With many businesses going online, Web Design and Development is a popular but a challenging business in today’s time. Setting up this business is simple, all you need is skills and the right expertise to make professional websites for your customers, and you’re good to go. ResellerClub is one such platform serving over 200,000 web pros across the world, helping them establish themselves in this industry. In this post, we will cover what is Shared Hosting, its features and how you as a Web designer can make the best use of it.
What is Shared Hosting?
Shared Hosting also is known as Virtual Hosting or Shared Service, is one of the most preferred hosting services for developers. In Shared Hosting, you host multiple websites on the same server thereby reducing the overall cost investment in your business.
Shared Hosting from ResellerClub is available for Linux as well as Windows and comes in two packages – single and multi. The packages vary depending on the plans you choose viz. Personal, Business and Pro. Since you are running a web design and development business, Pro is the best choice as it provides unlimited domains and other features.
Core Features of Shared Hosting
Let’s have a look at the core features that distinguish ResellerClub’s Shared Hosting from the rest.
1) Easy Installation:
Shared Hosting is a one-click install hosting service supporting Linux and Windows Operating System. The Linux hosting plan is equipped with Softaculous and Windows with Parallels Scripts both which allow 1-click installation of more than 300 applications.
Linux supports languages like PHP, Perl, Ruby on Rails and scripts including Joomla, WordPress, Magento, and Drupal whereas the Windows hosting packages support languages like ASP, ASP.NET, PHP and can connect to MSSQL as well as MYSQL databases.
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2) Infrastructure:
The infrastructure prioritizes Stability, Scalability, and Security. It is built on premium Dell servers powered by Juniper switches guaranteeing a maximum uptime of 99.99%. The Shared Hosting infrastructure is customized for uninterrupted operations as well as resilience and redundancy.
5 reasons you should choose Shared Hosting from ResellerClub
While there are many hosting service providers, the reasons to choose ResellerClub are quite clear. Let me highlight the important ones from a business standpoint. With their Shared Hosting you have:
1) Enhanced Control Panel
As a Web Designer and Developer (WDD) business owner, having your own dedicated Control Panel is very important to manage your business effectively. More so, the choice of control panel depending on the operating system is also crucial. Let’s have a look at them:
cPanel: cPanel is the undisputed leader of control panels in the Linux market today. With cPanel you can manage your customers’ hosting orders with ease from one central location.
Plesk Panel: Plesk Panel is a popular Hosting Automation Control Panel for Windows Hosting all over the world. It allows you to manage several aspects of your Shared Hosting account easily.
How does it benefit you as a WDD?
The control panel allows you to run software configurations, perform administrative tasks, manage emails and billings of your customers. ResellerClub provides cPanel for Linux and Plesk Panel for Windows.
2) Varnish Caching
The Linux Shared Hosting comes with Varnish Caching. Varnish is a web accelerator that allows websites to sustain very high traffic and load pages superfast by caching the static and dynamic content such as images, CSS, etc on the web page. Varnish Caching effectively speeds up the website by almost 1000%. This feature is pre-activated on all new websites added on the Linux Shared Hosting.
How does it benefit you as a WDD?
Here are some of the key benefits you as a WDD business owner get:
- Your customers’ visitors experience reduced page load times which helps in retaining your clients and delivering better value from their websites.
- Makes the CMS’s installed on your package exponentially faster to load.
- Requests are easy to handle and no upgrade is required for small bouts of high traffic.
3) Flexible Plans
Since you own a web development business, it is imperative that you will be hosting multiple domains. Purchasing a plan that suits your needs is very essential. ResellerClub has flexible plans depending on the customer’s requirements.
How does it benefit you as a WDD?
If you are just starting out, then you can opt for the Business plan which gives you a total of 3 Domains and Unlimited Disk Space, Data Transfer and Email Accounts to manage your client. Once your business progresses, you can easily upgrade to the Pro plan that offers unlimited domains along with Disk Space, Data Transfer, and Email Accounts all of which are unlimited.
Also, you choose your server location depending on where the majority of your clients are located. Their servers are located in US, India, UK, Turkey and Hong Kong.
4) Resource Protection
Security, Support, and Reliability are of utmost importance to any hosting service provider. As web pros and business owner, it becomes even more important to you, to offer resource protection to your clients.
How does it benefit you as a WDD?
ResellerClub encrypted their hosting server with FTPS (FTP over SSL). Apart from this whether you’ve opted for Linux or Windows Shared Hosting, both services allow Secure Shell access (SSH) so that you are able to run commands, manage your files as well as manage your hosting in a reliable manner from any remote pc over a highly encrypted channel.
5) Data Redundancy
Data Redundancy is a form of protection for data in the database or storage, in simple words, it means backup. If you keep any database without a backup, then you’re up for failure. As a Web Designer and Developer, backups are very important in terms of security. Not only do you have an infinite amount of data because of your varied clientele even your customers too dependent on you for protection.
How does it benefit you as a WDD?
All your clients need protection from one another as they are sharing the same server practically. ResellerClub provides redundancy at all levels, and you can also choose to purchase their automated backup services powered by CodeGuard to give complete peace of mind to your customers.
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What is the future of Shared Hosting?
With the advancement in technology and newer hosting services coming in the market, one of the most pressing question to Web Pros who have their business established on Shared Hosting is the future of Shared Hosting. If we go by the trend, then irrespective of new hosting services coming up Shared Hosting won’t die down.
Here are some reasons why Shared Hosting will not die out:
- Most of the general clientele just want their website to work. They don’t care if it is static or dynamic. If the majority of the websites are static, then they will consume less bandwidth. Here, Shared Hosting provides all the necessary resources.
- Shared Hosting is simple. As a user, you don’t need to learn complex things like server management that is a prerequisite for hosting like VPS.
- Shared Hosting is arguably the cheapest hosting service and basic, hence it will not die down. On the flip side, if it does, there is always an option of upgrading your Shared Hosting to another service without affecting your clients.
Conclusion:
If you are starting out your business and do not wish to take risks then Shared Hosting is the best hosting service to choose and ResellerClub provides some of the best hosting plans in the market today. With ResellerClub it’s easy to use products and manage your package as well. Most importantly, the pricing and support is good, as well as the promotional offers.
Web Developer & SEO Specialist with 15+ years of experience in Open Source Web Development specialized in Joomla & WordPress development. He is also the moderator of this blog "RS Web Solutions".