Re: FN-FORUM: Reseller accounts - Forwarding Info - Frame based?

date posted 20th October 2006 15:35


Sam

Clearly, I've hit a nerve with you. Amongst that tirade of an answer
you've inadvertently answered my question, so for that I thank you. =
Also,
as it's Friday and the weekend is hours away, I won't thank you for your
less than supportive comments on my simple query to moving to more
professional web hosting solution.

Barry


-----Original Message-----
=46rom: Sam M - www.wiredeyes.com [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: 20 Oct 2006 09:49:01 -0000
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Reseller accounts - Forwarding Info - Frame based?


>
>NO NO NO NO NO........
>
>What your doing is not web hosting, its very bad comedy..
>
>Seriosly you cant use frames to host websites, search engines will treat
>them like they are part of your site and if you charge your customers =
for
>that then they are being ripped off.
>
>Get a reseller hosting account from somewhere like www.hostek.com (Great
>Windows hosting) and give the customer there own proper website, IP and
>email server. $25 a month (=A314 or so) (5 sites included) resell it for=
what
>you want.
>
>If you dont want to make much money (And you probably wont) then keep it
>cheap just use it as an extra service to allow you to easily up-sell =
your
>other services etc.
>
>Regards
>
>Sam Morgan
>
>WiredEyes / WebClickGo
>tel: (UK) +44 (0)20 7100 2178 / (IT) +39 070 766 242
>fax: (UK) +44 (0)871 433 2278 / (IT): +39 070 773 1234
>web : www.wiredeyes.com / www.webclickgo.com
>----
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>> -----Original Message-----
>>=20
>> Hi All
>>=20
>> Apologies for the newbie question. I would like to run a=20
>> reseller account
>> to host some of my existing clients. How do reseller accounts work?
>>=20
>> At the moment I have a chunk of personal web space that is=20
>> partitioned into
>> subfolders for clients. I use frame based forwarding to=20
>> direct the domain
>> names to the correct subfolder.
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>> Does frame based forwarding affect how search engines view sites?
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>> If so, would it be a similar set up for a reseller account, or is it a
>> direct 1 to 1 mapping rather than a redirect using frames?
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>> Any info would be appreciated.
>>=20
>> Many Thanks
>> Barry
>>