Web Hosting Profits - November 2006

Welcome to Web Hosting Profits. In this edition:

Windows hosts save up to 67% versus linux

There is a common misconception that exists in the webhosting community today, a misconception that is holding hosts back from maximising revenues and growth of their businesses.

The misconception holds that Windows based webhosting is a far more expensive avenue than using Linux based systems, and that there is therefore more money to be made from offering services based on the latter.

Unfortunately the reckoning behind this common belief, is factually incorrect. And worse, it is actually holding hosts back from realising their full business potential... read more.

Technical Tips: Changing the default location of your domains in Helm

From the help desk with Rob Kershaw, Tech Support Engineer

By default, Helm will create all domains in the location of “C:\Domains”. Obviously, this might not be suitable for a number of reasons; for instance, you may want to use the C drive purely for system files, or you may have other hard drives with a greater amount of space on which you would prefer to utilise.

To change the location of the “domains” folder, simply go to the Web Service you have set up in Helm:

Home > System Settings > Servers > Your Server > Web Service

In there you will see a field called “Physical Root Path” – simply change this path to the location you want your domains to be stored in, and click Save to finish.

All newly created domains will now be stored in this location!

Future of Helm: Bound by the traditional three level webhost model?

Unlimited reseller levels brings ambitious hosts unlimited potential to grow

Developed with a focus on the bread and butter aspects of webhosting, control panels have long offered a workable level of functionality. Yet the traditional approach has assumed a lot about what it is that webhosts want to be doing, and constricted them to one particular business model.

Helm 4 takes the three tiered model and turns it on its head ….read more.

NEW: Guest Marketing Column: How to get noticed in the crowded hosting market

When Mark Hall, COO at Webhost Automation approached me to write this month’s article, I was interested immediately because this is such a common marketing problem that we see time and again across a wide range of industries.

It is a problem that is especially common in the webhosting market, which is particularly crowded and has a great many hosts offering very similar products. Whether offering products that operate on Windows or Linux, the crowding of the market is pressuring webhosts to continually lower their prices to be competitive, in an effort to get people to buy from them...read more.