Hosting Reseller Explained

There are lots of means of earning cash on the web and one of them is to resell the web hosting services supplied by a particular web hosting vendor. This offers vast possibilities for everybody who would like to generate supplementary money. There are several sorts of hosting reseller services, depending on the web hosting reseller's degree of commitment and, of course, on the web hosting corporation that offers the hosting service. Before looking into that, let us first explore

What is a hosting reseller service?

A hosting reseller service is a kind of web hosting user account, which allows the reseller to create separate subaccounts that can be resold to various customers. This is generally carried out by supplying the reseller with access to a main hosting reseller account, through which he can create separate hosting accounts using the web hosting server hard disk storage space provided by the hosting reseller package, for which he pays a given price. This is a lot like the shared hosting solution and just like it, with the majority of hosting reseller programs, lots of reseller web hosting accounts share the same web server and do not obtain complete server root access to the web server configuration files. Such reseller hosting programs are typically not that expensive. Still, they do prevent the resellers from offering other forms of web hosting services aside from shared hosting plans.

Various varieties of hosting reseller services

Apart from the already mentioned manner of hosting reseller accounts, there are also several different ways that work just as good. Yet, they differ with respect to the degrees of participation and the amount of money that each one of them presupposes. As already stated, the most common method of selling web hosting services gives you limited alternatives and you risk losing your investment if things don't work out. For this reason, larger hosts like ResellersPanel.com provide alternative ways of reselling web hosting packages without having to pay for anything in advance, or to even be involved in the provision of technical and invoicing support. With their hosting reseller program, the web hosting reseller signs up free of cost and designates his very own retail prices for the web hosting packages, which are being offered straight from his web storefront. Because billing transactions are handled by ResellersPanel.com's staff, the customer does not need to pay for the hosting service beforehand. He's simply going to obtain the difference between the retail price and the wholesale price as a commission. The web hosting reseller also has the opportunity to distribute web hosting services like VPS hosting packages, semi-dedicated hosting packages and dedicated hosting. More or less, his duty involves promoting the web hosting service and offering support to the end clients and with web hosting corporations that do not request upfront fees and cope with the invoicing and technical support provision, the only duty left for the reseller will be to popularize his private brand's online storefront. Another possibility will be to set up separate accounts on a VPS, or on a dedicated web hosting server. With most web hosting providers, you may obtain those 2 hosting solutions with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or another CP, already installed on them. That will permit you to create various shared hosting accounts and have total control over both the users and the web server itself. Moreover, on a dedicated web hosting server, you may create separate VPS web server accounts and sell them to your customers. One dedicated web server may store 1000's of private virtual server accounts, based on the server's architecture. This will permit you to deliver a wider array of hosting services to your customers, which will give you more options when popularizing your web store. Certainly, utilizing a private virtual server or a dedicated web hosting server for hosting reseller objectives is much more costly than utilizing an ordinary hosting reseller user account. This is why, this option should be considered only if the reseller has enough knowledge and experience needed to administer a web server, otherwise it's advisable to either opt for an average hosting reseller program, or for the aforementioned Free Reseller Program provided by ResellersPanel.com, which requires less participation from the hosting reseller.