In real world, businesses come in every size, from self-employed entrepreneurs like me to mega malls like Wal-Mart.

On Internet, companies come in every size, too, from a stand-alone ebook sales page with webmaster and owner all in one, to 300 pound gorilla like Amazon, with over a million pages requiring entire population of a small country to serve as webmaster.

If your site is a single page, it is its own network. But if your site is any bigger, and you have plans to grow, it is a network or is fast becoming one. You need network monitoring.

Most ecommerce webmasters are at least somewhat familiar with website monitoring. Many use a website monitoring service or software to keep track of "uptime" and "downtime".

At your local shopping mall, serious business requires more than just knowing when front doors are open and when they are closed. Serious ecommerce needs to know more than just when site is accessible. That is what network monitoring is all about.

Chances are, your e-business owns one of following, or uses one of following remotely:

DNS servers: These are used to translate your site name, like www.mycompany.com, to numbers called "IP addresses" that computers understand. If DNS servers are not working properly, end-users will not be able to find your site and will get an error. Usually only an external or remote monitoring service will detect such a problem.

An FTP server: File Transfer Protocol servers are used to help you exchange files with remote users. If you use FTP, a monitoring service can make sure it is always up and running.

Are you ready to start your own web hosting company? The best way to start your own web hosting company is to get a reseller hosting package from a hosting company and start your web hosting company instantly without buying or installing any softwares.But When buying a reseller hosting package, there are many things to consider . So today this article lists six main things you should consider before buying any reseller package .

1: Control Panel and WHW(Web Host Manager)

This one is ranked number one I guess. Make sure you get a control panel , Cpanel is best and widely used control panel for any reseller and non reseller accounts.WHM(Web Host Manger) lets you easily manage your customers and hosting business.It lets you set up , delete , monitor web hosting accounts.

I heard that some companies which offer reseller hosting packages set up accounts for you . You shouldn't go with such companies because You want to manage your customers and Your customers want their own control panel where they can manage their sites.

So you need to make sure that you get Control Panel and WHM with reseller package you get .Also any account you create should get its own control panel without paying any extra $$$.

2: Private Name Servers and Dedicated IP address.

These two are very important if you want to keep people from knowing original hosting company.If you don't have a private name server then you will be using original hosting company's name servers ,e.g. ns1.hostingcompany.com and ns2.hostingcompany.You don't want people to make a who is search and find out about that original hosting company . In order to hide original hosting company you must be able to make your own private name servers. Most of times companies that offer reseller packages give you that but sometimes you need to ask them before making any payment .

Why do you need a dedicated IP address for your site and sites you are going to host? Well here is answer . When you get a reseller hosting package , you don't get a dedicated IP address instead you will have to use shared IP address which company is using .Even though you can hide them with your private name servers but it will be easy to find them if IP is resolved.There are many tools out there that can be used to find out such things, so wouldn't it be better if you were using an IP address that your site and sites you host will be using instead of one which company and millions of their shared hosting customers are using? I'm sure it would be.But getting a dedicated IP address can cost you like $2-$5 per month and as you can see it worths .After all you don't want potential clients to go the original company so make sure you get those two ready for your new hosting company .