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May 22, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Host Department (hostdepartment.com) announced on Thursday it has launched a new mini reseller plan, enabling customers to startup their own web hosting company for $14.45 per month.
The offering enables prospective resellers to build their own reselling business. The plan includes five billable control panels, 10GB storage space, 25GB of bandwidth, 20 IP addresses, private nameservers, complete mail, web and database tools plus a personal reseller specialist to help with the initial setup.
Resellers who sign up for a 12-month or longer billing cycle, will receive a free domain to use as their domain storefront.
"Our mini-reseller special plan is the end product on what everyone has been asking for quite some time," says Hagen Oey, Host Department's product manager. "Starting your own reseller business doesn't require you to break the bank."
Currently, Host Department offers two reseller plans: the Premium Reseller and the Blowout Reseller. The Premium is priced at $24.95 and includes 50GB storage, while the Blowout is priced at $49.95 and includes "unlimited" storage and 350GB of bandwidth. unlimited IP address 150GB of bandwidth.
Both plans enable resellers to create their own hosting plans and prices, sales are directly transferred to their bank account and offer the ability to host both UNIX and Windows based accounts.
In other reseller hosting news, LogicBoxes launched a promo engine earlier this month for its registrar business automation platform. The Planet announced that Internet product developer Directi had become a member of its affiliate program, which was first launched in January.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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