This is the 3rd part in my series of how to start a web hosting company. If you haven’t read the first two articles you can read those here:
Starting A Web Hosting Company - Part 1
Starting A Web Hosting Company - Part 2
Scripts
This post is for the people who decide to go with a dedicated server instead of going the reseller route.
To run your new hosting company you are going to need a couple different scripts to cover all your bases.
Hosting Managment / Control Panel
These are the scripts that are going to allow you to create and setup hosting accounts, both manually, and automatically. They will also give your customers an interface to make changes to their hosting accounts, setup emails and etc.
WHM / cPanel
By far one of the most popular script of its kind, it does its job extremely well. Although maybe not one of the most intuitive systems of the competition, it is incredibly stable and robust. Also because of its popularity, there are no shortages of themes, and plug-ins for it. And many people are already familiar with it, so you just might get less questions for your clients. Price wise, this is just about the most expensive scripts.
Plesk
Probably the second most popular script used, Plesk also has a big following with many themes and plug-ins available. In the price department, this is a much cheaper alternative than the former.
Billing
After setting up your server with the management scripts, your going to need a script that is going to automate the signing up and billing end of things. There are quite a few of these scripts out there and I will list a few of them here.
So this concludes this post, be sure to check back for the 4th part of this series soon.
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