Supported by Redmond’s billions, Microsoft’s hosting division has managed to carve out an impressive market share in recent years with just over 33% of all active sites reportedly run on Microsoft servers (Source: Netcraft). By offering your customers Windows hosting you are opening up your services to a much wider customer base than if you sell Linux alone.
Consumers
With the continued democratisation of the internet and the explosive growth of Facebook and MySpace (essentially one page websites), at Heart Internet we have found every year hosting customers becoming less ‘techie’ and ever more consumer based (e.g. Wedding sites, family albums, blogs, fan sites…). As this group begins to explore more flexible solutions beyond the limitations of the social networks, many will automatically find themselves gravitate to brand names they feel comfortable, with Microsoft being the obvious choice.
Businesses/ developers
From the business and more traditional developer perspective, Windows plans are ideal choice for those who use such features such as ASP, ASP.NET & databases like MS Access or MS SQL. Hosting resellers providing both Linux and Windows will empower customers to run a PHP and MySQL based site right next to their ASP.Net SQL site, with the added benefit of it all being in the same control panel so they don’t need to keep switching between the two.
Why Heart Internet?
As with all our reseller and shared hosting packages, we have kept our Windows reseller account simple and straight forward, charging a low fee which covers all the extras and no surprise charges for basic features. The comparison table below shows how much you can save with Heart Internet’s Windows reseller accounts.
Heart Internet |
Fasthosts |
WebFusion |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly Fee | £10 | – | – |
| ASP.NET | Free | £25 | £10 |
| Log Files | Free | Free | £15 |
| Graphical Statistics | Free | £10 | Free |
| Shared SSL | Free | £45 | £25 |
Cost per year |
£10 |
£80 |
£50 |
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