| Before we can begin to explain the reseller web | | | | With a dedicated server, your web pages will be |
| hosting scenario, we should first visit probably the | | | | much more responsive to your future web |
| most used web hosting solution available on the | | | | visitors and you need not worry about other |
| market, shared web hosting. Most that are new | | | | business owners (or small personal website |
| to the web plan arena don't realize that the cheap | | | | owners) optimizing your resources. You are, for |
| packages that are advertised for $10 and under | | | | the most part, in full control. Monitoring the web |
| are normally running in a "shared" environment. | | | | servers performance is still needed (as with any |
| So, what is this sharing all about? Well, basically, | | | | hosting plan), but whatever resources are |
| several users are sharing the hardware and | | | | dominated, you are responsible. |
| resources - basically many clients (unknown to | | | | Okay, so, let us take the dedicated web server |
| each other) are running on the same server. | | | | one step further. Let us create a scenario |
| If you thought that when you purchased a | | | | whereas you purchase a large web hosting |
| hosting plan that you were on your own server, | | | | package for your small, medium or large business |
| think again. It's simply more economical for hosting | | | | and find that your site is barely hitting the |
| providers to have client shared services and | | | | minimums for resource optimization. You still gain |
| hardware. And, usually this doesn't run into any | | | | the benefits of control over the server services, |
| particular problems. Every once in a while, one of | | | | but also have the ability to lease out some |
| the clients may goof up a script and optimize the | | | | resources to other businesses and "resell" the |
| servers resources for an extended amount of | | | | web hosting. You could have a $75 reseller web |
| time - causing obvious "lag" issues for the other | | | | hosting plan and lease a small portion to each of |
| clients also using that server. But, the top web | | | | your 5-10 clients and thereby have your entire |
| hosting providers have monitoring tools that can | | | | web hosting bill paid for. Additionally, you could buy |
| easily sense this and quickly bring the notorious | | | | larger reseller packages and (after little marketing |
| script to a halt. Believe me, it's happened to me a | | | | & promotion) resell 100% of the resources and |
| few times, albeit totally unintentionally. | | | | make a nice little profit each month. |
| So, again, shared web hosting isn't that bad for | | | | Yes, with the reseller web hosting, there are a |
| the personal website, perhaps a low trafficked | | | | few questions you need to respond to from time |
| blog or something small. But, for a business | | | | to time, but most of the responsibility is handed |
| website, especially if your main focus is selling | | | | by Your hosting provider. You simply only need to |
| products online, a dedicated web server (yes, it is | | | | enter the server control panel and setup the new |
| entirely your server as the name indicates) is the | | | | accounts. Then, your work is done. Basically, you |
| only way to go. | | | | are selling virtual real estate. |