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No nonsense web & email hosting
for web site designers like you!
Call Richard Fincher now 0845 0036 101
Is the “Reseller”concept for you? you wish to charge some customers extra if they use additional
space. Also included is DNS control (with easy-to-setup templates).
You’re a web site designer. Your core You can offer POP3 email,, Webmail, Mailing Lists, Auto-responders,
business is designing a web presence Mail Forwarding, and of course anti-virus and anti-spam. You can
for small and medium sized enterprises. configure any combination of the above to suit your clients’ needs.
So what kind of outfit is best-placed to
enable you to add hosting to your
portfolio of services? Branding
The large conglomerate ISP? You can also give some of your more technically able clients
access to a similar control panel just to manage their own
Over the past three years, many of the larger hosting companies domains. And yes, you can upload your own logo to replace
have merged and merged again, to the point where there’s only Hosting City’s so that they feel at home with a brand they
really about 4 big providers, trading under a confusing multitude already trust. Should you require the Control Panel in other
of different names. These companies have literally hundreds of languages (eg French, Japanese etc...) this is available at a small
thousands of customers on their servers, and compete extra cost.
aggressively on price. They also offer hosting reseller packages.
“Hosting City”- from Room101 Limited What kind of Infrastructure?
Since 2003, Room101 has offered a hosting reseller service we Room101 has operated a Docklands-
call “Hosting City” to web designers The first thing about our located datacentre for ten years, and has
service is, we do not offer it to end users! What does this mean extensive experience on how best to
in practice? That you get to do what you do best, liaising with appeal to small and medium-sized
your customers, and that if they call us (we try to remain companies. We’ve shared our datacentre
inconspicuous), we politely suggest that they call you instead. space with some of the biggest names
Your large customer-hungry conglomerate ISP will just try to over the years, such as MSN, and award
nick your customer! winning Sibelius Software.
How you can add value to our hosting services What support can I expect from Room 101 Ltd?
Much of the value a customer gets when they order hosting
We’re always happy to guide your use of the Hosting City
services, is the support. Therefore, we charge you £3 a month (+
control panel - there’s a lot there to twiddle, although you only
VAT) for each domain name hosted, and we leave it up to you
really need to know about 5% of it to get started. Remember it’s
what to charge your clients. All depends how much value you
up to us to make sure you’re empowered to add as much value
add. And that can be quite a lot because we provide you with a
to your clients as possible. The one thing we won’t do is speak
feature-rich control panel which you can use to setup web
to your clients !
and/or email services almost any way you want to.
Pricing :
The Hosting City Control Panel
What can you configure your customers’ domain names to do? Control Panel rental : £30 + VAT per month, includes your own
Web site hosting with all mod cons, such as PHP scripting, MySQL site. Additional domains at £3 + VAT per month. Domain name
databasing, SSL/https, and full control over subdomains, logs and aliases at no extra cost (eg if your client has a “.com” and “.co.uk”
statistics, and of course you can configure quotas on all this in case
Room 101, Erico House, 93-99 Upper Richmond Road, Tel: 0845 0036 101 Fax: 0845 0037 101
Putney, London SW15 2TG email: info@room101.co.uk www.room101.co.uk