, at lower prices.

Godaddy's offer for example may seem facile. You just plug everything in, and you're ready to go, offering lots of different services. But does Godaddy provide the level of service that your end users would be after?

You should perhaps try the service out yourself first, before you offer it to your customers, so that you know its eventual limitations and find solutions/workarounds.

so have decided to go free with resellerspanel just to start will let you know how it goes when i reach my first million, ha ha :)

thanks for the responses