What is Web Hosting Reseller?

There are a lot of ways of gaining profit on the web and one of them is to resell the web hosting solutions provided by a given hosting accounts provider. This offers endless options for everyone who would like to earn more profit. There are different varieties of web hosting reseller solutions, based on the hosting reseller's level of involvement and, of course, on the hosting service provider that offers the web hosting service. Prior to looking into that, let's first examine

What is a web hosting reseller service?

A web hosting reseller solution is a sort of hosting account, which permits the reseller to create separate subaccounts that can be offered to different clients. This is typically accomplished by furnishing the user with access to a master web hosting reseller account, via which he can set up different hosting accounts with the server hard drive space provided by the web hosting reseller plan, for which he pays a certain charge. This is a lot like the shared web hosting solution and exactly like it, with most web hosting reseller programs, many reseller hosting accounts share the very same hosting server and do not have full root access to the web server config files. Such reseller web hosting programs are generally not that expensive. Yet, they do hinder the resellers from distributing other forms of hosting services beside shared packages.

Different forms of web hosting reseller services

Aside from the aforementioned mode of web hosting reseller plans, there are also several other setups that work just as fine. Yet, they contrast in terms of the degrees of involvement and the budget amount that each of them involves. As already mentioned, the most common mode of selling hosting solutions gives you limited opportunities and you risk forfeiting your investment if things don't go well. That is the reason why, larger hosting corporations such as ResellersPanel.com provide different modes of reselling web hosting accounts without having to pay for anything in advance, or to even deal with the provision of customer and invoicing support. With their reseller web hosting program, the web hosting reseller subscribes for free and designates his own personal retail prices for the web hosting solutions, which are being offered directly from his web store. Because billing transactions are tackled by ResellersPanel.com's staff, the client does not need to pay for the web hosting service beforehand. He's simply going to get the difference between the retail and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The reseller also has the possibility to resell web hosting services such as VPS hosting services, semi-dedicated hosting services and dedicated hosting. More or less, his role entails advertising the web hosting service and providing support to the end clients and with hosting firms that do not request preliminary fees and handle the billing and customer support provision, the sole task left for the hosting reseller will be to advertise his personal brand's web store. Another option will be to create different accounts on a private virtual web hosting server, or on a dedicated server. With most web hosts, you may obtain those two hosting solutions with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some different hosting Control Panel, already installed on them. That will permit you to create various shared hosting plans and have full authority over both the users and the server itself. Furthermore, on a dedicated web hosting server, you may set up different VPS hosting accounts and sell them to your clients. A single dedicated server may shelter 1000's of private virtual web server accounts, based on the server's specs. This will permit you to provide a more extensive assortment of web hosting solutions to your customers, which will furnish you with more options when popularizing your web storefront. Of course, utilizing a virtual web hosting server or a dedicated hosting web server for web hosting reseller purposes is much more costly than using a regular web hosting reseller user account. Because of this reason, this opportunity should be examined only if the web hosting reseller has sufficient ability and experience necessary to manage a web server, otherwise it's recommended to either register for a regular web hosting reseller program, or for the aforementioned Free Reseller Program courtesy of ResellersPanel.com, which requires less dedication from the web hosting reseller.