| Posted by johngrimes21, 07-23-2011, 07:48 PM | | im a new reseller, its been a few years since i was in the business you could say.. ive always been interested in providing free cpanel webhosting.. what would you guys say is a fair package to offer? I have plenty of space i just know times have change and what you would recomend as far as MB of space and bandwidth.. any help would be appreciated!
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| Posted by Server Management, 07-23-2011, 08:22 PM | | If you wish to provide free hosting from a reseller account you must check the TOS of the provider as some providers dont allow you to offer free hosting due to abuse problems, etc
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| Posted by ModelWebHost, 07-23-2011, 09:59 PM | | Many of the webhosting provider does not allow to provide free webhosting. So, you should read TOS before you signup with any company and I suggest you to take a look at offers section. This will help you to decide your provider.
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| Posted by Harel, 07-24-2011, 05:24 AM | | Well I would say this too, many companies don't allow to sell free hosting.
Must check the TOS.
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| Posted by PremiumHost, 07-25-2011, 09:25 PM | | Do you expect to make any money from providing free hosting?
I'm pretty sure free hosting will cost you money and time but nothing back beside helping some people to have free hosting!
It's fantastic if they use free hosting for good purpose but many use free hosting for spam, hack, phishing ...
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| Posted by ktrhost, 07-27-2011, 07:20 AM | | wow, it means that you are providing free hosting service?
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| Posted by ModelWebHost, 07-27-2011, 01:04 PM | | This will not increase your post. Always post a meaningful post and I also suggest you to take a look up at forum Rules as you are new to this forum.
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| Posted by rakhal, 07-27-2011, 01:48 PM | | Whats your expectation from your free hosting users? I also provide free hosting to my forum members just to keep them active. And be careful about the space and bandwidth uses of your free hosting users. My suggestion, don't provide more then 1GB space and 10GB monthly transfer to ensure better service.
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| Posted by SSD-Greg, 07-27-2011, 04:25 PM | | If your going to offer free hosting make sure your provider dose not restrict it in there ToS ( terms of service) most hosts do this because of abuse problems.
I also hope you don't expect and money coming from this but lots of time and money thrown away into free hosting for people.
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| Posted by Sonwebhost, 07-28-2011, 07:18 AM | | I did a bit of free hosting hoping to get clients as they upgraded but it don't work with in a week I had hack city on my server. Had to dump the hole thing quickly so if you plan to provide free hosting be prepared to drop everything and run....
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| Posted by Killerwow, 07-28-2011, 07:35 AM | | You could give out demo packages and then have them upgrade to paid package.
demo package 1GB disk space 5GB bandwidth? for like 15 days then they have to upgrade.
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| Posted by Viper Sonic Group, 07-28-2011, 03:30 PM | | Free Hosting arent that bad at all for a first timer to test out Cpanel and etc. But check with your hosting TOS they might not allow you to set up free hosting as it will use a lot of resources and spams from your clients.
If you really wants to provide free hosting service, get either VPS or Dedicated hosting service but again check the hosting TOS or send them a support sales ticket
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| Posted by JixHost, 07-28-2011, 09:11 PM | | There is a Report button that you can use to bring this to a moderators attention to take action, if necessary. Feel free to use it, rather then publicly trying to act in a moderators capacity.
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| Posted by ModelWebHost, 07-28-2011, 09:29 PM | | I think I already did this and I am not acting as a mod. Suggesting to read forum rules does not means I am acting as a mod.
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| Posted by nychosting, 07-28-2011, 11:42 PM | | There are few things you want to consider:
1. Would you be offering permanent free web hosting or free trial?
2. Would you allow all free hosting clients to use mysql, emails, php, etc?
3. Disk and bandwidth must be definitely restricted. (less then 1GB of disk and 100GB of bandwidth for sure)
4. Would you be support 24/7? phone support?
5..
I can only see some advantages in offering free web hosting services when you ask the client to locate your banner or link. no others so far....
Any feedback?
Last edited by nychosting; 07-28-2011 at 11:47 PM.
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| Posted by HostXNow_Chris, 07-29-2011, 08:27 AM | | You should be using your own dedicated server or at least a VPS to offer free hosting services.
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| Posted by websterz, 07-29-2011, 11:29 AM | | There are some large web hosting companies who let you start offering free web hosting with branded name servers and with the feature rich control panel, i would suggest you to use that as they also provide you to place your own advertisement text/image code at the bottom of every page uploaded under your free account holder, it just need to buy a top level domain and start offering the free web hosting, just google the keyword "byethost"...
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| Posted by ABM House, 07-29-2011, 06:08 PM | | Thats not a good idea, i mean providing free hosting with reseller account, reseller provider can suspend the whole reseller due to abuse of too many accounts, think once your reseller account is suspended, good positive accounts would be also suspended, think about company reputation etc
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