People are often confused on how to start their own web hosting company.
Nowadays its not very difficult to build your own hosting empire.

Following are the most important things to start a small hosting company :

1 - Reseller Hosting -  Buy good reseller hosting package so that you can resell hosting packages to your clients. You may start with 1 Gb reseller package and upgrade it later when your clientile increases. 1 Gb space may cost you $10 per month, rate varies at different hosting companies. You may like to check our cheap reseller hosting packages too.


2 - Hosting Website - Hire a designer to get your own hosting website designed in a very professional manner. Some hosting companies may also provide you free hosting templates with their reseller hosting packages so that you can just change the content in the template and you are ready to go. Hosterio too provides you free web hosting templates for your website.


3 - Billing Software - Its very necessay to have a billing software installed on your web hosting website so that your clients may place their order and renew it on time. Billing softwares allow you to manage your clients and orders. You can integrate online payment gateways also in those softwares so that you may accept payments through credit card.
Some of the popular billing scripts are Accounts lab pro, Modernbill, Clientexec, Whmautopilot.
If you purchase reseller web hosting with us than you get free Billing Software named Account lab Pro which you can install at a click of button from your cPanel control panel.


4 -  Payment gateway - Accepting online payments is must for any hosting company. You should signup for an merchant account so that you accept online payments. Some of the popular payments gateways are 2checkout, Ccavenue, Authorise.net, Worldpay etc
Additionally you may sign up with paypal too so that you can accept payments from people who have a paypal account.


5 - Support software - To provides proper support to your hosting customers is very very important else they will switch to your competitior. Its always good to have support sofwtare installed on your website so that customers can open support tickets incase they have any issues or questions.
Some of the popular support scripts are Kayako Esupport, Cereberus, Perldesk, Deskpro etc
When you purchase reseller hosting from us, you find a free support ticket syetem built in with Accounts lab pro, the billing software that we provide you free with reseller hosting packages.



6 -  Advertising and Marketing -  After you have integrated everything and your site is online you should advertise your business in directories, search engines, other popular websites etc.
You may also purchase advertsing with Google adwords and that too can bring a good business to you.


Just have the following things ready with you and you are ready to kickstart your own hosting company.