What is Web Hosting Reseller?
There are lots of means of making revenue on the Internet and one of them is to resell the web hosting solutions provided by a given host. This presents vast possibilities for everyone who wants to generate supplementary profit. There are several types of web hosting reseller solutions, depending on the web hosting reseller's level of responsibility and, of course, on the web hosting provider that offers the web hosting service. Prior to looking into that, let us first discuss
What is a web hosting reseller solution?
A web hosting reseller service is a type of web hosting user account, which permits the user to create different sub-accounts that can be resold to various clients. This is mainly accomplished by giving the reseller access to a main web hosting reseller account, via which he can create separate hosting accounts using the space provided by the web hosting reseller plan, for which he pays a certain tax. This is much similar to the shared web hosting service and precisely like it, with most web hosting reseller programs, lots of web hosting reseller accounts share one and the same web hosting server and are not furnished with complete root access to the server configuration files. Such reseller web hosting programs are generally not that expensive. However, they do deter the hosting resellers from selling other kinds of web hosting services apart from shared packages.
Various forms of web hosting reseller solutions
Beside the abovementioned method of web hosting reseller accounts, there are also several different setups that work just as good. Yet, they contrast in terms of the degrees of participation and the amount of cash that each of them demands. As already mentioned, the most popular mode of selling web hosting solutions offers you limited opportunities and you risk losing your money if things don't go well. This is why, bigger hosting distributors such as ResellersPanel.com offer different methods of selling web hosting plans without the need to pay for anything in advance, or to even get involved in the provision of customer and billing support. With their web hosting reseller program, the reseller signs up for free and sets his own retail prices for the hosting accounts, which are being sold straight from his web store. As invoicing transactions are taken care of by ResellersPanel.com's staff, the customer does not have to pay for the web hosting service in advance. He's only going to obtain the difference between the retail price and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The hosting reseller also has the possibility to sell web hosting services such as VPS hosting services, semi-dedicated hosting services and dedicated hosting. More or less, his role involves promoting the service and offering support to the end clients and with web hosts that do not request preliminary installments and are responsible for the invoicing and customer support provision, the only task left for the hosting reseller will be to popularize his private brand's web storefront. Another alternative will be to set up different accounts on a virtual private web hosting server, or on a dedicated server. With most hosting service providers, you may get those two hosting services with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some different Control Panel, pre-installed on them. That will enable you to set up various shared hosting plans and exercise full authority over both the users and the hosting server itself. Additionally, on a dedicated hosting web server, you may create various VPS hosting server accounts and offer them to your clients. A single dedicated web server may keep thousands of virtual private web server hosting accounts, depending on the server's specs. This will allow you to provide a wider array of web hosting solutions to your clients, which will present you with more options when popularizing your online store. Of course, using a Virtual Private Server or a dedicated server for web hosting reseller purposes is much more expensive than having a conventional web hosting reseller account. For this reason, this option should be examined only in case the hosting reseller has enough understanding and training needed to administer a server, otherwise it's advisable to either sign up for a normal web hosting reseller program, or for the abovementioned Free Reseller Program offered by ResellersPanel.com, which requests less involvement from the reseller.