How To Start A Hosting Company?

People generally find it difficult and confusing on how to venture into web hosting business

. Well, it is not that difficult and neither that easy, until you keep into consideration the following important aspects.

When you plan to buy a good reseller hosting plan, you can always resell hosting plans to your clients. You may start with first buying a 1 GB reseller package costing your about USD 10 per month and then upgrading it later when your client base increases. The rate may vary from one hosting company to another.

When it comes to hosting website, you must hire a designer to create your hosting website in a professionalised way. Many hosting companies offer free hosting templates coupled with their reseller hosting packages within which you only need to change the content inside the template and replace it with your product information.

Billing software is another important tool that should be installed on your web hosting website, so that your customers can place their orders and if required, renew it on time. This also helps in managing your clients orders properly. Online payment gateways too can be integrated efficiently so that you can also accept the payments via credit or debit card. Modernbill, Whmautopilot, Accounts lab pro and Clientexec are some of the most frequently used billing scripts which can be installed just on a click of a button from the cPanel.

Talking about payment gateway, yes it has become a must for every hosting company today to accept online payments. You may like to sign-up for a Merchant Account to accept online payments. Popular gateways include Ccavenue, 2checkout, Worldpay, Authorise.net, etc. Besides, you can also sign up with Paypal, to accommodate payment facility for those clients having an account with Paypal.

You must provide proper support to your hosting clients before they switch to your competitors. It would be advisable to have support software installed onto your website for the clients to open support tickets with ease in case of any issues or queries. Kayako Esupport, Cereberus, DeskPro, etc are few popular support scripts for you to consider.

Once your site is on line, you next step is to advertise your business in such a fashion that people can locate you in search engines, directories and other popular websites, with a click of a button. Also, you can buy advertising with Google Adwords to further boost your web presence.

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