What is
Yes. You will find that many providers offer additional services, such as extra pop3 accounts, e-commerce add-ons, domain registration and transfer, and database support at an additional cost. These additional features are normally available for reselling as well, giving you the ability to offer your customers a full suite of hosting options. Again, these features and the availability of them vary depending on your provider.

What are some good questions to ask a
As described above, some good questions to ask your prospective hosts follow. Knowing the answers to these questions will allow you to prepare yourself and your customers to the kind of service that you can provide.
• Do you provide Private Label reselling?
• What different account types can I offer?
• What additional features can be added to an account?
• What kind of interface do I have to modify a customer’s account, and how much control will I have?
• How quickly can I get a new customer up and running?
• What hours is your management staff available for problems and issues?
• How often to you backup the servers?
• What kind of guarantee do you have for uptime?

Glossary of terms:

bandwidth
How much information can be carried in a given time period over a wired or wireless communications link, like the Internet.

Co-location
In general, co-location is moving or placing things together, sometimes implying a proper order. On the Internet, this term is used to mean the provision of space for a customer's telecommunications equipment on the service provider's premises. For example, a Web site owner could place the site's own computer servers on the premises of the Internet service provider (ISP). Or an ISP could place its network routers on the premises of the company offering switching services with other ISPs. The alternative to collocation is to have the equipment and the demarcation point located at the customer's premises.

Control Panel
An administrative tool provided by some web hosts to ease the maintenance of your hosted website.

Dedicated Hosting
The Dedicated Hosting environment provides an exclusive server or servers devoted solely to your web site. You do not share a server with other customers, as with shared hosting.

DNS
The domain name system (DNS) is the way that Internet domain names are located and translated into Internet Protocol addresses. A domain name is a meaningful and easy-to-remember "handle" for an Internet address.