Using API's for reselling from different companies

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Posted by campbellt, 05-21-2007, 06:14 PM
I am considering a reseller business delivered from my own company website using API's from various hosting providers. My question is if I use the API to offer web hosting from company X, and the API for ordering MS Exchange hosting from company Y and the API for Domain registration and management from Company Z will my clients experience any problems? If I understand it correctly there shouldn't be any DNS issues as long as the MX records and the A name and C name records point to the correct Name servers for the hosting providers of X and Y. Is this correct? Is there anything else here form a technical point I should be aware of? Thanks in advance
Posted by mrzippy, 05-21-2007, 06:37 PM
I'm not sure I understand. Basically, you just want to reseller services for other company's, right? And the way you will do this is by using the other company's API? ie: You get a customer who wants hosting, so you connect to your supplier's API and create the account? If so, I can't see any problems as long as you are careful about what nameservers are pointing to which providers, etc...
Posted by campbellt, 05-21-2007, 06:42 PM
Thanks for the quick feedback. The name servers was the key to my question - so thanks for confirming my thoughts which are the same as yours. I was wanting to make sure that I had understood the potential issues correctly. Does anyone else have anything to add?
Posted by httpsolution, 05-22-2007, 09:25 PM
The only thing I can think about is the "self-management" options you will offer to your customers. How will you deal with customers that purchase options from all of your providers? Having multiple logins can become a turn-off for your clients. Especially since it would appear to them that they are purchasing all their services from one place.

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