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No nonsense web & email hosting
for IT support companies like you
Call Richard Fincher now 0845 0036 101
Is the “Reseller”concept for you? Forwarding, and of course anti-virus and anti-spam. You can configure
any combination of the above to suit your clients’ needs. And web
You’re an IT Support Company. Your site hosting with all mod cons, such as PHP scri p t i n g, My S Q L
databasing, SSL/https, and full control over subdomains, logs and
core business is providing remote and
statistics, and of course you can configure quotas on all this in case
onsite support to small and medium
you wish to charge some customers extra if they use additional space.
sized enterprises. So what kind of outfit
is best-placed to enable you to add
hosting to your portfolio of IT 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 IT Support companies. The first thing about located datacentre for ten years, and has
our service is, we do not offer it to end users! What does this extensive experience on how best to
mean in practice? That you get to do what you do best, appeal to small and medium-sized
supporting your customers, and that if they call us (we try to companies. We’ve shared our datacentre
remain inconspicuous), we politely suggest that they call you space with some of the biggest names
instead. Your large customer-hungry conglomerate ISP will just over the years, such as MSN, and award
try to 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 email
to your clients !
and/or web services almost any way you want to.
The Hosting City Control Panel Pricing :
What can you configure your customers’ domain names to do? Control Panel rental : £30 + VAT per month, includes your own
Well, how about full DNS control (with easy-to-setup templates). site. Additional domains at £3 + VAT per month. Domain name
Email is probably the killer-app for you. You can offer POP3, IMAP, aliases at no extra cost (eg if your client has a “.com” and “.co.uk”
Auth-SMTP, Webmail, Mailing Lists, Auto-responders, Mail
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