Need advice for webhosting...

[hankinator]

I plan on becoming a seller of webhosting(dedicated server and everything). What would be a good place to start?

What control panel and billing panel do you guys recommend?

Also I want to minimize costs as much as possible. I want something thats bang for the buck.

Any recommendations on anything in general about it?

I appreciate the help.


Server specs :
Quad core Xeon X3430 @ 2.4ghz
2 Gigs of ram.
320 gigs of HDD space.
100mbps connection.


My skills:
I have worked with BIND, apache2, mysql ect. I have worked with a lot of CentOS and a little bit with redhat and ubuntu. No mail server experience though.

[hankinator]

Bump. advice...?

[Nisd]

Well, If you choose to host on windows, you can use dotnetpanel, works great and have a build in billing system/panel.

[hankinator]

Its an idea, but I would rather stick to linux cause I understand it better.

[Nisd]

Well for linux only: http://www.cpanel.net/ should be just good

[hankinator]

Yeah I was thinking of cpanel, it just costs a ton of money. X_x

[dualcore1289]

Cpanel and WHMCS is a great combo.

[hankinator]

Yeah, from what I heard. What about direct admin? Anyone ever use that?

[dualcore1289]

Have not heard much of it. 90% of host use Cpanel and WHMCS or custom billing panels.

[hankinator]

Alrighty. That sounds like a plan. Thank you everyone for the help.