Host Gator Reseller Account Video Tutorial
By Vic on Apr 27, 2008 in Domains
In the past weeks I have not only received tone of emails requesting help with the setup of a new Host Gator reseller account but also in the live chats people seem to be overwhelmed with all the options they have with their Host Gator reseller account when in fact what is happening is the exact same thing most people have with KE and SE, way over thinking things so I prepared this Host Gator reseller account video tutorial to show you how easy it is and get you folks moving the right direction.
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Vic Thanks for the video!
Of course I have a question. When I changed from the baby package in hostgator to a resellers account, I did an upgrade on the account.
hostgator was great at transferring all my data over for me. I could have never figured that out any time soon without losing a lot of stuff.
When I had my baby package, my new domains were logged as a subdomain under my main account, which is my local blog. Now as I am adding different packages to the resellers account in there own accounts my local niche blog is on top of the email verification from each site.
Not sure why this is doing this.
I do not want my local niche connected in any way to my other sites.
Also when hostgator did the transfer from the baby account every thing was put as it was under my local niche blog.
I would like to transfer these sites out into there own account so they are not subdomains. Is that difficult to do?
Sorry this is so long. But since you were talking about hostgator I thought I would address this stuff.
Oh by the way, my BANS sites are installing perfectly now (knock on wood).
I will contact you via email to set up a time to do this for you.
This video came at the perfect time! I had just bought a reseller account because I did have problem with BANS this morning.
My reseller account is going now, now I’m gonna try to get two BANS working before I make my skeleton directory
Thank you Vic
You should have no problem with HG and it will be huge when your network keeps growing.
I would have loved this video when I first got the resellers pacakge. You make everything so much easier with your tutorials.n Thanks again. Have to say that hostgator’s support is the best. They really take the time to fix problems when you call.
Speaking of the resellers account, I was wondering if you know an easy and quick way to backup all your sites from either whm or cpanel?
With hundreds of domains or better it would be a disaster to loose all your work. Don’t want to ever leave this to chance.
It is very easy I will make a tutorial on different ways to do it
Folks don’t forget to use the skeleton directory feature , and Vic is right its only overwhelming at first. I built two site just listening to this tutorial, its that easy, and technology and I usually argue , lol
As with many things in life man that first time is a bitch but sure enough we figure out it is quite simple and awesome
Thanks for the tutorial! I was kinda stuck with the bandwith and how much I should use in the BANS-package. This clears it up!
Thanks again Vic! And the skeleton directories work like a charm, people!
I am glad the tutorial cleared some points
Hey bro. Thanks again for the tutorial. I bought about 50 .info and 15 aged .coms so far.
Do you only create one account in WHM for all of your domains?
I didn’t want to have all my domains under one account in case one of my sites gets a lot of traffic eventually - so I’ve been creating a new account in WHM for every 10 domains.
Should I not do that & just stick with one account then?
I’m trying to figure out the fastest way to work yet I want to be prepared if a site happens to use up a lot of bandwidth.
Once I get another 50-500 domains…managing them is going to be a BITCH.
Scott,
Create one account for each domain. No subdomains. Each domain is 25 mg with 100 bandwidth.
They are all under on resellers account so not to hard to keep track of.
If you are using this one resellers account for BANS only you can set up a skeleton directory with BANS. Justin explains how to do this at his site: http://bloggingzombie.com
If you are going to be using other sites in different formats, other than BANS, Justin told me not to use the skeleton directory.
Hope this answers your question.
Is Justin’s blog down? Maybe he’s fixing the header…
He brought it back up again
Awesome.
I realized that yesterday. Made a skeleton directory & now I’m setting up my sites through WHM.
Thanks for the reply.
Sorry if this question was answered already. I was wondering how many BANS sites should fit on that Aluminum reseller account?
I have around 300 new domains. Not all will be BANS though. Some will be blogs, other affiliate sites, and so on. Some of my existing sites might be converted to BANS or vice versa depending on testing and other factors.
I assume 100 fit fine. 200-300 BANS sites fit? I could imagine ending up with 1000 BANS sites if it works well as I always find new domains and deals on old domains and see a lot of people who have domains and have no f-ing clue.
It really is not that much how many sites it has to do more with traffic if you get much spike traffic then it would be a problem but if you built like I built I am keeping my resellers accounts to around 200 sites but this is much a personal decision.
Vic,
Thanks. That makes sense. I understand that traffic is the determining factor. While I wouldn’t mind huge traffic ( if it’s worth $$$), I only anticipate small but targeted traffic with highly motivated buyers. I know there is no way to say what resources a site will use. I was just wondering what others were doing or any general guidelines.
Web Hosting is cheap anyway. I mean if I have 100s of sites making money it is no problem upgrading or setting up more Hosting accounts or whatever is needed. That’s a problem I would like to have ( as long as its $$$ traffic of course).
Hey Vic, sorry this comment isnt really about hostagtor, but I know if I sent you an email it probably would slip through the cracks. Just thought that I was in the contest but didnt get the email. If Im not, thats cool. But if I am and just didnt get it, could you let me know. Thanks Vic.
Will
Please send it again because I emailed the participants today and if you did not get an email it means you are not on the list so please rensend me the email so I can send you the info I need
Aw man, I didn’t get an email either ;(
I’ve been practically living on your site and when not on it, building BANS sites, Squidoo pages, linking, figuring out reseller accounts etc…and always with your site open in a new window because I have to refer to it constantly.
I’m addicted. This will hurt
I was really hoping.
Any chance there was just a small misshap somewhere?
If not - will be there be a way for us to follow along with the home version?
Yes please my fucking ADD I swear LMAO!!! Please email me so I can send you the email
Hi Vic, sent you the email.
Thanks
Will
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got the email vic! Yaaaa I’m in the contest. Thanks Vic, I’ll send you the info by tonight.
This is going to be cool and fun. Vic, this is going to be huge and word is going to spread. You are fast becoming the new (but real) guru. I had a feeling this blog was going to take off way back in december when I started following it. Way to go man.
Thank you so much for your words but this is all about you folks, I am sure not only will this be fun but we look forward to putting some cash in all of you folks pocket
gotsed it!!!
Vic,
I know, I know, as if you haven’t done enough with Mission: Impossible - but can you help out by giving some suggestions as to what criterion we should use to go about choosing our domain for the contest?
For example, with the techniques you have in mind for us, is it better to go service, product - or local niche?
Should we try and mirror the domain name or targeted niche of something we are all ready working on our own domain so that we can drive traffic to it?
Or should we go for something brand new?
Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to start our local niche sites?
I know you said that you are going to host our sites for one year…which is great, so I am thinking what do we do after? Do we take over on our own Hosting space and hope for redirects to it? In that case we should try and have that domain name ready, no?
And you said that BANS is better for product - and that this is a blog, so probably product isn’t the best idea.
I’ve just bought lots of domain names that I haven’t started. I’ve got some for products, some for services, some all ready going in certain niches. And a dream local niche blog to start.
Just have no idea what you have in mind for us, so hoping you will stop my overthinking and give us a bit of a guide post as to what kind of blogs we are going to be building and therefore what title would be best.
Thanks a million.
It is a subdomain did you get my email?
I know..bloggerunleashed.blahblah.com.
but still you want us to send you a name right? to replace the blah blah
So what you are saying is it doesn’t really matter…
Vic,
You’ve spoken about BANS for so long and Zach Johnson, “Mr. Super Affiliate”, just introduced BANS to his website. Do I sense a late bloomer in the game? lol
LMAO!!! Yeah that is so funny BANS has been around for quite some time funny how it is new to him
Vic, I fumbled your email and deleted it! Sorry but, could you please resend it?
Thanks
vic@bloggerunleashed.com
Hi Vic, still havent got the email for the contest yet. I sent you an email yesterday. Could you please send it?
Thanks.
Will.
What email are you using? I have not received it pls send again to vic@bloggerunleashed.com
Got it, Thanks Vic!
sent you my email vic.
I picked up comment demon today and it’s pretty cool. It finds lots of blogs. I use it in conjunction with seo quake. That way I can have a quick look at the deep pages in case there’s a high pr page with comments.
Have you tried Real Link Finder? It’s free and parses out the no follow and do follow. It also searches for blogs with one, two or up to five comments on it. That is apparently supposed give you better chances to get your comment approved. I already had that and liked it but I wanted to try comment demon for a long time now.
It seems to come up with a shit load more blogs but alot of them you can’t really leave a comment on. At least in the niche I tried it out in today.
Why do some people say that your comment links do get any juice? They say a blog link needs to be in the post. That seems strange to me.
Real Link Finder fur the broke person is ok compared to blogpost comment finders software it is a joke. If a blog has dofollow in the comments it has the almost the same weight as in the post.
so you definitely like comment demon better than real link finder?
Vic,
Thanks very much for recording your Live session! With my hours during the week I miss them all. I can’t tell you how great it is when they are recorded.
Thanks a ton!
I need to do this every time I always forget to click on record.
Vic,
Can you go to Skype for me? I have a couple of questions for ya!
Done buddy
Hey Vic! , I don’t mean to be a pain in the butt, but i really didn’t get any e-mail and was really expecting one for MP. I’d love if you could re-consider my application . Thanx Buddy!
Sent and got your in return.
Hey Vic! I do hope the time-zone wont clash with the contest. Are the videos gonna be done live ?
you will receive an email with all the different times for the live and they will also be recorded.
Hi. I just purchased the reseller account at hostgator and I’m trying to set up the skeleton file for BANS.(I got the 100+ .info domains, as suggested by Vic).
Anyway, the reason for this post is because I’m having trouble uploading the files into the public_html/folder.
For some reason, everything went smoothly except for the contents of the theme folder.
It keeps saying “Can’t create directory: No such file or directory” and “Can’t change directory to public_html themes” and “Can’t create directory disk:quota exceeded”.
I’ve used my FTP program (Core FTP) several times already for BANS without any issues at all, so I’m guessing it’s something about the way I’m doing it.
Also, for some reason I wasn’t able to find the public_html folder in the cpanel3-skel folder, as instructed.
I don’t know if that has anything to do with my problem I’m having…
Can anyone give me any suggestions?
Thanks.
I do not use the skeleton directory because of the diverse my sites are so on that I have no idea. I do not use the ftp software you mention so again on that I have no idea.
Now my question is how much space did you make on the pkg you created for your BANS?
Hi Vic,
When I set it up,I followed along to your instructions in the video. So I would have set it to exactly what you suggested.
Since it was saying “Disk quota exceeded” I was actually considering the possibility that perhaps I might need to set it up with more space for a skeleton directory.
Although, since I’m brand new to this,I don’t really understand what I’m doing anyway…lol
You did not answer my question how much quota did you make for your BANS pkg?
I put in 25 just like you said in the tutorial.
I went over to Justin’s blog, where he gave his tutorial on the skeleton file, and he suggested to another poster there to use between 200mb-300mb for the quota, and 500mb for the bandwith.
I modified my account, but I’m still having the same problem, so maybe that’s not the issue.
I would post at his blog about this issue but it seems that he’s going be gone for a while.
Hey Steven, you really only need 20-30mb for storage because BANS only takes about 8mb, and for bandwith just start out with 1000mb. You get 250gb of bandwith with the basic package, so with that setup you could have 250 BANS sites. Also, I would just use cPanel to upload your skel directory, since you only gotta do it once. Those ftp programs confuse the hell out of me too.
Steven man I do not know what to say try filezilla or as Will said try cpanel BANS is just an easy install so there is no reason why you are having problems.
Is there any place where I can find instructions on how to use cPanel to upload the skel directory?
Got to BU a couple of days ago for the first time. Spent hours (and hours) reading and watching.
Bought BANS, currently trying to transfer my hostgator shared account to a reseller. Then it’s domain Dashboard, then BMD. No BANS sites up yet.
As I’m totally new to this I’m still trying to work out a couple of things.
Am I correct that I add a package and then add each of my BANS sites into that same package? And do I do that by adding an account for each site whenever I add a new site to the BANS package?
Or do I add a package for every BANS site?
hostgator will transfer my current sites from my shared Hosting to my reseller account. Will these be in their own package?
I’m right at step one, think I’m way behind a lot of you, but at least I’m started now. Great blog Vic.
Just create one BANS pkg in WHM and everytime you create a new domain account you assign it the BANS pkg for a BANS site.
Hi Vic,
I want to set up lot of BANS.
I see you recommend reseller package.
One stupid question.
reseller package: 24gb/250gb
baby a/c: 600gb/6000gb.
I am confused. If our traffic is spiking and our sites are getting shut down with baby a/c, how can reseller with 1/25 bandwidth helps us.