HostingZoom Blog

We here at HostingZoom appreciate how daunting a task it can be to choose the right host. After all, there are so many hosts out there, all of whom promise to give you the best deal.

So how does one choose the best host? Here are some points to consider, and how we fit into the picture.

Customer Service: The last thing you want is to watch your website go offline, and have no one available to help you. At HostingZoom, that won’t happen. We offer several methods of support: trouble ticket, chat, telephone, and we even offer a Support Manager who can address issues if you feel that you’re not getting the attention you deserve.

Reliability: Obviously, you need your host to be reliable. You want your website up 24/7, right? We offer clustered failover hosting, which means that if one server goes offline, your website can stay up. With most hosts, if the server that your website is hosted on goes offline, your website goes with it. That’s not the case with HostingZoom, which means more uptime for your website or blog.

Trust: We understand that some customers may be hesitant to trust a company that they don’t physically visit. We’re located in Houston, Texas, and are accredited by the Better Business Bureau. We are not a “fly by night” company; our parent company, Landis Holdings, Inc., has been around for 11 years. Unfortunately, there are quite a few “hosting companies” run by teenagers out of their bedrooms. While their desire to run a business at such a young age is admirable, your website needs to be in the hands of a company with experience, and resources.

Ease of use: What good is a hosting company if you can’t use their services easily? At HostingZoom, we make the entire process easy for you. In fact, we’ll even help you move from your old host, as long as you use Cpanel as your control panel environment. Not many hosts offer that service!

Here at HostingZoom, we care about all of our customers, and when you sign up for service with us, you’re more than just a number. We think that when you apply the factors mentioned above to any host you may be considering, you’ll see that HostingZoom is the smart move!

Perhaps the fastest growing hobby today is blogging. For a surprisingly low investment, you can share your thoughts, feelings, and opinions, and those writings can instantly be shared with people around the world.

But what software to use? If you choose to host your own blog, there are many packages to choose from. One possible choice is WordPress, which is arguably the most popular blogging platform in the world.

It is free, and it is well-supported. Not only that, but thanks to many hobbyists who give of their time and skills, “plug-ins” are available, which offer extended features, such as the ability to play videos inside your blog, and the ability to offer a list of related posts.

Most importantly, WordPress is easy to use, and with it, you can easily create pages and individual posts. One neat feature that WordPress offers is the ability to be a Content Management System, and through that, you can run a standalone website. Or, of course, you can run a traditional blog.

However you choose to configure WordPress, it is a snap to set up and even easier to use, leaving more time for you to happily blog away.

Reseller Zoom, a leading provider of reseller hosting solutions and a division of Hosting Zoom, today unveiled a new lineup of hosting plans for resellers. Hosting Zoom also launched new plans for customers of every budget, including shared, semi-dedicated, new hybrid servers, and dedicated servers. All plans are packed with features guaranteed to be a hit with resellers and customers everywhere, especially during tough economic times where additional value is welcome.

“In spite of the uncertain economic conditions in the market, our customers are finding ways to generate incremental revenues through providing valuable hosting services,” says Greg Landis, president of Hosting Zoom. “Our goal was to give them the tools and enable their success. Competitively priced plans running on the best machines with a healthy heaping of add-on features are a winning formula.”

Shared hosting plans on Hosting Zoom begin as low as $4.95 per month with all the disk space and bandwidth the majority of customers need. Failover hosting plans offer fuly redundant servers for failover, free private SSLs, and free domain hosting from only $10.95.

Hosting Zoom Hybrid Servers

Hosting Zoom is proud to announce a new lineup of Hybrid Servers, where semi-dedicated meets VPS. Choose from two Hybrid plans starting from only $99 per month for 100GB space, 1,500GB bandwidth and 2GB memory. All Hybrid plans include:

• Free ClientExec software
• Free WHM/cPanel or Plesk
• Free full management
• Free R1Soft Continuous Backups
• Unlimited domains
• Limited to only 3 main clients per node full root

Hosting Zoom Dedicated Servers

Choose from four dedicated servers from:

1. E7200 (Dual Core), 2GB RAM, 2×250GB disk space – $219 per month
2. Xeon X3330 (Quad Core), 4GB RAM, 2X500GB disk space – $269 per month
3. Xeon X3330 (Quad Core), 8GB RAM, 4X500GB disk space with RAID – $319 per month
4. 2X E5405 (Quad Core), 16GB RAM, 8X500GB disk space with RAID 0, 1 or 10 – $599 per month

All dedicated plans have buydown options, and include 5 IPs, 2,000GB bandwidth, remote reboot availability, and R1Soft backup add-on.

Reseller Zoom Reseller Plans

New Reseller Zoom reseller plans offer three tiers: Budget, Advanced and Failover.

Budget Reseller Plans are starter plans with value for webmasters to host multiple low traffic websites under the same account starting from only $5.95 a month, which includes 7GB disk space, 70GB bandwidth, and 20 cPanel accounts.

Advanced Reseller Plans are great for resellers to provide web hosting as a value added service and make residual income. The Advanced servers have 50% less resellers compared to the budget plan and suitable for reselling. Advanced plans begin at only $17.95 a month with 25GB of disk space, 250GB bandwidth, and unlimited accounts.

Reseller Zoom’s advanced Clustered Failover hosting system improves performance and eliminates prolonged downtime so you get a faster response and better uptime. Plans begin at $24.95 a month with 25GB of disk space, 250GB of bandwidth, and unlimited accounts.

Reseller plans may include free WHM, eNom/Tucows registrar, ClientExec, RVSkin, and Fantastico.

Here at HostingZoom, we make things easy if you want to move into the reseller arena. That’s why we created the ResellerZoom subdivision.

Through ResellerZoom, you can obtain a reseller account for as little as $6.95 a month. No matter what package you choose, you get our legendary customer service, and you also get an added bonus: the ClientExec billing software. This allows you to easily invoice your clients, and collect payments. With this software, clients simply log into their accounts, and pay their bills. No more will you have to worry about keeping track of clients’ due dates; the software does it for you, and it comes with your service!

But what about support? We’ve got that covered, too. We can provide transparent support, which means that we’ll offer technical support to your clients, and we’ll do so under your service’s name. This is perfect for smaller hosting companies who may not be able to offer 24-hour support, but still want to make sure their clients are taken care of at 1 am just as well as 1 pm.

Our reselling services are “private label”, which means that we remain completely transparent; it’s almost as if you’re running your own datacenter!

With all of these services available, there should be no doubt that HostingZoom and ResellerZoom can meet and exceed your expectations. Not only will we take care of you as our client, we’ll help you by taking care of your clients as well!

Give it a try. You’ve nothing to lose, because we’re so confident in the quality of our services that we’ll offer a 30-day money back guarantee, and to top it all off, we charge no setup fee.

We won’t be like the annoying guy on an infomercial for a local home improvement business and ask “what are you waiting for? What are you waiting for?”, but…well…what are you waiting for? Give it a shot!

Some of those other guys don’t like supporting their customers. They like taking your money, but when it comes to customer service, they’re simply not there for the handoff.

Well, at HostingZoom, that’s not a problem, because we firmly believe in supporting our clients. That’s why we offer several different methods of support.

You can submit a traditional trouble ticket, or you can chat with a support technician. You can also get support over the telephone, or on our customer forums. Whatever method is best for you, we’ll give you the top-notch, quality support that you deserve as our client.

Why is support important? If your website is down, or if you’re having problems with the service, then you’re probably not happy. We don’t like our clients to be unhappy, and just as importantly, we like to know about problems, so we can fix them right away. More than likely, if there’s some sort of network issue, we’re already aware of it, and already working on it, but we never mind hearing from our clients, and we appreciate people letting us know about issues, so that we can respond to them promptly.

At HostingZoom, you never have to worry about being left in the dark, because we offer several methods of support. Some guys only offer e-mail support, and still others offer none at all. That’s simply not how we do business here.