We see lots of new websites are launched daily and at the same rate the web hosting providers and so it is important as web guy to know couple of things
1. Running a successful Web Hosting Company
The most important difference between running a web hosting company and running a successful web hosting company is to understand the requirement of your user and work at solving there problems. www.go4expert.com was on shared hosting couple of years back and we needed to move to the dedicated servers but were not provided by the shared hosting provider which I thought was one of the most important aspect of client management and customer handling.
Any hosting company should have seemlessly moving from shared to dedicated hosting. I think this is one of the option that any web hosting company should provide because when you acquired a customer thats one part but he has taken shared hosting from you and that is just very small or nominal amount and so its important to maintain him till he needs multiple servers.
The second important thing to run a successful hosting company is to have as many free CMS as possible in your hosting packages because the amount of sites launched these days are not coded from scratch and are based on popular open source CMS.
2. How to Choose the Best Hosting Provider For Your Websites which Hosts and Maintain Multiple Websites With Minimum Cost?
According to me the best hosting provider is the one who has the following.
1.Cheap is one of them of course.
2. Upgrading plans is always a piece of cake
3. Allow Multiple websites to be hosted ( May be after the upgrade ) because we always launch one but are tempted to do some experimenting with new domains and sites.
4. Servers are secured of attacks and Operating System is well upgraded.
Here are list of some of the best hosting providers I have came across.
RackSpace - Managed and dedicated servers only.
GoDaddy - Good for startups for shared as well as dedicated servers.
Dreamhost - Very fast and reliable host to complete 11 years in this business.
Good Php web hosting - Affordable business hosting with paypal accepted.
Managed Hosting - Affordable and cheap Managed Hosting
Hostgator - Killing the competition.
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There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.