What if main company goes out of business? - Page 2

brianf · Post #16 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by AbbieRose

I agree with you Brian. Perhaps in this case this is where a good reseller could win out. You could make it part of your own service (offered for an additional fee) to take back ups daily of your client sites.

For many sites, daily backups wouldn't be a problem. However, for larger sites the bandwidth could be a significant problem. It would be possible to perform incremental backups, however, as a reseller it's unlikely that you would have access to shell and be able to add packages for that purpose.

XNL0 · Post #17 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008, 07:34 AM

Aren't resellers usually given jailed shell access? I think that's an essential feature of the package.

brianf · Post #18 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by XNL0

Aren't resellers usually given jailed shell access? I think that's an essential feature of the package.

Some plans may include shell access, however, I do not believe it is include with the majority. Even with jailed shell access you wouldn't have permissions to install and customize packages (.rpm). It's possible that some hosts might install the packages for you and allow you to access the necessary files, however, I'd say that it's very unlikely. This is one reason why VPS's are becoming popular.

XNL0 · Post #19 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 08:52 AM

Agree on this, but reselling packages are here to stay, don't think that soon will be haveing everyone reselling from a vps plan.

netbb · Post #20 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008, 04:32 PM

Don't think so either. It's not always easy to choose and sometimes worth the risk, big companies or small ones. It's like, in the big ones you're just 'a' customor or a visitor... in the small ones they take better care, or at least try to have a better band.

HostingITrust · Post #21 (**permalink**) 07-13-2008, 11:00 AM

Only buy from a hostng company that has been around for quite some time. That way you will know that they will not run away.

biggest_hosting · Post #22 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by chatterbox

I have had this happen to me when I was on the customer side of the fence. Purchase a hosting plan, get a website going and then, poof! Overnight the company is gone and so is my website. The reseller that I bought from was just as dismayed as I was and didn't know what to do next.

Any advice for preventing or dealing with such a situation (for the reseller)?

Go with established resellers who stood the test of time and this will not happen to you.

hostchecker · Post #23 (**permalink**) 09-12-2008, 07:02 PM

First off, why buy from resellers? NO offense, but if you are just a customer why do this? Go straight to the source.

Addmember · Post #24 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by ldcdc

Go with a big enough provider. Small operations can go poof. Bigger ones, usually just go bad, not completely disappear. With the company still there, while service will be bad, the servers are likely to be up most of the time, facilitating a relatively smooth move to another provider. One needs to keep an eye on how the company is faring though. Usually, it is a merger or a sale that brings drastic, sudden changes.

Agree. we should look for the root of evil inside us, so when the company we resell fron disappears - this is our fault that we went with unstable scammers, and not anyone else's.

~ServerPoint~ · Post #25 (**permalink**) 09-19-2008, 03:17 AM

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First off, why buy from resellers?

Sometimes (even as rule) people have no ide who they are deal with