How to make extra money from your web host

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When starting a internet home based business you need to carefully select the correct web hosting company. Typically web hosting can cost you anything from £5.00 to $25.00 a month. Sometimes choosing the more expensive option is not a good idea especially when you are first starting out and you do not need all the bells and whistles. A better option is a hosting company that is flexible enough to let you start with a minimum grade at a cheap option, then as you need more requirements you will have the option to upgrade to a more premium service.

Another option is to consider using a host company that offers a reseller program.

What is a Reseller program?
In reseller hosting a reseller buys a Web hosting package from a hosting company and tries to sell it autonomously. The profit for the reseller is the discount or the commission he/she gets from selling an account.
If one refers potential customers to the hosting company, he/she can earn some money through the commissions from a hosting company. The other way is when the customer signs up with the company he/she can earn a small recurring commission until the customer uses the services.

Advantage of a Reseller program
One does not require any kind of technical knowledge for reseller hosting. For reseller hosting one only requires to have account management and Internet skills. It will be versatile if one has some sales and marketing experience, as then he/she can properly interact with his/her customers better.
Generally all the hosting companies provide and maintain all the hardware and software.
Whether you choose a web host with a reseller program or note , there are certain criteria that you must look at when comparing various web hosting companies

Set up fees
Space ( Disk space)
Traffic (data transfer)
Pop email accounts
Email alias (email forwarding)
Control panel
Sub domains
Perl
PHP4
SQL

I have written a brief explanation what each term means below.

Setup Fee: Initial fee charged by a host to create your hosting account.

Disk Space (Storage Space): The storage capacity for images, HTML files, audio files, video files, graphics, etc. A Web site planning to have a large amount of pages and/or planning to use a lot of images (or other large files) will need a greater amount of disk space.

Bandwidth (Data Transfer): The amount of data that you are allowed to transfer (usually monthly). Data = images, text, audio files, video files and everything else that a server transfers to a user’s web browser. Web sites that get a lot of visitors (and page views) need larger amounts of data transfer (or bandwidth).

POP3 Email Account: POP3 email allows all emails addressed to your domain to go to one place. If a host allows multiple POP3 email boxes, you can have multiple (separate) email addresses.

Email Forwarding: When email sent to different email addresses is automatically sent (forwarded) to another specified email address. For example, you could have multiple email addresses (i.e. info@domain.com, support@domain.com, webmaster@domain.com) that would all be forwarded to one address (i.e. whatever@domain.com) for easy checking and responding.

Control Panel: An online interface often used to facilitate Web site management and editing. Control panels often allow hosting customers to perform basic functions (make changes, check data, etc.) without contacting customer service.

Subdomain: A subdomain is a division of a Web site, a section set apart with a different sub-domain name. For example, subdomains of Web site “domain.com” could be “support.domain.com,” “clients.domain.com,” etc.

Perl: A programming language that facilitates data management and processing.

PHP: A scripting language. PHP commands are embedded within the HTML of a Web page and is useful in the arena of dynamically generated pages. PHP scripting can add numerous interactive elements to a Web site.

SQL: Structured Query Language. A database query and programming language used for accessing, updating, and managing data in a relational database system.

Finally,

You can always get cheap web hosting, but normally this is not a good idea, becuase if your web site is down, you will be losing hundreds of customers and you might not be aware of it. So why not get a good hosting company that has all the above criteria and offers you a chance to make a residual income from your hosting company - consider using HOST4PROFIT, just another good idea to make money online.