Selling web hosting is a very lucrative business and the ROI for a successful reseller is an attractive proposition for many entrepreneurs. For only £18.99 a month (with us:)) anyone can resell web hosting packages at prices and specifications of their own choosing. If a reseller creates a package priced at £4.99 per month (which is cheap) they only need 6 customers to break even each month, and then each new customer beyond that becomes a profit.

But this all relies on a reseller being able to attract traffic to convert in to customers, and that is the tricky bit. Search engines are most sites’ primary source of traffic, and one of the most important ranking factors for a high position is the quantity and quality of links pointing to a domain name. If you have aspirations of setting up a dedicated web hosting business your marketing strategy must include search and link building. Here are a few ideas to apply, some are quick wins and others are medium to long term commitments.

Quick wins
CSS gallery submissions
CSS and web design galleries are a great source of traffic and incoming links but there are literally thousands of them to consider. There is a solution with CSS gallery submission services which will do it all for you (for a fee). The three I am aware of that have a good depth and breadth of sites on their list are http://www.thecssgallerylist.com/, http://galleryrush.com/ and http://www.cssgallerysubmission.com/.

Online press release
Announce your launch, promotion or new product through an online press release to raise both awareness and build incoming links from web hosting news resources. Generic PR distributions services such as prweb.com ($200) are picked up by web hosting news publishers and http://www.pressadvance.com/ specialises in distributing web hosting news ($85) and will even write it for you ($135).

Free resources
People love free things and a lot of companies have used this to create link bait by giving things away with no catches. Areas to look at as a web host to attract relevant incoming links are free icon sets, a WordPress theme, CSS template etc. If you do go down the free web template path add your URL in to the footer as well.

Get involved with the forums
Research the relevant web hosting and domain name forums that do not add “nofollow” to links or signatures and get involved in discussions. In no way are we recommending creating spammy posts, in fact they will backfire on you from a branding perspective. Become a genuine part of the conversation but use your domain name in your signature.

Write an article for a high PR site
There are more web design blogs that anyone man could count, many of them with a high PageRank and quite a few open to contributors writing for them as long as it is original and useful content. As part of the deal the author will often get a small biog and a link back to their site.

Directory submission
As with anything when it comes to SEO, directory relevance is key here. Generic directories that will take anyone for a fee will pass next to no link juice but niche/ industry specific directories who care about creating a genuine resource are definitely worth submitting to.

Long term link building
Write a blog
Blogs with useful and insightful articles are a fantastic source of building links, blogs with dry content, nothing new to say or full of press releases are a waste of time. If you have the time and the drive to commit to writing regular content, go for it, if you don’t, stay clear.

“Hosted by…” buttons
If you provide a great service some customers will be happy to associate themselves with you and carry a “hosted by…” button or link to you in their footer. Not all customers will go for this, but if you don’t make it available then none definitely will.

Being known as an expert and/ or leader
You would be amazed how many sites will link to a service recommending them or using them in a “top x” list having never used them themselves. The old saying “success breeds success” is true for link building. If you become well known enough within your niche people will link to you because you are perceived to be a market leader.

A dedicated server is a web server that is devoted to one customer, thus giving that customer all of the resources they need to effectively run their website without worring about experiencing server space or bandwidth other pitfalls. Although dedicated servers are available to every customer, they are usually only used by larger businesses due to their high cost and overwhelming amount of server resources. Most small business owners would not necessarily need a dedicated server, but nonetheless it is a common solution for small business owners as well. One of the reasons why a dedicated server is so suitable for the large business owner is because the server setup is completely customizable and expandable. The following reasons should help you decide if a dedicated server would be suitable for your online business.

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You can now control your web hosting, domain names from your IPhone.

Available for both the iPhone and all Android powered phones, I.T Studio Hosting is proud to announce the launch of our Customer Control Panel and Hosting Control Panel for the iPhone and Android phone.

To access the new control panel from your phone, simply login as normal via our website and the new mobile control panel will automatically be displayed.

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What is the World Wide Web?

    * The Web is a network of computers all over the world.
    * All the computers in the Web can communicate with each other.
    * All the computers use a communication protocol called HTTP.

How does the  WWW work?

    * Web information is stored in documents called web pages.     * Web pages are files stored on computers called web servers.
    * Computers reading the web pages are called web clients.
    * Web clients view the pages with a program called a web browser.
    * Popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Firefox.

How does a Browser Fetch a Web Page?

    * A browser fetches a page from a web server by a request.
    * A request is a standard HTTP request containing a page address.
    * An address may look like this: http://www.example.com/default.htm.

How does a Browser Display a Web Page?

    * All web pages contain instructions for display.
    * The browser displays the page by reading these instructions.
    * The most common display instructions are called HTML tags.
    * HTML tags look like this <p>This is a paragraph.</p>.


What is a Web Server?

    * The collection of all your web pages is called your web site.
    * To let others view your web pages, you must publish your web site.
    * To publish your work, you must copy your site to a web server.
    * Your own PC can act as a web server if it is connected to a network.
    * Most common is to use an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

What is an Internet Service Provider?

    * ISP stands for Internet Service Provider.
    * An ISP provides Internet Services.
    * A common Internet service is web hosting.
    * Web hosting means storing your web site on a public server.
    * Web hosting normally includes email services.
    * Web hosting often includes domain name registration.

We recently addressed the issue of what we mean by unlimited web hosting here at I.T Studio Hosting with regards to the technical elements of web hosting (e.g. web space, bandwidth etc) but it can just as easily be used to describe the unlimited possibilities of our reseller hosting.

No limits on how many websites you can host
We don’t place any artificial limits on how many websites you can host. 1, 10, 100, 1,000 or 10,000, if you can attract them, you can host them on our servers!

No limits on how customisable you want it to be
Every aspect of your reseller hosting is fully customisable with no extra fees required to make it so. If you can think of it you can brand it.

No limits on adding more features
We want you to be a success and the best way to do that is untie your hands and let you sell without fear of being charged more for doing well!

The price we charge per month (£18.99) or per year (£199.99) is the only fee we will want from you for your reseller hosting. There are no hidden fees or extras to unlock features that are an essential part of reselling hosting. We won’t charge you to give your customers a control panel, to re-brand the webmail or offer graphical stats and we won’t give you a basic package (e.g. 5 MySQL free) and then ask you to pay for more afterwards.

No limits on what you can sell
We don’t charge you an extra monthly fee for the ability to resell domain names or dedicated servers; you just pay the cost of the domain or server itself. This means that if for any reason you don’t sell any over a time period you don’t have to pay us anything.

We have recently received several requests for the ability to add SRV DNS records to domains, and we were happy to oblige. For those who don’t know, DNS stands for Domain Name System and is how a computer translates a domain name like itstudiohosting.co.uk to the address of the actual computer that the website lives on.

There are many types of DNS records that describe how to find different services such as the web, and email servers. SRV records let some more modern programs find out how and where to connect to potentially any service. SRV records have only been widely adopted in relatively new protocols like SIP and XMPP, but it is expected that they will become more commonplace as additional protocols are developed.

With an SRV record you can specify different servers for the same service and split the requests between them in whatever ratio you decide. This is called load-balancing and is mostly only used for services with a high volume of users. It is also possible to specify two servers and have the second only be used if the first becomes unreachable. This is called redundancy and helps to prevent downtime on important services.

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When it comes to providing cheap, low cost web hosting solutions to clients we have a reputation as one of the best in the UK. Our extensive years of experience in this field have resulted in us being able to offer among the most affordable services, yet we don’t compromise on the levels of service, features and functionality that we offer.

There are various options that clients have when looking for a great web hosting package. Some will prefer the cost effective shared web hosting packages where they share space with other on a server and have limited options. There are the others who have more complicated or larger requirements and these businesses usually opt for a dedicated server package.

When it comes to dedicated server packages, we rank number one for the features that come with our dedicated servers. We are serious about our business, and we want to be serious about yours too!

In this day and age where everyone is aware of the credit crunch we offer great dedicated server packages to our clients. We are very transparent in the way we do business because we believe that trust is of utmost importance when it comes to building long lasting business partnerships, and we consider all our clients to be business partners.