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Reseller hosting options?
My company provides domains for some of our clients, which we pay for entirely.
We take care of the domain name purchasing, the design, the hosting; everthing. We're currently using Yahoo! Small Business to do this, which is very good. However, it turns out that you can only host a finite number of domains per user ID - They say it's for security purposes, but I'm not sure I believe that line...
Anyways, as a result we're looking for a host that provides an EASY reseller interface. Us technical folks don't usually get involved with the domain purchasing & provisioning since Yahoo does that part so well, and I'd like to keep it that way. I'm familiar with standard hosts like Rackspace & Mosso, but they don't appear to be terribly user friendly.
What I would like our business people to be able to do is:
1. Log in to the reseller management page.
2. Buy a domain name.
3. Have that domain name automatically provisioned and set up an FTP site with user and password so that we can pass those credentials off to our designer.
We never charge our customers for these domains, so that is not important.
These are all purely brochure-ware sites, with 1 php form that emails form results to our client. Any recommendations?
- DarrenStuart 19y agowhy don't you get a virtual dedicated server with a plesk desk and buy your domains from godaddy or something. Your save a bomb
- icey 19y agoIf it were a technical person buying the domains, that would be a great way to go. The way our process works is that these domains are purchased by a very non-technical person and they are automatically provisioned. That's the most important part of this entire process.
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- DarrenStuart 19y agoSomeone like fasthosts.co.uk is what you want then. They have reseller accounts.
- icey 19y agoAs a follow-on to my original post; if we can't find something that's adequately easy to use, we'll just end up rolling our own system to do this. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good company to use for a domain registration API? I know Joker & Tucows offer them, but I haven't used either, and I'm open to suggestions.
- izak30 19y agoI'm pretty happy with (mt)Grid-server, it doesn't automatically setup the FTP or send the e-mails, but you can setup accounts that work for every ftp (for your designers) and setting up accounts is quite simple, There is a limit (100) but there was some small fee to add 30 more (maybe 3$/month or something) All of that for 20/month + 15/yr per domain is pretty darn good.
- rms 19y agoI was on MT's gridserver for a while but was really unhappy with the latency. All of our sites felt slow to load. Plus they had an unacceptable amount of downtime. We switched to slicehost, which is great, but you'd have to roll your own reseller interface for them.
- icey 19y agoDid you find the latency was with dynamic pages, or the static files? I have some stuff on Mosso, which has a lot of latency problems, but their speed issues appear to be limited to dynamic pages & MySQL queries.
- rms 19y agoIt felt slow even with static pages with no database hits. On slicehost, static pages seem to load instantly and there was also something of a load time with Mediatemple.