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Is this illegal?...

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:04 pm
by zimmer
Is it illegal if I go to a hosting site (say for instance blahhost.com) and sign up for an account, then setup a hosting site of my own on that account and use my blahhost.com's servers of course I'll have to raise my prices about a dollar for each plan for some profit for me.

The way I see it, I'll be using they're servers sure, but I'll also be bringing them more business, in my opinion it would be helpful to the site, mind you that I'm not talking about signing up for a reseller program. I'm talking about reregistering for each client that signs up at my website and giving them the cpanel address for their account once I get it from blahhost.com

Is this illegal? To me it seems like it helps blahhost.com.

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:30 pm
by microthick
Most hosting sites would be fine with you doing that I suppose, but I'd read the fineprint in their terms of service.

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:41 pm
by zimmer
good, roger that. but mind you I would be raising the prices a few dollars to keep MY site up. would that still be legal?

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:15 pm
by microthick
You're just offering a service. Looks ok to me. I mean, either way, to YOUR host, it's just bandwidth being used and you're still paying for it anyway.

But the final say will come down to your hosting provider.

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:16 pm
by zimmer
Yeah, the guy I just talked to said it was fraud and wouldn't allow it, I guess I'll have to look for a good afilliate program.

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:17 pm
by microthick
Have you checked out monsterhosting.ca? I was gonna sign up as a reseller. It's fairly cheap.

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:32 pm
by zimmer
no it isn't I just saw the prices, they're way too high in comparison to something like this host

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:38 pm
by microthick
But is that host allowing you to be a reseller?

Do they allow you to host multiple domains for yourself off of the same account?

Do they give you unlimited databases and 2 unique ip addresses for vpn and other things?

Do they provide you with an SSL server?

I don't know these guys, but they do seem to offer a lot of services that most hosts don't.

I mean, I currently administrate 5 sites. Divide $25 a month by 5, and that's $5 a website. But that would go even cheaper with every domain I register for my clients.