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Completely new to this so please bear with me. I need to host a few sites (reselling hosting) but they need AJAX support and all the reselling accounts I have seen don't seem to support running JAVA on a shared server like this.
So first of all do I need a server that runs Tomcat to run the Java for the AJAX?
Secondly would it be ok to resell hosting from a VPS? If not then what's "special" about the reseller accounts that makes them suitable for reselling?
Any help would be appreciated,
Paul
The VPS plans that we offer probably wouldn't be very good for reselling from - they tend to have less storage space, etc. You're better off with a specific reseller plan or with a dedicated server. You're going to want a plan that has good storage and lots of room for domains, email accounts, ftp accounts, a good control panel, etc.
- Javascript running on the client (web browser)
- some scripting language running on the web server, to handle the AJAX requests
You can't do AJAX using static HTML pages.
You can program the server-side of AJAX in PHP, Perl, Ruby, Java, Python, C++, assembly language, etc. etc. etc.
Secondly would it be ok to resell hosting from a VPS?
Ask your host. This would be included in their terms and conditions.
It can be confusing, as some hosts install control panels that have "reseller" support, but don't actually permit re-selling. This is because control panels were originally developed to support resellers, and then caught-on more generally because of their convenience.
In many cases, these days, "resellers" in these control-panel packages are used to group web sites owned by one individual, might represent a department in a company, or may just not be used at all.
It's the contract that matters, not the installed software.
