Since announcing free InterWorx with all our VPS hosting packages and Cloud Dedicated servers, we’ve had hundreds of happy customers switch from cPanel where they don’t have to worry about the new “per account” license structure. While InterWorx comes native with a PHP selector, allowing users to select specific PHP versions for their domains/sub-domains, often […]
How To Point A SubDomain To A Non-Standard Port With SSL On cPanel
Recently I needed to run a Ruby app on cPanel using a non-standard Apache port (i.e. http://mydomain.com:6000) but wanted to send live traffic to a subdomain with SSL (i.e. https://sub.mydomain.com). After some research along with some trial and error I discovered a method that worked easily, therefore I wanted to share it to hopefully save […]
How To Run Ruby Apps Using cPanel
From time-to-time we’ll often get requests from customers on how to run Ruby apps on cPanel. Over the years we’ve seen a steep decline in such requests, but there are certainly still instances where it’s much needed. Despite cPanel adding their Application Manager to run Ruby on Rails with Phusion Passenger, I’ve still found it […]
How Much Does It Cost To Start A Web Hosting Business?
One of the most common pre-sales questions we get for our Reseller Hosting packages is how much does it cost before you’re up and running with your own business? Reselling web hosting provides one of the lowest barriers of entry of virtually any other business out there. There is no inventory to stock You don’t […]
Announcing Netherlands Datacenter For Web Hosting And Reseller Hosting Packages
I’m proud to announce that all of our Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting packages can now be deployed in our Netherlands datacenter! As you’ll notice in the above image there is now a toggle below our Web Hosting (and Reseller) packages that allow you to switch from our default United States locations. Simply click “NL […]
cPanel Announces New Pricing Structure – Creates Rage Throughout The Industry
Late last month cPanel, the most-used control panel for web hosts around the world, including NameHero, announced a shocking change to their license pricing structure. For over two-decades they had been licensing their control panel software to web hosts under a three different options: cPanel Solo (1 domain), cPanel & WHM VPS (virtual servers), and […]
How To Prevent Your Emails From Being Flagged As Spam
I always like to write blog posts based on feedback I see inside our support center to help customers solve common issues faster. I’ve noticed an increase in tickets involving emails being flagged as spam (i.e. when you send an email from your hosting account, it either ends up in the recipient’s spam box or […]
The Complete Checklist When Upgrading From Reseller Hosting To VPS Hosting
We often have Resellers get their business in a position where they want to have more control and upgrade to a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Given our high-speed cloud infrastructure, this allows customers to move over to a semi-dedicated environment with the ability to add more resources as their business grows (full root access and […]
NameHero’s Official YouTube Channel Crosses 1,000,000+ Views
I’m proud to announce we’ve crossed an important milestone: our Official YouTube Channel has officially reached 1,000,000+ Views! Have you subscribed yet? If you’ve followed our Blog it’s likely you’ve noticed how much I enjoy doing video tutorials. Prior to NameHero I operated an Internet Marketing discussion forum where we’d hold live seminars across the […]
Can You Still Make Money With Reseller Hosting In 2019?
I was recently asked by a potential client if Reselling Web Hosting is still as lucrative as I’ve posted about previously. This is a very interesting question as two years ago almost to this day, I published another article on Where I See The Web Hosting Industry In Five Years. Given we’re ~50% past this […]