As a business owner you will always be on the lookout for new technologies that will help make your website an online success – if you haven’t done so until now, you really should begin now.
As far as web hosting goes, you should always strive to make sure you have the services of the best in the business; one that will offer you a secure, continuous and reliable hosting environment. When you’ve found the provider that meets all your site’s requirements you will pay for the package that fits your budget and hope it all works out well.
But, a sure bet would be that should you get a second website – or any other number of them – you will start the whole selection process all over again and get a second account, and a third one… right? And chances are you will soon have a string of shared accounts corresponding with the number of sites you own.
Well, here’s a novel idea: wouldn’t you like to have all your sites grouped together under one umbrella account? Instead of having to deal with a number of separate accounts you would have one big account to administer all your sites from.
Lucky for you, there is one such way to do it. In fact, you might have heard of it but simply ignored it because you thought it was of no use to you.
We are talking about reseller hosting.
That’s right; what you thought was just an account that you bought from a hosting provider and then sold on to clients by partitioning the resources, could actually server as an umbrella account where you can bring all your sites together and manage them from.
To convince you of how great an idea using a reseller hosting account is, we will see some of the advantages you get by using this “hack.”
Increased Security
In case you haven’t noticed security is quite crucial a topic these days, and as the owner of multiple sites you run a higher risk of breaches and attacks.
If your sites were hosted on one shared hosting package it would take the breach of one single cPanel login to compromise the security of all your sites. In the case of reseller hosting, all of your websites have their own login credentials which means they will be safe should one account be compromised – with the exception of the reseller account being hacked, of course.
The More the Sites, the Cheaper it Gets
When you buy a reseller hosting account you get everything at a single, flat rate. Now, when you add your sites to the account that price is divided over the number of accounts you have under it. Therefore, the more you continue to add, the less you have to pay.
You will also have fewer worries regarding billing and expiry dates of your hosting package. You won’t need to keep track of which site will lose its hosting because its time has expired – there is just one date to look out for and one bill to settle.
More Hands On
One great advantage of being the owner of a reseller hosting account is that you get to be the administrator. This means you have more authority over how your sites are run. A reseller account grants you the privileges to go behind the scene and configure the settings as you see fit.
You can allocate more resources to one site that needs more of them and save wasting them on another one that doesn’t. You have more liberties at tweaking your configurations without having to consult with the hosting provider.
This means you will become your own support – no more having to wait nervously for a technician to respond to your queries. Of course, this also means you will need to have some know-how about how to going about working on a server. But that shouldn’t be too much of a worry – today, thanks to Google, you can find the solution to almost any technical problem and all it takes is a little researching.
Extra Features
A reseller account comes with more goodies than those on offer with shared hosting accounts. Take for example the ability to have your own personalized nameservers. You don’t have to use your hosting provider’s names and can assign all your sites to either have one major name or create and assign as many as you might require.
It really will look impressive to clients who want do a WhoIs on your domain names.
You can Still Make Money
Before you forget, the account is still a reseller account and that means whatever resources you have left over, you can sell on to other clients. At the very least, you will be able to cover all your running costs and pocket a little extra cash on the side.
And there you have it: if you have to run multiple websites, make sure you opt for one reseller hosting account, thereby ensuring you have the ultimate freedom to run them cheaply, efficiently and securely.
