Web Design Hosting

As a website designer, you may have your clients asking if you will be able to host their website for them. If you have no previous experience with the hosting market, then finding the right website design hosting package can be hard. In most cases, you will want to use a reseller hosting package in order for you to be able to provide web design hosting to your clients, since you will be able to host many websites under that one account. You will probably find that those clients of yours asking for web design hosting are either small businesses or individuals, and may not have any previous knowledge of the hosting market either.
The main aspects you will need to consider when looking for a web design hosting package, which in most cases will be a reseller web hosting account include:

• A control panel such as Plesk or cPanel so that you can easily manage your client accounts, and so that your clients can easily manage their websites.

• A mail server so that you and your clients are able to send and receive emails using your hosting accounts, examples include Exim for Linux cPanel web hosting and MailEnable for Windows Plesk web hosting
• A web server, such as Apache for Linux hosting and IIS for Windows hosting to serve you and your clients’ websites.

As a website designer, you will want to ensure that you choose a reliable website design hosting account. This is because in most cases your business relies on your website being up and available to visitors, and the same is probably applicable to the websites of your clients. You should consider a web design hosting package, that for example, mirrors the hosting server to ensure that there is a backup or ‘slave server’ in place to take over the role of the main server if it happens to crash for whatever reason.
If you develop dynamic websites for your clients, using server side languages such as PHP or ASP, you should make sure that the web design hosting package that you choose to use for yourself and your clients is able to support these websites. For example, if you have developed your websites using classic ASP or ASP.NET, then you should ensure that you choose a Windows web design hosting package since these languages will only run on the Windows hosting platform. As for PHP websites, you can choose between Linux or Windows website design hosting since either hosting platform is able to support this language.

You will face a similar sort of scenario if you have developed your websites to be based on a certain database system. In most cases you would have utilized either the MySQL database server or the MSSQL database server to store the content for your websites in one central location. If you have developed you or your clients’ websites based around the Microsoft SQL Server database system, you will need to ensure that you choose a Windows web design hosting package, since Microsoft SQL Server is only supported by Windows. Like with PHP, you can choose either Linux or Windows web design hosting if you have developed your websites based around the MySQL database server, due to the fact that it is supported by both Windows and Linux.

If you are a website designer who is looking to extend their portfolio of services, you can also consider website design hosting as a way to do this as it will allow you to offer your clients a variety of web hosting services. In some cases, you are able to receive full support for your website design hosting package which you can then pass on to your own clients, allowing you to be offering 24×7 support on the facade, when in fact you are providing support through your web host.
So, if you are a website designer who is looking to provide website hosting to your clients since they are asking for it, or as a way to extend your portfolio, then web design hosting is a way for you to offer it. Web design hosting may also be suitable for those who are looking to host multiple websites under one package.