HostGator Reseller Hosting Highlight
Today I am going to take a moment with you to highlight one of HostGator’s great reseller web hosting packages. They offer five packages, ranging from $24.95/month to $99.95/month. The one I will be discussing is their first and cheapest package, called “Aluminum”.
But first, before I get into the features, let me first quickly describe how reseller hosting works with HostGator. You have Web Host Manager, a reseller hosting account control panel. You go to WHM to create new customer accounts or modify existing ones. After supplying the pertinent information, you click “create” and this will instantly set them up with their very own control panel called cPanel. This is where they will go to manage their website. Once they are logged into cPanel they can do many of the same things you can with a standard web hosting package (depending on what privileges you’ve given them), like create sub domains, email addresses, change passwords, and much more without requiring any help from you or Hostgator.
Now let’s get into the details of “Aluminum.” This package offers a total of 24gb of hard drive space, which is a good amount for a starter account - you’ll find that you probably won’t need to give out too much disk space to each client unless they are planning on running a site like image or file hosting. Next, this plan comes with 250gb of monthly transfer - again, not bad for a starter reseller package.
HostGator also provides a lot of features that are perfect for resellers. This package (as with all of their reseller packages) comes with the ability to use private name servers, which means that if you don’t want them to know they will never find out that you are reselling through HostGator. Also, HostGator provides a free billing system, which is really handy, and a load of free templates. As with all their plans, they also offer 24×7 support, instant backups, 99.9% uptime guarantee, and a 45 day money back guarantee. Setup is free and instant, and there is no contract.
Aluminum also comes with the ability to add unlimited domains, sub domains, POP3 email accounts, MySQL databases, and FTP accounts - definitely a good selling feature for you! The HostGator servers support CGI, PHP 5 with Zend Optimizer, MySQL 4+, Perl, Ruby On Rails, Python, SSH, SSI, Cron, FrontPage, Curl, GD, and Image Magick. You can also optionally add Site Builder and Chillisoft ASP if you’d like.
All of their accounts come with the following email tools: web mail, e-mail alias, auto responders, mailing lists, catch alls, spam assassin, mail forwards, IMAP support, SMTP. Also, cPanel comes with Fantastico, Soholaunch, multi language, hotlink protection, phpMyAdmin, ip deny manager, custom error pages, redirect url, web based file manager, instant blogs, instant forums, instant guest book, and password protected directories.
The following statistic options comes with all accounts, too: AWstats in real time, webalizer, raw log manager, referrer logs, and error logs. As for e-commerce, HostGator provides shared SSL, private SSL, agora cart, osCommerce, ZenCart, and CubeCart.
As you can see, this is a very powerful hosting package, provided at $24.95 a month. I’ve been hosting with HostGator for a couple of years now, and I’ve experienced 99.99% server uptime, great customer service, and no glitches. I highly recommend this plan if you are looking for reseller web hosting.