With the preparations finished, the business plans done, and our site ready to launch, it’s time to find a host. We may feel as if the tough decisions have all been made, but there is a critical one still ahead of us: picking a host.

Reseller hosts offer the most practical solutions, but it’s imperative that we know what our reseller can and cannot offer us, and whether it is compatible with our company.

Essentially, resellers are middlemen or subcontractors for larger hosting companies, often their phone lines and equipment aren’t even their own. They purchase space from larger companies.

Usually at a discount of about 30 percent, and then mark up the price that hosting compannies offer to the consumer. The most reliable resellers are the ones who buy from established hosting companies,the host delivers reliability and innovation, and the reseller allows the parent host a chance to add more customers.

Web sites that require NT hosting are slightly more expensive than those that use UNIX hosting, but, on average, resellers charge about some dollars per month.