Web Designers have a lot to consider when setting their clients up. They need to first promise a great design, then agree on how fast they can deliver that design, and finally choose a price that’s suitable for their customers but also profitable for thier business. Sometimes, customers come fully-equipped with their own web hosting accounts, but a lot of times, inexperienced webmasters seek assurance from their web designers as they search for the best website hosting company around. And if you’re a good web designer, you’ll have one company you work with, where you know the ins and outs of all their features.
But along with recommendations for their clients, every good web designer needs an affordable website hosting solution for their own business to run properly. Web designers cannot afford to pay thousands of dollars per year if they are just starting out in the business or only have several clients who need a good web host. A lot of hosting providers will try to sell web designers on the most expensive plans in order to be successful, but here at Lunarpages, we prefer an honest approach and have a variety of options for your web design hosting needs.
Reseller Hosting
If you’re just starting out as a web designer, only have a handful of clients you’re going to host for now (with the possibility of adding more later), or want to have complete control over your customers billing and support concerns, our Reseller Hosting Plan is perfect for you!
The best part for most web designers who are running their own businesses is that your clients will never know you are hosting with Lunarpages – in fact, you are welcome to brand the whole plan under your own company. Plus, since you take care of each customers’ bills and support inquiries, Lunarpages never contacts your customers directly. All you need to do is sign up for a Reseller Hosting account, add the domains for each client, and you’re done. Each customer has their very own cPanel control panel, where they can control their domains, subdomains, emails, and manage every aspect of their accounts. Plus, you get an administrativer area where you are the boss and control every customer under you. The best part is that you don’t have to worry about allotting each customer their own specific requirements, like storage or bandwidth, because every customer you set up is automatically set up with 1,000MB of storage and 100GB of bandwidth.
With Reseller Hosting you can also allot your own pricing to each customer, which means you can make big bucks, depending on the kinds of services you offer. We will charge you the same price no matter what, with volume discounts depending on how many customers are hosted with you, so if you’re charging $20/month to your customers so you can manage their site as well, that’s completely fine!
The Lunarpages Affiliate Program
If you don’t have time to manage the accounts you’re designing for or your clients all require various hosting needs (i.e. several want Basic Hosting, some require affordable Dedicated Servers, and another wants to become their own Reseller), you’ll want to look into our Affiliate Program. Lunarpages offers the highest performing Affiliate Program in the web hosting industry, having paid out over $3.5 million in affiliate commissions since 2000.
Our Affiliate Program works a lot differently than the Reseller Plan, as it’s more of a referral service, where you refer your clients to our web hosting plans and the client decides which solution works best for their needs. Every time one of your clients sign up, Lunarpages rewards you with $65 commissions. So imagine if you have ten clients who require hosting immediately – that’s $650!! And if you can refer more than 100 clients every month, we offer other incredible incentives as well.
Doing a simple search, you’ll see that free Affiliate Programs are hard to find and free affiliate programs that really perform are even harder, but Lunarpages offers the kind of personalized touch that no other program can, so as a web designer, you can sit back and rest assured that your clients’ needs are well taken care of.
Dedicated Server Hosting
When you have more than a handful of steady clients, are sure to increase that number soon, and would like to manage all of them under one roof with various allocations of storage and/or bandwidth, you are finally ready to look into Dedicated Server Hosting. A Dedicated Server is your own private webhosting server, where you can host all your clients and manage their needs as you see fit. So if one client needs 1MB storage while another needs 100GB, you can allocate as necessary, and manage everything under one roof. This works best for web designers interested in Reseller Hosting but with needs that are bigger than our Reseller Hosting can offer.
While some hosting companies only offer a single Dedicated Plan with no room for improvement, Lunarpages is able to offer 10 different Dedicated solutions, and each one is fully customizable to every need or requirement. For example, if you need extra storage, we can accommodate you. Need more RAM or bandwidth? We’ve got you covered. Need several more IP Addresses? No problem! You can even leave your number for a Dedicated Server callback, and one of our Sales Representatives will return your call to discuss your needs and determine what your website requires from our state of the art technology.
Inexperienced Web Designers
Everybody has to start somewhere. If you’re still learning HTML but know good web design when you see it or are building sites for friends and family, you’ll love the free templates and web design software that comes free with any 12 or 24 month Basic, Business, or Windows hosting purchase! You can use our software to design sites for your friends, family, clients, and colleagues.
Using any of the methods outlined above, you are sure to not only impress them but offer them a great resource for all their web hosting needs. And because Lunarpages is an affordable web hosting solution, you won’t have to spend thousands of dollars to get what you need. We’re here to work with you, and we love catering to web designers and other design professionals!
