Private label web hosting plans are designed for clients that have multiple websites.  These hosting plans are purchased in blocks of 'Domains' that allow you to set up each website in it's own environment, and are set up in a way that gives you administrative control over all of your websites - adding sites, suspending sites, upgrading and downgrading them is all accomplished with your reseller control panel. 

Our reseller web hosting plans are set up to be 'Private Label' which means that to all but the most sophisticated customers, we will be completely transparent.  We will never contact your customers, and you will appear to them as if you were the web hosting company

This form of hosting is also commonly referred to as a 'Virtual Server' or 'Bulk Hosting' because you purchase a set number of domains hosting accounts, or a set amount of disk space and bandwidth, and can manage it yourself without the assistance of an administrator.  This gives you most of the control you would have if you had your own 'Dedicated Server' without the high setup fees, and ongoing costs of maintaining your own equipment. 

Each Reseller's virtual server account has to have a 'Master' domain.  This is the website that is tied to the reseller's control panel, SSL certificate, and name servers.  This will be the domain that your customer's see as they interact with you.  Most resellers set this domain up as their web hosting company's main domain.  As a service to our resellers, we do not charge you for your master domain, only for the sites you re-sell. 

Re-Sold domains are the websites that you sell to your customers.  These sites are set up within your reseller control panel, and have all of the features that our Unix Web Hosting packages have: Cpanel , SSL, Shopping Carts, Bulletin Boards, Pre-Installed CGI's etc... 

Our Basic Virtual Server packages have a set number of Re-Sold Domains, which means that you can set up as many sites under your master domain as your package allows.  If you purchase the RS1K plan you will have 1 Master Domain and 10 Re-Sold Domains you have a total of 11 domains that you may use yourself or sell to your customers.  Your re-sold domains can be any combination of our Starter, Standard, or Xtra Unix web hosting plans. 

Our Advanced Virtual Server packages have a set limit of disk space and bandwidth which means that you can set up as many sites under your master domain as your package allows.  If you purchase the RS4K plan You will have 1 Master Domain and 4 Gigabytes of disk space and 10 Gigabytes of Bandwidth.  This disk space and bandwidth can be provisioned into an unlimited number of re-sold domains that you may use yourself or sell to your customers, until your space and transfer limits are reached. 

The cost per domain is calculated by taking the monthly charge and dividing it by the number of re-sold domains.  For example with the RS1K :  $45 Monthly / 10 Re-Sold Domains = $4.50 Cost per Domain.  You may re-sell each domain hosting account to your customers at any price you choose.

Front Page Extensions are server side programs that must be installed in order for customers to be able to use Microsoft Front Page to manage their websites.  Every website you host with us whether it's a master domain or a re-sold domain will have access to the most current version released by Microsoft. 

The Reseller Guide is a manual that we have written that is designed to give you practical advice and ideas on how to design, market, and run your web hosting business.  It is available for free here.

Each Master domain and re-sold domain will have all of the features of our Unix Hosting plans as well as Cpanel .  A few of the pre-installed cgi and PHP scripts available to every domain are:

Interchange Shopping Cart Agora Shopping Cart XMB Bulletin Board   Java Chat Html Chat phpMyChat Cgi Wrapper (for non-suexec installs) Random HTML Generator Advanced Guestbook Counter Generator Java Clock Generator Java Countdown Generator Secure FormMail clone cgiemail Entropy Search Entropy Banner

Advanced Scripts

osCommerce (Shopping Cart) Documentation PhpBB2 (Bulletin Board)  4images Gallery (Image Gallery)  PHPauction (Auction Site)  PHProjekt (Groupware)  PHP-Nuke - (Community Portal)  Post-Nuke (Content Management) Xoops (Portal) PHP Links (Link Directory) phpWebSite (Content Management) b2 (Weblog)

You may choose to purchase your own SSL certificate and provide it as a 'shared' SSL cert for your customers or use our unbranded certificate for free.  If you choose a private label SSL certificate, it is one more feature that keeps us in the background, and helps you provide quality services to your customers. 

Your private label SSL certificate may be installed by you from within your reseller control panel, or can be installed by us for a one time setup fee.

When a customer signs up for web hosting service with you, you have to provide him with DNS name servers in order to point his site at your virtual server. 
DNS name servers commonly take this format:

Primary name server: NS.affordablewebsolutions.com
Secondary name server:  NS2.affordablewebsolutions.com

With unbranded name servers there is no mention of Affordable-web-solutions.com and with Private Label name servers the primary and secondary name servers will be the same as your master domain.

You are free to charge your customers any price you wish for the web hosting services that you sell them.  You don't have to use the prices that we charge for our web hosting accounts as your basis, although you are free to do so.  This means that you may add value to your services and increase your income as much as you like.

With our Advanced Virtual Servers you purchase a block of disk space and data transfer (bandwidth) when you reach the limits of your account, you may purchase additional disk space and bandwidth so that you can add additional customers, or simply upgrade to the next higher plan.