Becomming a "Virtual Web Host"

[andmunn]

I currently run an online business, catered specially to business's. As an value-added feature, i'd like to now integrate "hosting" into my realm of abilties.

For example, I would like to pay a monthly fee for x-amount of space, and x-amount of bandwidth, and then, up to me, distribute this as I find appropriate.

For example, For $100/month, I could get a "server" with 100gig transfer, and 10,000MB space. Now, if someone's comes to me wanting a "small site", I could designate 500MB of space, and 1gig/month for $5.00/month.

I would like to be the one in charge of most everything, and i heard this can be done through something called "Web Host Manager" (i assume this is something like CPANEL, except for webhosts, which I am familiar with).

Can anyone help me with what i want? I looked into "resellers" , but this isn't exactly what i want, since I am only "reselling" at this point. Can someone sticky me providers which offers something like this?

Thanks,
Andrew.

[kodaks]

I don't think you'll be able to do that without some major conflicts. You may want to just start your own web host, but that takes a lot of time, money and expertise. To get started with that, you must choose a control panel, such as ensim.

[digitalv]

Web hosting might seem like a simple business, but it isn't - and your costs go WAY beyond the price of the server. Support, for example, is a big one that many people fail to consider. Also backups are very important - if a drive crashes, do you have an off-site backup you can get access to?

You would be much better off reselling or even doing some kind of affiliate thing - there are bulk space providers that let you partition space the way you want, but you're on your own for backing up and supporting your customers, etc. If private label isn't that important, just let someone else handle it and earn a few bucks off of it. Hosting is a 24 hour business, and websites are very important to people - people don't want an amateur hosting their site. If you're looking to give this as an added service to your existing customers, you would be MUCH better off partnering with an established hosting company and marketing it that way; if you don't and something goes wrong, your hosting service might turn them off of using you for ANYTHING in the future.