How does reseller hosting work?
After signup you will be given access to the City & District reseller control panel, Plesk 10.4. Plesk will allow you to manage and provide your customers with their own user control panels (Plesk) which will enable them to create and modify their own web sites. Once your customer is logged into (Plesk) they are able to control sub domains, email addresses, passwords and much more without requiring any assistance! In the event that you encounter any difficulties, we're available 24/7/365 to help.

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	What makes City & District's Reseller Program Different? Unlike other hosting companies, City & District sets clear amount of storage space and bandwidth you get with each hosting plan. Practically every other hosting company provides hosting on a shared basis, meaning you are sharing the resources of the server with, in a lot of cases, hundreds of other websites. Without clear sets of amount of resources this can result in Server response time will be slow for the shared web server. Though the hosting company will take care for the high performance of the shared server, sometimes the web server will be down due to a malicious program or over utilization of resources by another website sharing the server. Downtime means inaccessibility of your website. There is the possibility of a ban of the shared IP address by the ISP provider or search engines due to the acts of one bad website in the shared hosting server. In dedicated server there is no such possibility. Though the hosting company takes care of the security issues there is a possibility of hacking your account by other webmasters, sharing the server, to get sensitive data. At City & District, we own our servers and we set clear amounts of resources for each hosting account. What this means for you is that our service is more reliable and secure than shared hosting services. There are many excellent shared hosting providers, but dedicated hosting provides a good deal more stability and security. With City & District's hosting services, hosting clients can avoid many of the potential pitfalls of shared hosting services. With City & District's dedicated hosting, a customer does not need to worry that the server will be overloaded due to an excess number of websites being hosted on one server. A client also does not need to worry about another website on the server having bad coding or scripts that would affect the hosting and performance of their own website. City & District's hosting allows a customer to customize their hosting experience, which is not usually the case with shared hosting services. Shared hosting packages include an assortment of applications and features. A customer often finds that many features are available that they do not need and others that they could use are not included with the shared hosting package. On the other hand, City & District's hosting clients can select the software and applications that are best suited to the needs of their website. Another advantage of City & District's hosting is performance and how well a website can serve their visitors or their own customers. A business that utilizes City & District's hosting does not need to spend time worrying that their site will be offline. At times the amount of uptime can be less than a person would like if they have shared hosting services. This is typically not something one has to worry about very much with City & District's hosting. Websites also will usually load faster when they are hosted on a City & District dedicated server. This is due to the fact that there is not an overload of websites being hosted by one server. The server is not taxed by too much traffic, data and applications. The fact that a website owner does not need to concern themselves with the worry of slow to load pages or excessive downtime is especially important for a business website. In this way City & District's hosting provides a great advantage to businesses that utilize this form of hosting. The quicker a business page is to load and the less it is offline, the more likely the website is to be successful. If the page was offline a great deal or had problems loading a business could lose customers. This is not going to happen often with dedicated hosting.
	A Plesk Control Panel for Managing Website Services Plesk Panel 10.4 City & District offers Parallels Plesk Panel on all of our hosting solutions because this leading panel makes your administration tasks routine. Any job you have to do to maintain a thriving web presence has already been integrated into Plesk. Need to add an FTP user? Easy. Need to configure additional mail boxes? No problem! Plesk hosting is designed to make routine maintenance of your web presence as simple as pointing and clicking. Plesk hosting is not for PHP programming geniuses or Windows application gurus. It's for everyone else! You don't need to know how to do web design or how to program in order to build and manage a robust web presence, or multiple web presence. This makes Plesk hosting perfect for anyone who is focused on running a business that wants to expand online. You won't have to hire lots of additional people to build a professional web presence. You can do it all yourself easily. Plesk has been designed by real people to stand the rigors and needs of real people. Businesses rely on their web presences. Plesk hosting is the superior way to manage and maintain single or multiple web presences. City & District employs Plesk as part of our cloud hosting plans.                         As the market’s number one server control panel, Plesk Panel 10.4 is a turnkey Web hosting system that includes fully automated billing and provisioning, an integrated Web Presence Builder with integration to Social Networks including Facebook and Twitter, and access to more than a hundred Web-based applications to create unique service plans that meet a variety of customer needs. Parallels Plesk Panel saves time creating websites, managing e-mail addresses, and deploying applications to servers, and its intuitive user interface means less work for hosters and their support staff. Hosting customers – from IT professionals, business and creative individuals, web design studios and even novice website owners – get up to speed quickly for using Parallels Plesk Panel to manage their websites and other hosted services. Try out the demo Control Panel as a customer Login: customer password: panel   Demo Hosting Suite as a Reseller Login: reseller Password: panel
	Customer & Business Manager Parallels Plesk Customer & Business Manager A highly integrated billing and automation solution that makes it easy for shared Web hosters and resellers to sell websites, domain names, and SSL certificates and more. Save Time and Enhance Customer Satisfaction Parallels Customer & Business Manager simplifies your life by automating the full customer lifecycle—from ordering to account provisioning to recurring invoicing and billing. Whether your customers are creating (or upgrading) website accounts, registering domain names, or purchasing SSL certificates, Customer & Business Manager handles the task automatically, with zero manual effort on your part. Plus, the easy-to-use self-service interface makes for happier customers by enabling them to purchase additional resources in real time and provision them right away. The end result is less overhead, higher revenues, and more satisfied customers. What Makes Customer & Business Manager Different? Only Customer & Business Manager gives you: The convenience of complete integration. You can see and manage all your customers—including their subscriptions, invoices, payments, and plans—through the same interface that you use for Plesk. And your customers can manage all aspects of their relationship with you through one interface as well. This simplicity translates into major savings in both support and training. Broad support for international billing. With Customer & Business Manager, you can do business around the world. By automatically tailoring your billing to multiple locales—including the Americas, Europe, and Russia – Customer & Business Manager provides the multi-language, multi-currency, and international tax support you need. Automatic recovery of unpaid hosting space. When a customer fails to pay you, Customer & Business Manager will automatically recover the hosting space, so you can resell it to other customers. By making sure your existing servers are fully loaded before you buy more, Customer & Business Manager reduces your hardware costs. Additional domain management functionality. Like most hosting billing systems, Customer & Business Manager lets your customer select a domain name, verify its availability, purchase it, and automatically register it. But, unlike other billing systems, it lets your customers manage all aspects of their domain from your website, rather than having to go to the domain registrar’s site. That’s not only more convenient for them, but it avoids exposing them to competitive hosting offers from the domain registrar. Customer & Business Manager also includes: Support for integrating domain registrars, sellers of SSL certificates, payment gateways, and more. Domain registration services also include fully automated renewals and transfers on behalf of your customers. An open and modular provisioning system that lets you sell virtually any service or product. Fully Automated Hosting Customer & Business Manager automates the complete customer life cycle, including: Order taking, using an intuitive checkout process Provisioning the customer’s account, applying appropriate resources through service plans Payment acceptance—one-time and recurring Processing of upgrades and add-ons in response to customer requests Complete CRM details on each customer, with comprehensive reporting tools Ability to import customers from existing Plesk servers Plus an intuitive end-user interface lets customers self-manage their accounts, reducing your support burden. For example, they can: Update their credit card information Pay bills Upgrade their plan or add new features Manage their domain names and SSL certificates Easy Billing and Invoicing Customer & Business Manager completely automates billing and invoicing, with support for different types of billing cycles (e.g., starting each subscription’s billing cycle on the date of purchase, or prorating the first invoice so that all invoices can be aligned to a specific day of the month). It also supports: One-time and recurring billings Credit card payments (including encrypted storage and both automatic and manual payments) Off-site payment processors, such as PayPal and WorldPay E-checks and bank transfers Manual payment options, such as checks and wire transfers Promotions, including both one-time and recurring discounts (e.g., when customer commits to a two-year plan) Auto-Suspend and Re-Enable If you have customers who have fallen behind on their payments, Customer & Business Manager will start by sending a series of warning e-mails. If those don’t produce results, it will suspend the non-paying customers, based on rules you set up. It can even automatically reclaim the server space, so you can use it for paying customers. If suspended customers then pay their bill, their accounts will automatically be re-enabled. Fraud Prevention Customer & Billing Manager comes with built-in fraud protection. An e-mail blacklist blocks orders from customers who attempt to use a blacklisted e-mail address; and an online FraudGuardian system checks customers’ credit history and generates a “fraud score.” Your administrator can specify thresholds for requiring manual processing and for declining the order altogether.
	Over 250 Applications on Our Cloud Server
	Hosted Email Accounts
	A Web Presence Builder for Creating & Maintaining Websites
	A Search Engine Optimization Tool that Guarantees Inclusion in Google
	Automatic Optimization for the Delivery
	Free Website Templates
	Amount of Storage
	Amount of Bandwidth
	Number of Domains & Subdomains
	Email Accounts & Features
	Database Support
	Framework Support & Easy Install
	Mobile App or Website
	Tech Support
	Shell Access
	.htaccess files
	Cron Jobs
	Language Support
	Site Backup
	Extra Applications
	Up-to-dateness
	Uptime