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12-10-2013, 09:04 AM #1Temporarily Suspended
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Resellers (small time), how do you manage your support?
For cpanel resellers, how do you manage your support if you're not available 24/7 (of course you would need to sleep)?
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12-10-2013, 09:13 AM #2Disabled
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You can hire someone who can work while you can't and pay him on per ticket basis.
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12-10-2013, 09:57 AM #3Newbie
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If you are one in the company then it isn't possible. You can use some monitoing tools to let you know about a problem, but I'm sure you can't answer on tickets any time.
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12-10-2013, 10:28 AM #4Disabled
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Hello,
You can give tech supporting contract whom you know very closely.
You will get many support providers in online but cant say that they must be trustworthy.
Else Better option is to hire someone.
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12-10-2013, 11:11 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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You can outsource ticket support, but for live support, it should be someone who can take action immediately upon a clients request.
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12-10-2013, 11:18 AM #6Disabled
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Hello,
I hope its better to hire someone.
This is the best solution for this.
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12-10-2013, 11:30 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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12-10-2013, 11:38 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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outsource them!
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12-10-2013, 11:43 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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As stated, outsource support if needed or simply don't offer 24/7 support if it's not something that you can provide.
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12-10-2013, 12:20 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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12-10-2013, 12:53 PM #11Junior Guru
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12-10-2013, 01:28 PM #12Disabled
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you have to hire some free lancers
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12-10-2013, 04:57 PM #13
Be honest with your customers - Your relationship with them will improve as a result. Tell them: "I'm here from 7am to 2am but I need to sleep a little - Here's my cellphone if you need me for something at night that's really urgent".
That way you'll keep the customers that you really want to keep.
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12-10-2013, 05:11 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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It depends if your only really looking at attracting your local market, if so then simply tell them truth that you can be available just simply phone you for emergency's during the night.
If I had a choice End User Support from reseller plan or outsource, then I would outsource.
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12-10-2013, 05:37 PM #15Moving the Web Forward
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Best advice so far, part of running a business means sacrifice. I think you will find that very few people will bug you at late hours of the night, especially if you have a stable service. Using verbiage like "Emergency 24/7 support available), you'll just have to make sure you pick up that phone (regardless of the time).
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12-11-2013, 12:34 PM #16WHT Addict
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Not promising 24/7 support to customers may be a solution. Guaranteeing instant or quick replies will turn into a lie. Cause you really might get sick, hospitalized, sleepy or worn out from time to time. A honest relationship with customers and sth like up to 10 hours ticket reply time as a promise can be useful.
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12-11-2013, 12:42 PM #17Newbie
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Unless you plan to employee/contract someone I would echo the other advice and not offer 24/7 support. Honesty with your clients is very important. As long as you have the monitoring in place for emergencies then most people are more than happy especially if you provide great support during your working hours. Also as a reseller the hardware aspect of your hosting should be monitored by your provider.
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12-11-2013, 01:17 PM #18WHT Addict
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I give 24/7 support to my clients, I have a live chat app on my phone which helps me to be online almost 20 hours. Most of people who contant me via live chat or calls are new customers So I dont mind.
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12-12-2013, 01:52 AM #19Temporarily Suspended
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Thanks for your suggestions. As someone said, for resellers, the responsibility of maintaining the server is on the provider since resellers don't have controls on the server. Are there any outsourcing that will only answer basic question and for server errors will log a ticket with the provider? How much does that usually cost?
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12-12-2013, 02:55 AM #20Temporarily Suspended
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You can use the outsource end-user support. There are many company provide the service for 24x7.
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12-12-2013, 03:03 AM #21Web Host Reviewer
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12-12-2013, 03:15 AM #22Web Hosting Master
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If you decide that your customers absolutely need a live response 24x7, there are a few providers that offer outsourced support tailored to resellers. Here are a couple providers that offer these kinds of plans:
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12-12-2013, 03:17 AM #23Web Host Reviewer
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12-12-2013, 03:50 AM #24Web Hosting Master
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We're a small team, all located in same timezone.
Servers is monitored 24/7 (on-call), but tickets is answered whenever they're discovered (usually within 4 hours at night) and 3 minutes during the day.
In the end, completely downtime, or service issues, we'll be called up by whatever tools we use.
We don't offer 24/7 support anyway at this point, because of the limited people in the company.
On the other hand, we never receive support requests that is emergency, if a service isn't down.
People can get their backups from the control panel, and restore the files they want.
Often tickets set at 'high' prio, is people that somehow managed to delete all their files, or breaking their site when updating, and surely didn't take a backup before that.
We can help restore, but thats not within a 5 minutes timeframe.
Resellers tho, is quite good at handling that themselfs anyway!
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12-12-2013, 05:05 AM #25
I agree - if people are aware of the hours you provide support, they can't moan later on if an email/ticket isn't answered within an hour so.
In your case, I would focus on automation. I.e. set up different mail boxes for different events. I.e. have server down/unresponsive messages get sent to your phone which of course are important to respond to ASAP. Create a lengthy self-service (i.e. a knowledgebase) etc. There's plenty of things you can do to optimize your business operations.
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