What Actually is Reseller Hosting?
There are a lot of ways of gaining profit on the World Wide Web and one of them is to resell the hosting services provided by some hosting plans provider. This presents endless opportunities for everyone who desires to generate supplementary profit. There are various types of reseller hosting solutions, based on the reseller's level of participation and, of course, on the web hosting service provider that offers the service. Prior to looking into that, let's first discuss
What is a reseller hosting service?
A reseller hosting solution is a kind of hosting user account, which enables the user to create various subaccounts that can be sold to various customers. This is mostly achieved by offering the user access to a master reseller hosting account, through which he can set up different hosting accounts with the web content space included in the reseller hosting package, for which he pays a certain fee. This is a lot similar to the shared web hosting service and just like it, with the majority of reseller hosting programs, multiple reseller web hosting accounts share one hosting server and do not obtain complete root-level access to the server config files. Such hosting reseller programs are normally not that expensive. Still, they do hamper the resellers from selling other forms of web hosting solutions beside shared hosting packages.
Different types of reseller hosting services
Beside the already mentioned mode of reseller hosting accounts, there are also several other ways that work just as fine. However, they contrast with respect to the levels of commitment and the amount of funds that each one of them necessitates. As stated above, the most popular mode of selling hosting solutions gives you restricted possibilities and you risk losing your investment if things don't go well. Because of this, bigger web hosting vendors such as ResellersPanel.com provide alternative methods of selling web hosting accounts without the need to purchase anything upfront, or to even become involved in the provision of technical and billing support. With their hosting reseller program, the reseller subscribes free of cost and sets his very own retail prices for the hosting packages, which are being offered straight from his online store. Because billing transactions are taken care of by ResellersPanel.com's staff, the reseller does not have to purchase the hosting service beforehand. He's only going to obtain the difference between the retail and the wholesale price as a commission. The web hosting reseller also has the option to sell hosing solutions such as VPS packages, semi-dedicated packages and dedicated package. More or less, his role involves advertising the hosting service and offering support to the end clients and with hosting distributors that do not demand upfront installments and deal with the billing and technical support provision, the sole task left for the hosting reseller will be to promote his private brand's online store. Another option will be to set up different user accounts on a VPS web hosting server, or on a dedicated web server. With the majority of web hosts, you may get those two web hosting services with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some other hosting CP, pre-installed on them. That will enable you to create different shared web hosting plans and exercise absolute control over both the clients and the hosting server itself. In addition, on a dedicated web server, you may create separate virtual private hosting server accounts and resell them to your clients. One dedicated hosting web server may accommodate thousands of virtual server hosting accounts, based on the web server's configuration. This will enable you to offer a larger array of web hosting solutions to your customers, which will provide you with more alternatives when popularizing your web storefront. Sure enough, utilizing a private virtual hosting server or a dedicated hosting server for reseller hosting goals is much more expensive than utilizing an average reseller hosting account. This is why, this possibility should be examined only if the reseller has sufficient ability and experience needed to manage a web hosting server, otherwise it's recommended to either sign up for a normal reseller hosting program, or for the abovementioned Free Reseller Program courtesy of ResellersPanel.com, which demands less involvement from the web hosting reseller.