That's ideal but we would have forgotten to do that. lol. It would've turned out to be 18 month hosting payments which is a mortgage. lol.
The real thing was that wasn't our income stream....just a side stream that seemed like a great idea. That's why we no longer do it and everyone has their own account. On 11/7/05, Mark A Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John, > > We go one further. We bill annually for everything but the expensive > hosting > packages. This cuts down administration. > > -Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John C. Bland II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:46 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ColdFusion Reseller Accounts > > > Anne, I'm no hosting expert but I've done the reseller thing many times > over. In my experience most hosts don't have an automated billing feature > other than charging them the discounted rate which defeats the purpose of > you being a reseller unless lowering your customers costs is the #1 > concern. > Crystal Tech lets you bill your customers or they can bill them but it > will > be the hosting rate X discount rate (where applicable). > > It was a HUGE pain to bill everyone monthly and most of the time I would > be > 5 months down the road for the past 5 months, in our former biz. So, in > our > new biz we aren't even touching hosting unless its on our ded server and > we > are automatically billing the client. We had a merchant account with the > old > company but most clients didn't want an automatic payment. Since we aren't > concentrating on that being a revenue stream anymore, all sites hosted on > our server will have to be billed automatically. > > So, either grab the merchant account and do your own billing or pray for a > host that has a sweet reseller setup. :-) > > On 11/7/05, Anne Girardeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the information. I checked out both > xtreme-host.com <http://xtreme-host.com><http://xtreme-host.com>and > > hostnexus.com <http://hostnexus.com> <http://hostnexus.com> and they > both look like good > > possibilities. My biggest concern, however, is that neither seem to have > an > > automated e-commerce component that could take care of maintaining > > subscriptions and handle billing. Granted, what I'm asking for may be > fairly > > "pie in the sky" and quite possibly doesn't exist. However, if anyone > does > > know of such a service, please let me know. > > > > Also, any overall recommendations for ColdFusion hosting would be > greatly > > appreciated. Currently, my CF VPS with Apollo Hosting is wonderful but > it > is > > extremely expensive at about $120 per month. Therefore if anyone knows > about > > a service that offers the flexibility without the expense, that would be > > awesome! > > > > Thanks so much, > > --Anne > > > > > > > I am hosing with Xtreme Hosting, http://www.xtreme-host.com/. I > > > don't > > > do the reseller stuff, but I have been pleased with their regular > > > hosting. Their reseller accounts start at $17/mo for Linux and > > > $18/mo > > > for Windows. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Anne Girardeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 7:50 PM > > > > To: CF-Talk > > > > Subject: ColdFusion Reseller Accounts > > > > > > > > Anyone know of a good ColdFusion reseller service? The > > > > reason why I ask is because I'm currently working on a couple > > > > of projects that both need hosting. Now, I currently have a > > > > VPS with Apollo Hosting and could, in theory, host these new > > > > sites on my VPS. However, I personally don't want to deal > > > > with the hassle and expense of getting an internet merchant > > > > account plus have to worry about manually sending monthly > > > > invoices if I can avoid it. In other words, something > > > > relatively inexpensive and automated would be ideal. But I > > > > also want to be able to easily administer and keep track of > > > > accounts. Any information and/or suggestions regarding this > > > > would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > Thanks so much, > > > > --Anne > > > > > > > > > [INFO] -- Access Manager: > > > This transmission may contain information that is privileged, > > > confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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