Webmaster usually start their web hosting business starting from reseller hosting and offering small shared hosting packages to their clients. Now webmaster follows a new trend (Overselling) for attracting innocent webmasters by offering them UNLIMITED Hosting resources though it’s not practically possible.  There are many webmaster who follow such lame marketing tactic of UNLIMITED RESELLER HOSTING for getting good business and more revenue.  Recently hardware cost have been lowered down many folds hence you can get a server for as low as $100/month which had adversely affected webhosting industry. Webmaster now get such cheap server and oversell smaller shared hosting packages at much low rate creating a stiff competition for other honest webhost.
Since long time such Webhosting Overselling business if grooming well and affecting overall webhosting industry. Using such cheap servers webmasters can easily setup smaller hosting accounts with UNLIMITED server resources and hence following Overselling hosting business. They pretend to offer you “Unlimited disk space” and “Unlimited data transfer” for just few dollars.  It is impossible to compete with such unlimited Shared Hosting providers who oversell “Unlimited web hosting packages” when you have a limited amount of server resources in your pocket. If anyone buys a Reseller Hosting plan which features 50 GB disk space on the server and 250 GB data transfer per month, they can create 10 shared hosting accounts, each of them featuring 5 GB disk space and 25 GB data transfer per month. So the reseller might try to sell these 10 accounts but it will be very hard for them to compete with their own web hosting provider because they can’t make the same “Unlimited” offer.

It’s always advised to avoid such Overseller webhosting service provider and unlimited reseller hosting service provider, as you never know when they change their hosting policy.

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There are many webhost who always try to grab attention of webmasters by advertising their reseller hosting plans as ” Unlimited Reseller Hosting ” packages. to be very honest it’s practically not possible for anyone to offer you such Unlimited hosting resources, it’s just a way of marketing to grab the attention of innocent webmaster who are new to reseller hosting world.

You should never go with such Unlimited reseller hosting service provider as you never know when you would be charged of using any excess server resources. There are many horror stories where webmaster had paid 10 times more as excess server resources hence it’s always better to be on safe side. Webhosting business is very competitive and hence all webhosting service provider always try to make most from their server hosting investment hence they are forced to comeup with such blackhat business tactic. We as clients should always take care that we don’t go with any such unreliable Unlimited webhosting service provider for better hosting experience.
In webhosting industry you will come across many webhost who advertise their hosting plans with unlimited hosting features so it’s advised to be away from such over seller webhost as you never rely on them for excellent hosting services.

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With your Linux Reseller Hosting package you would be getting WHM as admin control panel for your reseller webhosting account which will help you to create, setup and manage all your hosting accounts. You would be having WHM with Linux reseller. VPS or with a dedicated servers as your hosting account control panel through which you can easily administer your server, reseller hosting account.
For creating hosting account login to your WHM control panel >> Account Functions >> Create Account, make sure before you create an account on the server, you should create a “package”. A “package” determines how much web space, bandwidth, mailboxes etc, your customer can use.

Usually you would be offering your customers a range of choice for webhosting packages which are differing in allotted server resources.
To create a package, login to WHM, then using the menu on the left, and click on “Add Packages” under the “Packages” heading.

Once you have defined all your packages you can setup multiple hosting accounts under same reseller hosting package / VPS dedicated server using your WHM control panel Using above steps. Hence you can setup and can host any number of hosting accounts and can start with your webhosting reseller hosting business !!! You need to take that you don’t exceed allotted server resources for your hosting account.

Once you have created an hosting account you can login into cPanel for that particular account using http://IP Address:2082 (IP Address = Actual IP address of the server) or http://www. domainname.com:2082. cPanel is a end user control panel using which all users can easily manage their hosting account and websites easily. It’s most pospular and widely used website hosting control panel.

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Once your Reseller Hosting account is setup and you have all required login details like WHM/cpanel control panel details,  FTP details ,  nameservers details etc… then you would be creating hosting accounts for your customers using your control panel WHM and thus you can provide cpanel for all your clients.
The difference between your main Reseller Hosting account and all the other accounts, is that your main hosting account will be having Reseller Privileges and you would be having your own reseller interface called Web Host Manager (WHM) which you would be going to use for managing  your web hosting business, creating hosting accounts, set storage space and bandwidth limits, suspend/unsuspend accounts, and much more.

Hence WHM is a wonderful control panel for linux reseller hosting service provider. While creating packages, you’ll have to decide exactly what you want to provide in the web hosting plans you want to sell to your clients.

You’ll have to work on and will have to decide on following things :-

# Storage space and bandwidth to allocate to each account.
# Email accounts to allocate to each account.
# FTP accounts, Parked domains, Subdomains, Addon domains, and MySQL DBs to allocate to each account.
# Most important Cost for your web hosting packages.

Once you’ve decided all these factors, you may login to your WebHost Manager and setup packages. Packages options make creating new web hosting accounts much easier and convenient, as you already had pre-defining all the above variables, so that you only have to choose a package name when creating an account. That’s all you have started with your reseller hosting business.

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As a Reseller webhosting service provider you would be offering cPanel for your clients using which your clients can manage their hosting plan, can setup emails, FTP, addon domains account etc . cpanel seems to be the best control panel which is having huge number of tools and features which are very useful for webmasters. One of them is Mailing list which comes with cPanel.

Mailing option is incredibly useful for online businesses who wants to stay in touch with their customers by keeping them informed with regular updates regarding their products or services.  There are many different mailing list scripts are available for free as well as few are paid .
Hence if you are using  cpanel then you don’t have to worry about such mailing list as it’s already bundled into cpanel control panel for free.
The mailing script is know as Mailman in cPanel. Using this program you can create mailing lists with varying options such as contacts on the list, where the mail will be sent and much more.

Following steps will help you to add a Mailing list in Mailman from your cPanel control panel  :-

#) Login to your cPanel and click the “Mailing Lists” icon under the “Mail” category.

#) On the “Mailing lists” page, click the “Add Mailing List” link.
Next, enter a name for your mailing list and a password in the appropriate fields.  Make sure you confirm the password on the next line.

#) Choose the domain the mailing list will be used on from the list of options provided in the drop-down menu.

#) Lastly, click the “Create” button.

That’s all, you have your mailing list ready for use

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