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The term “custom DNS server” or “private DNS server” refers to the DNS servers that a reseller is using to provide DNS services to his customers. As a reseller a web host does not have his own infrastructure. He is leasing the infrastructure from the actual web host.

Staying Anonymous
As a hosting reseller you do not want your customers to know that you are reselling them web hosting from a somebody else. The concern is that the clients would bypass you and buy web hosting directly from the source to save money. In order to keep your actual infrastructure anonymous you need  to remove any connections between you and the real hosting company you are using to provide your services.

Custom DNS servers are used so that a customer uses ns1.YourPrivateDomain.com and ns2.YourPrivateDomain.com for the DNS setting of their domain and not the names of the DNS servers that your host provided you with.

Resellers should use custom DNS servers as an additional step to brand their services and to hide the fact that they are buying hosting from a larger company.

If a reseller web host (a host selling hosting to resellers) does not offer custom DNS servers, a reseller should look somewhere else to buy his hosting from. Nowadays there is no reason why a reseller should not get his own custom DNS servers assigned.

I would recommends Host Gator Reseller, they are one of the best and largest host reseller. Check out their plans.

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I received this from ResellerClub few days ago, they will retire PHP 4 service.

Dear Reseller,

In a previous announcement we had mentioned that we would be terminating the support of PHP 4 from our Linux web hosting packages. The reason being that PHP 4 has reached its end of life and is no longer being supported by the PHP developers. For your reference here is a link to the announcement that was made on the PHP website: http://www.php.net/archive/2007.php#2007-07-13-1

Since the PHP developers are no longer providing support / bug fixes / security updates for PHP 4, we have no choice but to discontinue providing this service and make PHP 5 as the default version of PHP.

We understand the inconvenience caused, however we believe that continuing to provide PHP 4 after development has stopped will make our servers more vulnerable and prone to attack. This will eventually result in hacking attempts and may even cause server outages / downtimes which will be in no-ones interest.

Therefore, we will be retiring PHP 4 by 15th July, 2008.

We would also like to notify you about an important difference between the configuration of PHP 4 and PHP 5 on our servers. For more details on this new configuration click here.

You are requested to use the rest of this time to make your applications suitable to run on the new PHP version as well as configuration i.e. PHP 5 in the CGI mode.

Please feel free to get in touch with our support desk for any further information that you may require.

Warmest Regards,
Team ResellerClub
sales@resellerclub.com

http://www.resellerclub.com/

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Reseller accounts are accounts which allow resellers to create accounts meaning that they have the ability to host multiple domains and clients.

They are normally hosted within a shared environment meaning that they are open to the elements that can cause downtime within a normal shared environment – this puts reseller accounts at a disadvantage when compared to a VPS server or a dedicated server.

However, unlike VPS and dedicated servers, reseller accounts are relatively cheap meaning that anyone can become a web hosting these days – this fact is also what is fuelling something which is known as the ‘kiddie host market’.

A reseller account is perfect for you if you are new to the concept of reseller hosting and don’t require custom server modifications or if you only want to start out small and grow from there.

With most hosts you have the option to upgrade your reseller package to a VPS or dedicated server at any time without any downtime which ensures if you grow out of your reseller account then you can upgrade to a dedicated environment without causing yourself or your customers any trouble.

 Checkout my list of reselling hosting http://www.top10webhosting.com/reseller.php

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