Becoming a successful Web Hosting Reseller

Becoming a successful Web Hosting Reseller
Web hosting is an exciting first business venture for many people, and while it might sound difficult to begin with becoming a successful hosting reseller is actually a fairly simple process. In many cases, you don't even have to do anything apart from sell the services of an established web host through your own website.
It is especially appealing to web designers and developers as an addition to your existing services.
The first step to becoming a web host reseller is to find a web host who offers multiple website hosting accounts. By taking out a multiple domain account, you can use one domain for the development of your own site and then set up other domains to clients' websites. This enables you to pay a regular fee to the web host while charging clients any price you wish.

Web Hosting Provider, SpiralHost, Features

Web Hosting Provider, SpiralHost, Features R1Soft Continuous Data Protection

Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft, has welcomed European web hosting provider, SpiralHost, as part of R1Soft's Hosting Partner Program.Greg Bales, Managing Director of SpiralHost noted, ''Providing a sound data backup solution for our customers is very important as our company competes in the world market. With R1Soft's Continuous Data Protection, we are able to affordably deliver on our promise to do everything we can to safeguard our customers' data. Our Rest Easy data protection service has already proven to be an enormous success and we look forward to offering continually more competitive solutions as the needs of our customers change in time.''SpiralHost currently offers Continuous Data Protection to all customers as a free value-added service, dubbed Rest Easy. The data protection technology from R1Soft is unique in its ability to provide real-time backup of data, virtually eliminating the threat of data loss in the event of a disaster. Through the R1Soft Hosting Partner Program, SpiralHost will receive access to priority technical support from R1Soft, a variety of sales and marketing resources, and expert assistance on effectively deploying the data protection solution.Rest Easy data protection includes three separate backup schedules for each Shared hosting account: Weekly backups store eight restore points for two months; Daily Backups store 14 restore points for two weeks; and hourly backups store 48 restore points for two days. Customers may specify which files should be backed up. David Wartell, Vice President of R1Soft division, BBS Technologies, Inc. remarked, ''SpiralHost has proven its commitment to data protection by rigorously deploying our solution on a variety of levels, especially with its progressive set of backup schedules. We are excited at the opportunity to more closely work with SpiralHost to make Continuous Data Protection an important asset for their customers.''Shared Web hosting from SpiralHost starts at $8/monthly for 4 hosted domains and 1GB of Web space. Each plan includes a set of features for developers and businesses, including unlimited email accounts, domain aliases, and databases. All Shared hosting servers also support PostgreSQL, PHP, Perl, SSI, CGI, Python, Apache ASP, and a variety of Web applications.Founded in 2001 as a subsidiary of So Be It Web Services Ltd., SpiralHost is a leading provider of Shared Web hosting, reseller Web hosting, domain name registration, and SSL certificates. Based in England, SpiralHost serves individuals and businesses in Europe and North America. In addition to Shared hosting, SpiralHost offers Reseller Hosting, domain name registration, and SSL certificates. Founded in 2003, R1Soft is a provider of disk-based backup solutions. The company's customer list includes some of the world's largest hosting providers. R1soft products provide Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for over 85,000 mission-critical Linux and Windows servers worldwide. In November, 2007 R1Soft was acquired by BBS Technologies, Inc.