It’s been said time and time again, your upstream provider can make or break you! In today’s market customers are wanting it all, and they want it now! When your a startup hosting company and your looking for a upstream provider to resell their services, it is immensely important to focus on the 3 key principles. I have classified these principles into three distinct elements, giving the acronym RUN!
Hey,
Over the course of the last 2 months SpecHosting has grown in tremendous leaps and bounds! During the time of extreme growth, some “extra curricular activities” such as the Blog was not updated regularly. I’m here to tell you, that’s over! From today forward, The SpecHosting Blog will be updated with the latest Company News and Office Chit Chat! If your still a frequent visitor to the blog, your in luck, on the next purchase you make, in the comment section upon checkout, type “Blog Supporter” and you will receive $20 in free credits! This offer can be used with any current promotion running or standalone!
Cheers,
Tanner
Hey Guys,
Exciting stuff is in the works here at Spec! After months of hard work we are finally nearing the release of “My Spec”, the new Client Billing & Support System! Below is a quick preview of an early screenshot taken, we hope you like it! Give us your feedback, what new features are you wanting to see?
Dear HostRail Customers
28.06.11 - Everything Else
We at SpecHosting are sorry to hear about the unfortunate events that ultimately led to the close of HostRail. I sincerely hope that you were able to backup your data before the servers were shutdown for good. I know you will probably not want to hear this, but, the fact of the matter is you get what you pay for. Hostrail was cheap, there is no dispute among that, but was it worth what you have went through? I don’t think so.
All former HostRail customers that switch to SpecHosting will receive a 50% off Coupon. Use coupon code: HOSTRAIL for 50% off your next purchase. Again, we are sorry to hear about the shutdown of HostRail and we can only hope that you are able to recover from the losses that this company has brought upon you. Good luck on your future endeavors.
Sincerely,
Tanner Bradley | SpecHosting.com We’re Just Up To Spec!
Chief Executive Officer – Founder
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The Latest Office News!
Well, we are absolutely loving our new office. We actually redid the entire About Us page to include pictures of our new office, and don’t worry, we will take more pictures of the break room too once we get all of it setup! Other then the new office, we also have some more exciting news. WE’RE HIRING! We are actually in the process of looking for qualified support representatives, system administrators, and account executives, if you think you have what it takes please do not hesitate to submit an application to careers@spechosting. We are filling remote and in office positions!
A Huge Design Change!
You might of already noticed by now that the design of our site and Client Portal has changed dramatically. We felt it was time for SpecHosting to once again go “under the knife”. We have an entirely new color scheme that is a little easier on the eyes, so I think you’ll enjoy that. Other then the obvious, you might of also noticed that the ordering process is completely different. We did away with the old ordering process and implemented a new way to order our products. This allows for a better customer experience and much quicker account/server provisioning!
What’s In The Future For Spec!
We are really excited about where SpecHosting is going. Being just over a year old now, we have grown at an amazing rate thanks to our Radical Support Team! Word of mouth is the best form of advertising, and believe it or not, that is how we really got our start. Our customers regularly voice their opinions on many web hosting or web design based community outlets such as webhostingtalk.com! Growing the brand is our main focus for June, but you should also know that SpecHosting will soon be launchinginging another brand, for only Dedicated Servers, and I can’t say much, but I can say that each Dedicated Server will come with a free cPanel license!
Something For The Current Customers!
How To Deposit Money Into Your Account!
Step 1: Login to your SpecHosting Account by navigating to https://www.spechosting.com/client/clientarea.php
Step 2: Click on “Add Funds” right underneath Current Due Balance
Step 3: In The “Amount to add” field input $75 and choose your payment method, then click Add Funds to continue checkout
Step 4: Continue with check out like you normally would. After checkout a $75 account credit will post to your account. 24 hours from then you will receive another account credit of $10
If you noticed, we have been using a nifty live chat application on our website for a while. And we’ve been loving it. After trying out several live chat applications, Zopim Live Chat is the absolute best we have found!
Zopim Live Chat is really easy to setup and use, and most importantly, it has given us more leads. It always hovers at the corner of the page, which makes it highly visible but non-intrusive. With other chat clients, once the user scrolled down the page, the chat button was out of sight.
Zopim Live Chat is really easy to setup and use, and most importantly, it has given us more leads. It always hovers at the corner of the page, which makes it highly visible but non-intrusive. With other chat clients, once the user scrolled down the page, the chat button was out of sight.
Not to mention the fact that it works on WHMSC, as well as many other platforms like WordPress, CRM and ticketing systems. If you’re using Zendesk, OSticket or even JIRA for ticket tracking, you’re in luck!
Awesome services that Zopim integrates with
Test drive it for free today. We’ve negotiated a great deal exclusively for SpecHosting customers. Upgrade your free account and get a 40% off your favorite package.
Once again, sign up for a free trial account here. Whenever you’re ready, use this discount code “spechostingexclusive40” to get 40% off when you upgrade.
Hurry, this offer is only valid for the first 20 paying customers!
Starting a Reseller Web Hosting Company is perfect for Web Designers. You already have a direct relationship with your clients and adding Hosting to the feature list will help you maintain a close connection with your customers, plus, you can earn 70% more per year on average!
Here’s The Top 3 reasons for Web Designers to offer Web Hosting
It’s Easy To Start a Hosting Company
All you technically need to offer Web Hosting is a Reseller Hosting Package. I can not stress how important it is to only purchase Reseller Hosting through a reliable provider. You are only as reliable as your upstream provider. Putting your customers in the hands of a shady fly by night host will lower your reliability with your customers tremendously. Most Reseller Providers offer completely FREE automated Billing and Support Systems to help you manage your Design and Hosting business.
Monthly Recurring Revenue – A Larger Slice of The Pie
Everyone knows that it is much easier to follow up with clients that you communicate with often. With offering Hosting on top of Design you are creating a personal relationship, they will come to you for everything website related without thinking of going elsewhere. With offering Web Hosting on top of design Services, you are also earning a monthly recurring revenue on top of your Design Fees. Building a Web Hosting customer base will be much easier as you already have clients that need Web Hosting.
Offering Additional Services On Top of Hosting
This one is easy! Offering additional services on top of Hosting to your client base is a great way to earn some extra income. Things like Search Engine Optimization are a great way to outreach to your customers and earn some extra revenue! Since you already have them hosting with you, getting them to purchase additional services will be much easier!
So that’s it, it’s really simple to offer begin offering Web Hosting on top of your Design Services, why not pick up a Reseller Package today! CLICK HERE and see for yourself why adding Web Hosting is the only way to go!
Feburary Happenings (Cheaper Virtual Servers Are Coming) Ability to Resell
03.02.11 - Company Announcements, Everything Else
The last month has been terrific! I know it has been a little while since I have got to post anything here to the blog. I just wanted to let everyone know on the latest with SpecHosting!
Cheaper VPS with Ability to Resell
As you now know by the title and opening paragraph, SpecHosting has reworked its VPS services, we will be launching them publicly within the next week! These VPS use the SolusVM Hypervisor and are administered using the OpenVZ protocol. Our VPS will still be using c loud technology, but we have reworked the entire system so you get better resources at a better price! Oh, and, Resellers will now also have the ability to Resale VPS machines to your customers! Pretty cool, we know!
HostBill Now Available On Reseller Plans
Thanks to our new relationship with HostBill, our resellers and VPS customers are now allowed a free HostBill license! Through our exclusive partnership with our Datacenter and HostBillApp we have already began offering these Licenses free to Resellers! Were one of the first Reseller Providers to be offering free HostBill to our customers, and were ecstatic about it!
More is coming your way to! If you want to get in on the Special Pre-Launch VPS Prices put in a ticket to sales@spechosting.com with subject line (VPS pre-Laanch Special)! That’s all for today!
Tanner and The SpecHosting Team
2011 Is Here
01.01.11 - Everything Else
Happy New Years to everyone from us at SpecHosting. It is going to be a great year and we hope we get to share it with you! Post some comments on what you want to see from SpecHosting in 2011!
This tutorial covers how to connect to a FTP server, upload files, save connections, overwrite files, and disconnect safely! Enjoy and let me know what you think!