Building a website for the first time is an exciting journey, which will inevitably see you go through some essential steps. You have to start with choosing a provider, defining the best type of hosting, and then picking the most cost-effective package.
According to the latest statistics, over 81% of online consumers purchase products and services based on trust. When shopping for a TV, for example, you are much more likely to choose a Sony or Samsung, instead of an unknown local brand you know nothing about.
Many years have passed without anything major happening in the web hosting industry. The most pressing issue for websites in the last 8-10 years remains security and speed. The hosting industry leaders are not working hard enough to develop a solution. Instead, they continue competing on pricing, disk space, and standard feature offerings.
On June 27th, 2019, cPanel announced a new account-based pricing model that completely changed the way customers are billed and resulted in a price increase up to ~2000%.
While the hosting industry expected the price increase, no one imagined the actual model would change, and cPanel users will no longer be able to create unlimited accounts. That change affects the whole hosting industry so we’ll try to explain its basics and what you can do about it.
Most of the email messages being sent on the Internet are SPAM. Businesses found the power of email marketing and started using it by sending millions of emails to gain new customers and increase revenue. There is nothing wrong with email marketing as long as the emails are sent to subscribers who provided their email addresses themselves and agreed to receive those kind of messages. What happens in reality is that companies use bots and web spy machines which would crawl web sites to find emails. Then they save them into a database and start sending them offers for different kind of products. There are many people who are doing it without realizing that is illegal. They don’t know what SPAM is. Basically, that is sending of unsolicited email messages in an attempt to advertise a product. You can learn more about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming.
In our previous article we have explained what is a parked domain in cPanel or also known as a domain alias. Now, we will explain what is the addon domain and when you can use it. The screenshot above shows the options to manage addon domains, subdomains, aliases (parked domains), redirects and the advanced DNS zone editor allowing you to edit the DNS records of your domains.
Getting into the cpanel reseller hosting market is not easy. Except providing the cPanel/WHM control panel you must be able to offer many more extras and features in order to be competitive and to attract customers. There are some key points that need to be covered in order to be able to compete with the big players on the cpanel reseller hosting market. We will cover them one by one below.
There are some steps that need to be followed to get you started with your cpanel reseller hosting account.
You can login to WHM via www.yourdomain.com/whm once the DNS propogation has completed. Once you login click on create a package and specify the amount of resources you want to assign to it.
You can register your own private nameservers or use the ones provided by your reseller hosting company. It is highly recommended to register your own. It is pretty easy to be done and your hosting provide will help you with that. Once you have them up and running you can start hosting web sites in your cPanel reseller hosting account.
