Overseller Web Hosting Providers Spoil Website Owners!

A partner of mine, who maintains a high traffic website, created to promote and support a CMS said that he has been contacted by a hosting provider starting with Bluehost and the hosting provider offered hi $120 affiliate commission per sale. This commission looks so big that my friend accepted it. But let’s see if a commissions like this a real?

The above mentioned company sells overselling web hosting for $6.95 per month ($83.40/year). If the $120 commission is real they have to keep the customer for 2 years to avoid bankruptcy. I’ve spoken to Bluehost live chat representative and asked him a few questions.

My Question: Hi, I would like to join your affiliate program. Can you please tell me how much do you pay per sale?

Answer: $65 per sign up

My Question: That’s good. Thanks. Someone in WHT forums posted you are paying $100 and above… Is it a special rate?

Answer: We are not paying $100 they are confused

Me: OK. Thank you for your time!

So, according to Bluehost official the company pays $65 per sign up. If you however go to this page -http://www.affiliatewatcher.com/21-top-paying-web-hosting-affiliate-programs/ you’ll see that the web host pays $120 per sale.

In CJ.com, probably the world’s biggest affiliate network Bluehost pays $90 per sale. Action Referral Period of the company in CJ is 120 days.

So, where is the truth… The web host is probably offering different commissions to its affiliates. Those who sign up with CJ get better deals. Is that proper? At the same time I remember that 2 years ago one of the owners of the company complained that “the costs of acquiring new customer” is very high and blamed affiliate networks for asking high commission per sale. But I believe that oversellers are those who offer unrealistically high payouts and then impose various terms that allows them leagally to avoid paying commissions.

VPS Hosting and Parallels Virtuozzo

VPS Hosting is a class web hosting service which becomes rapidly popular among site owners. The reason for this is simple. It brings all the advantages of the dedicated hosting to site owners with small budgets. However the VPS users do not need to back up their virtual servers, something they must do in dedicated class hosting.

However the price and the backups outsourced to the VPS hosting provider are 2 of the advantages of VPS server owners. Another key advantage is that when anyone uses a virtual private server they do not have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on hardware, every time when they need an upgrade. The VPS Hosting users can easy add more resources to their plans – RAM, disc space and data transfer – every time they need to use more resources.

There are different approaches to virtualization and different virtualization techniques such as VMware\’ ESX, Xen, KVM, Virtual Iron, OpenVZ and etc. Any of them utilizes different virtualization technique. If you want to learn more about virtualization techniques read Full Virtualization, Hardware-assisted virtualization, Paravirtualization, OS Virtualization.

Parallels Virtuozzo Powered VPS Hosting

On of the most appreciated virtualization platforms – both from site owners and web hosts – is Virtuozzo Containers. It is proprietary software of Parallels based on OpneVZ. Both are the world\’s leading OS virtualization solutions. Virtuozzo Containers creates isolated containers on a physical server and OS instance. Compared to other virtualization technologies, it offers the highest levels of density, performance and manageability.

According to Host Color, a VPS hosting provider, one of the long line of hosting providers that use Parallels software products, Virtuozzo has a number of key advantages that makes it preferable virtualization platform. It allows you:

• To manage a high performance virtualization solution without need of learning how to manage an Operating System
• To get scalable VPS solution and dynamic resource management.
• To fast upgrade your VPs hosting plan every time you need.
• To get a real-time change of key system resources such as CPU, memory, network, disk and etc.
• To benefit for a full native performance architecture.
• To use fully-featured client interface that enables you to convert, provision, monitor, backup, recover, analyze, troubleshoot, repair, migrate, self-manage and to execute many other operations on your Virtual Private Server.

Promotional Listing: Host Color says that its Virtuozzo powered VPS Hosting plan – VPS Start that features 256 MB RAM, 10 GB disc space and 100 GB data transfer per month – is probably of the most affordable one in the industry.