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Choosing Your Web Hosting
Reseller Software
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As a web host
reseller, one of your most
important business decisions is
your choice of web hosting
control panel software. The web
hosting software you use will
save or cost you time, money,
and frustration.
What reseller control panel
features will reduce your
workload? What hosting software
programs are integrated with the
reseller control panel or work
with it? What website control
panel features will your clients
like?
In this article, we’ve compared
four quality web hosting
reseller software programs:
• Alabanza
• cPanel
• H-Sphere
• Plesk |
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All of these
reseller control panels come
with control panels for your
clients. They all have numerous
features — advanced email
management, web statistics, pre-installed
scripts, multi-language support,
and more. They all work on Linux
platforms, while H-Sphere and
Plesk also work with Windows.
According to the cPanel website,
a Windows version of cPanel is
in development.
Other features that set these
control panels apart are their
degree of automation, the number
of features and ease of use for
the end user, and the features
and ease of use for you, the
reseller.
Alabanza
When you become an Alabanza
reseller, you don’t just have a
reseller account — you lease a
dedicated server from Alabanza.
Alabanza owns the control panel
the server, and you resell
directly for Alabanza. If you
lease a dedicated Alabanza
server, you can create your own
reseller accounts. However, only
you can set up hosting plans;
resellers below you will be
limited to hosting plans that
you create.
Alabanza offers resellers a high
degree of automation with its
Domain System Manager (DSM),
which can significantly reduce
overhead and time spent on
routine tasks:
• Account creation
• Billing and invoice management
• Credit card processing
• Domain registration
• Email notifications
• Ordering fraud protection
Even novices
can sell hosting with this level
of automation.
DSM also integrates with
bulkregister.com for domain name
registration. It does not easily
integrate with other domain
registrars, though.
A key Alabanza feature that
resellers can offer their
clients is the Xpress Product
Suite, which provides web
development and email management
tools. The Xpress Product Suite
includes SiteXpress, a website-building
program that features over 300
templates and requires no web
design skills.
cPanel
For resellers and end users,
cPanel is known for its ease of
use and range of features.
cPanel’s collection of over 50
pre-installed scripts and
Fantastico auto installer help
clients set up their sites with
little web development knowledge.
A basic cPanel reseller account
comes with two separate programs
for resellers to manage their
business:
• WHM (Web Host Manager) is used
to create accounts and packages,
add and suspend sites, modify
passwords, view bandwidth usage,
park domains, install SSL
certificates, and perform other
administrative functions.
• From the reseller’s cPanel
control panel, a drop-down menu
takes the reseller to the
control panels for each of the
sites on the reseller account,
including the reseller’s site.
With the
addition of an optional program,
WHM AutoPilot, you can automate
account creation and suspension,
email notifications, and other
tasks. WHM AutoPilot also
integrates with common payment
gateways and has a helpdesk, an
invoice module, and other tools.
H-Sphere
H-Sphere is designed for both
Linux and Windows platforms.
Moreover, resellers can set up
plans for both Linux and Windows
and administer sites on
different servers from the same
control panel. The control
panel, actually a separate
server, also provides
administrative access to the
integrated helpdesk.
The H-Sphere control panel
server automates account
configuration, credit card
processing, domain registration,
and email notifications. It also
includes a built-in billing
module and supports over 20
payment gateways.
From the reseller’s point of
view, H-Sphere has a higher
learning curve than most other
control panels because of its
numerous features. For example,
when setting up a new plan, the
administrator has two pages of
features to choose from,
including setup and monthly
pricing for optional services.
Beginning webmasters may find H-Sphere
too complicated for their needs.
More advanced users, however,
appreciate the features and
control that H-Sphere offers the
end user. A key feature is the
ability to have control over
separate domains with multi-domain
hosting.
H-Sphere comes with the website
builder SiteStudio, which guides
users through a variety of style
choices and stores content
separately from the layout. No
HTML or FTP knowledge is
required.
Plesk
Plesk is known for its stability
and security. Resellers and end
users like its simple
navigation, its clean interface,
and its professional appearance.
It comes in versions for both
Linux and Windows platforms.
With Plesk, all users use the
same control panel but with
different levels of control:
• Server administrator
• Client / reseller
• Domain owner
• Mail user
Each level of the control panel
gives the user control of that
level and the level(s) below it.
Email users, for example, can
log into their mail user control
panel to change their password,
add autoresponders, and change
other personal settings without
having access to the domain
owner control panel.
Plesk handles SpamAssassin at
the mailbox level rather than at
the domain level.
This feature enables users to
whitelist or blacklist email for
each email address, allowing
each email user to have
individual settings.
SWsoft, the company behind Plesk,
also offers SiteBuilder, a five-step
website builder using pre-built
templates. SiteBuilder has over
300 templates in different
categories to choose from, and
users can publish their sites
without any HTML or FTP
knowledge.
If your Plesk reseller account
is with a web host that offers
HSPcomplete, you will have some
automation available with your
account, such as credit card
charges and email notification.
About the author:
About the author: Lois S. is a
Technical Executive Writer for
Website Source, Inc. http://www.websitesource.com.
Her established writing skills
coupled with experience in the
website hosting industry have
provided internet professionals
with marketing, product and
service ideas for many years.
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