General FAQs for Windows Reseller Hosting

1. Does your reseller hosting require a static IP address for remote SQL Server access?
Ans: It is not necessary to use a static IP address for remote SQL Server access, you can connect to MS-SQL database using our shared servers IP address from anywhere with any type of internet connection.

2. Will we be able to import data from Access DB’s where required?
Ans: Our Windows server support MS Access database, you can simply upload your .MDB file under your Web-root folder.

3. Is MS-SQL Database included in the reseller package?
Ans: Yes, you can host your MSSQL database with us, it’s included in your windows reseller hosting Package.

4. How long will it take to set up our hosting?
Ans: Account setup will take only 10 to 15 minutes after verification of payment is done.

5. Do you offer a service to move our sites from their current hosting?
Ans: Moving your data would depend on the control panel you are using with your present reseller web hosting provider, the number of individual domain accounts to be moved & size of the total data.

6. Do you offer a Database backup service – if yes how frequent is the backup & how much does it cost?
Ans: We provide MSSQL 2005 express, which comes with its own management interface called SQL-Express Management Studio. This allows you to manage the administration of your databases. You would have to raise a helpdesk ticket to request a backup to be taken and/or restoring a backup for you. There are no charges involved in this.

7. What type of control panel comes with windows hosting?
Ans: Our Windows hosting plan comes with DotNetPanel control panel. The additional components which are included with DotNetPanel are as follows.

• ASP, ASP.NET 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5
• MS ACCESS
• MS FrontPage Extensions
• Microsoft IIS 6.0
• phpMyAdmin
• Remote Database Access
• PHP 5.2.6
• MySQL 5.0.51
• Perl v5.8.8
• SSI 6.0
• CDOSYS Email component
• ASPMail
• ASPEmail
• ASPJPEG
• ASPPDF
• JMail
• Microsoft Windows DNS
• Unlimited FTP
• FastCGI Support 6.1.36.1
• Spam Protection
• phpMyAdmin 2.10.1
• myLittleAdmin
• AWStats
• SmarterMail
• Webmail
• ISAPI Rewrite
• Redirects
• File Manager
• Joomla CMS
• WordPress
• DotNetNuke 5.0
• phpBB bulletin board
• FlexWiki
• Kbiki
• MyBlog
• DNP Portal 2.8.4

Dual Benefits of Webhosting UK Reseller Hosting Plans

WebHosting UK Linux/Windows resellers have the ability to host UNLIMITED websites under one large account. As a reseller hosting client you can resell our hosting packages or create your own web hosting packages and prices and resell to your clients under your own brand name. Your clients won’t know that you are reselling our web hosting services unless you let them know. We remain completely in the background and management of the server hardware and software will be taken care of by us.

Every reseller hosting account comes with free enom domain reseller account. You will be able to purchase and sell as many domains from the enom reseller account. You can also transfer domains from the enom account. You will be able to register domain names for your customers at a much cheaper prices than the actual cost which will allow you to earn profit on domain registration along with reselling hosting.

WebHosting UK resellers can use their own private name servers b’coz using our default name servers would seem less professional for a web hosting company run by our reseller.

Linux Reseller Hosting

Windows Reseller Hosting

What are private name servers ?

Private name servers are the name servers which includes your own domain name. Private name servers would be ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com. Usually when you sign up for web hosting you use your hosts name servers.

What are my private name servers IP’s ?

Each reseller server has it’s own DNS so you’ll need to refer to your welcome email for the nameserver information. For ns1.yourdomain.com the ip would be the ip listed in your welcome email. For ns2.yourdomain.com the ip would the same accept change the last number in the ip to be one digit higher. Example: If the ip listed in your welcome email was 92.48.74.22 your ns2.domain.com name servers ip would be 92.48.74.23

What are the benefits of having your own private name servers ?

Many resellers choose to have their own private name servers for appearance reasons. As a reseller hosting client you can resell our hosting packages or create your own hosting packages and prices and resell to your clients under your own brand name. Your clients won’t know that you are reselling our web hosting services unless you let them know. We remain completely in the background and management of the server hardware and software will be taken care of by us. Using our default name servers would seem less professional for a web hosting company run by our reseller.

How Do I get Private Name Servers ?

To setup private name servers you will need to create the name servers at the place you registered your domain from. Every domain registrar has a different process for creating private name servers. While setting up private name servers, try and look for something along the lines of “register DNS” “create DNS” or “add DNS” from within your account with your registrar. From there you can register your private name servers. Once your private name servers are registered with the registrar you can start to use them. You will have to use the ip address, provided in the welcome email, while registering the private nameservers.

How do I resell domain names?

To resell domain names you need to signup for our Linux/Windows reseller hosting plan. All our reseller web hosting account comes with a free domain reseller account. You will have the ability to purchase and sell as many domains you want from your enom reseller account. You can also transfer domains, and even setup a whois form to run off your site allowing for real time whois checks to see if the domain is available. You will be able to register domain names for your customers at a much cheaper prices than the actual cost which will allow you to earn profit on domain registration along with reselling hosting.

Signup for our reseller hosting and get you free enom domain reseller account. After signup please contact our Billing Department through HelpDesk and request for login details.

Do you allow overselling on reseller hosting accounts?

We do NOT allow overselling with any of our Linux or Windows reseller web hosting plans, if you wish to oversell you may consider our VPS hosting or semi-dedicated hosting plans as they have more resources and offer flexibility to oversell and keep CPU & RAM usage within acceptable performance metrics.

All our VPS hosting and Semi-dedicated server hosting plans are feature-rich, which offer total control, power and flexibility which most users desire.

phpBB Forum Hosting

phpBB is the most popular open source forum/message/bulletin board software available on the Internet. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. phpBB forum is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. From it’s inception in 2000, phpBB has been a great community software with the right balance of features and usability.
phpBB has a key feature set which includes the following, among others:

• Powerful Permissions System
• Private Messaging
• Search Functions
• Customizable Template and Language System
• Multi-database Support

Do you offer phpBB hosting ?

Yes. WebHosting UK offers the best web hosting for phpBB Forum sites with great features, fast and secure servers, multiple add-ons and high quality customer service! phpBB comes standard with every webhosting.uk.com hosting package with both PHP5 and MySQL5 a perfect phpBB hosting environment. Its fully scalable and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB forum can be installed with just one click from our cPanel or DotNetPanel Control Panel with no hassle and no coding experience necessary. phpBB forum can be installed upon client request for all our cPanel hosting and windows hosting customers.

WebHosting UK phpBB Hosting Features:

• Instant phpBB Account Setup
• Free phpBB Installation
• Great phpbb Tutorials
• Easy phpBB Account Upgrade
• phpBB Optimized Servers
• PHP 5.x and MySQL 5.x
• Fantastico auto-installer – Install phpBB in just a few clicks
• Stable, Secure and Reliable phpBB forum hosting service
• 99.95% Uptime Guarantee
• 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
• Expert technical assistance

Additional phpBB Hosting Services:

We are proud to host more than 5,000 Forum sites! and we make the process quick, easy and painless for everybody. We provide FREE and professional 24/7 phpBB hosting support. Our Technical Support team has helped setup innumerable such phpBB forums and helped them function with regular upgrades and updates! Use our professional services and let us put our years of experience to work for you. Don’t be fooled by other hosting providers, we promise the best service, because we can deliver it!

osCommerce Website Hosting

osCommerce is the most popular open source, front-to-back, on-line shopping cart application that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

Do you offer osCommerce Hosting ?

Yes. WebHosting UK offers you everything that you will need for creating and maintaining your online web store. WebHosting UK offers the best web hosting environment for osCommerce websites with exhaustive features, fast and secure servers, multiple add-ons and high quality customer service! osCommerce comes standard with every webhosting.uk.com hosting package and it can be installed with just one click from cPanel or Plesk Control Panel with no hassle and no coding experience necessary. osCommerce can be installed upon client request for all our cPanel hosting and windows hosting customers.

From the minute you sign up online, you are in complete control. Design your site’s skin, re-direct traffic to your site, manage payments and fulfill all orders from a user-friendly owner console. With osCommerce, everything is screen-driven. Simply follow the directions, navigate and click to select from a full palette of options and within a couple of hours, you’re not just on-line – you’re in business!

WebHosting UK osCommerce Hosting Features:

• Instant osCommerce Account Setup
• Free osCommerce Installation
• Great osCommerce tutorial
• Easy osCommerce Account Upgrade
• osCommerce Optimized Servers
• Fantastico auto-installer – Install osCommerce in just a few clicks
• Stable, Secure and Reliable osCommerce hosting service
• Secure transactions with SSL support.
• 99.95% Uptime Guarantee
• 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
• Expert technical assistance

Dedicated SSL and IP Address:

SSL certificate is a must for osCommerce site as it ensures that the confidential information like credit card numbers and bank account information entered by your customers remains secure. All our cPanel and windows osCommerce hosting plans include shared SSL certificate but shared SSL doesn’t look good for big sites with big products. We recommend Dedicated SSL for e-commerce website. We provide dedicated ssl for £39.99 per year with free dedicated ip. Our Technical support team take care of the SSL installation on your website. Each osCommerce hosting plan can have its own Dedicated SSL Certificate and IP address.

Payment Gateways:

osCommerce supports number of online payment gateways like 2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize.net etc. To accept payment from your online osCommerce web store you will need a merchant account from these payment gateways. osCommerce also supports offline payment processing like cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing etc.

Additional osCommerce Hosting Services:

Webhosting UK hosts several thousands of websites which work on osCommerce. We provide FREE and professional 24/7 osCommerce Support. Our Technical Support team has helped setup innumerable such websites and helped them function with regular upgrades and updates! Use our professional services and let us put our years of experience to work for you.

Mediawiki Web Hosting

MediaWiki is a free and open source wiki package originally designed to work with Wikipedia. It is written in PHP and and uses a MySQL database. A wiki is software which offers its registered users or anyone the flexibility to come together and create, edit, link to each other, and organize content on various subjects on a website. Contents on most wiki sites are usually used as reference material by many. Wikis are also used as a medium to create collaborative websites and to enhance the popularity of community websites. Nowadays numerous online industries deployed wikis for their internal knowledge management as well as a content management system. MediaWiki is the most popular and recognizable wiki engine.

Do you offer Mediawiki Hosting ?

Yes. WebHosting UK offers the best web hosting environment for Mediawiki websites with exhaustive features, fast and secure servers, multiple add-ons and high quality customer service! All our Linux/Windows dedicated servers have been tweaked to get the maximum experience out of your Mediawiki website. Mediawiki comes standard with every webhosting.uk.com hosting package with both PHP5 and MySQL5 a perfect Mediawiki hosting environment. Mediawiki can be installed with all our cPanel hosting and windows hosting package with no hassle and no HTML and PHP coding experience necessary. Mediawiki can be installed upon client request for all our cPanel hosting and windows hosting customers.

WebHosting UK Mediawiki Hosting Features:

• Instant Mediawiki Account Setup
• Free Mediawiki Installation
• Easy Mediawiki Account Upgrade
• Wiki-optimized Servers
• Stable, Secure and Reliable Mediawiki hosting service
• 99.95% Uptime Guarantee
• 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
• Expert technical assistance

Additional Mediawiki Hosting Services:

Webhosting UK hosts several thousands of websites which work on Mediawiki. We provide FREE and professional 24/7 Mediawiki Support. Our Technical Support team has helped setup innumerable such websites and helped them function with regular upgrades and updates! Use our professional services and let us put our years of experience to work for you.

What is DotNetNuke ?

DotNetNuke (DNN) is is an open-source and fully featured content management system (CMS) that can be used to build and maintain professional Web Applications. DotNetNuke is mostly used for creating and deploying projects such as commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, and custom vertical applications. DotNetNuke is built on a Microsoft ASP.NET (VB.NET) platform, and is easily installed and hosted on Windows platform. DotNetNuke comes fully loaded with a set of powerful built-in tools. These tools are helpful to manage and customize site design, content, security and membership options etc. It also includes a multi-language localization feature.

Do you offer DotNetNuke hosting ?

Yes. WebHosting UK offers the most reliable and stable DNN DotNetNuke web hosting infrastructure on the net with great features, fast and secure servers, multiple add-ons and high quality customer service! All our Windows servers have been tweaked to get the maximum experience out of your DotNetNuke website. All of our windows hosting plan supports DotNetNuke and you can install DotNetNuke with just one click from our Windows DotNetPanel Control Panel with no hassle and no coding experience necessary. DotNetNuke can be installed upon client request for all our windows DNN hosting customers.

From the minute you sign up online for the windows DNN hosting, you are in complete control. You will be able to administer the whole project through DotNetNuke’s own administration panel from within your web browser.

WebHosting UK DotNetNuke Hosting Features:

• Instant DotNetNuke Account Setup
• Free DotNetNuke Installation
• Easy DotNetNuke Account Upgrade
• DotNetNuke Optimized Servers
• Stable, Secure and Reliable DotNetNuke hosting service
• 99.95% Uptime Guarantee
• 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
• Expert technical assistance

Additional DotNetNuke Hosting Services:

We provide FREE and professional 24/7 DotNetNuke DNN Hosting Support. Our Technical Support team has helped setup innumerable such DNN websites and helped them function with regular upgrades and updates! Use our professional services and let us put our years of experience to work for you.

To order the DotNetNuke Hosting plans visit http://www.webhosting.uk.com/windows-hosting.php

B2evolution Hosting

What is B2evolution ?

B2evolution is an open-source and powerful blog tool you can install on your own website. b2evolution is a multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog publishing system written in PHP. It’s one of the BEST and most comprehensive blogging software available for free in many different languages! It includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with evolved and advanced features such as photo and file management, advanced skinning, multiple blog support as well as third party plug-ins among others.

Do you offer b2evolution hosting ?

Yes. WebHosting UK offers the most reliable and stable b2evolution web hosting infrastructure on the net with great features, fast and secure servers, multiple add-ons and high quality customer service! All our Linux/Windows servers have been tweaked to get the maximum experience out of your b2evolution website. b2evolution comes standard with every webhosting.uk.com hosting package with both PHP5 and MySQL5 a perfect b2evolution hosting environment. b2evolution can be installed with just one click from cPanel or Plesk Control Panel with no hassle and no coding experience necessary. b2evolution can be installed upon client request for all our cPanel hosting and windows hosting customers.

WebHosting UK b2evolution Hosting Features:

• Instant b2evolution Account Setup
• Free b2evolution Installation
• Easy b2evolution Account Upgrade
• b2evolution Optimized Servers
• Fantastico auto-installer – Install b2evolution in just a few clicks
• 99.95% Uptime Guarantee
• 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
• Expert technical assistance

Additional b2evolution Hosting Services:

We provide FREE and professional 24/7 b2evolution hosting support. Our Technical Support team has helped setup innumerable such b2evolution websites and helped them function with regular upgrades and updates! Use our professional services and let us put our years of experience to work for you.