Definition of Hosting Reseller
There are a lot of ways of generating profit on the Internet and one of them is to sell the shared hosting services furnished by a given web hosting vendor. This provides immense options for everyone who wishes to make more revenue. There are various sorts of hosting reseller services, based on the reseller's degree of involvement and, of course, on the hosting distributor that offers the service. Before going into that, let's first discuss
What is a hosting reseller service?
A hosting reseller solution is a type of hosting account, which enables the user to set up different subaccounts that can be sold to various clients. This is chiefly achieved by bestowing the reseller with access to a main hosting reseller account, via which he can set up different hosting accounts using the hosting server hard disk space offered by the hosting reseller plan, for which he pays a certain charge. This is much like the shared web hosting solution and just like it, with most hosting reseller programs, lots of hosting reseller accounts share one single server and are not furnished with full root-level access to the server config files. Such reseller hosting programs are generally not that expensive. Yet, they do hamper the hosting resellers from supplying other forms of hosting solutions beside shared packages.
Different kinds of hosting reseller solutions
Aside from the abovementioned manner of hosting reseller accounts, there are also several other ways that work just as good. Yet, they vary in terms of the levels of participation and the amount of resources that each one of them involves. As mentioned above, the most popular way of reselling web hosting services offers you limited opportunities and you risk forfeiting your money if things go wrong. This is the reason why, larger web hosts such as ResellersPanel.com provide different methods of selling hosting plans without the need to purchase anything upfront, or to even cope with the provision of customer and billing support. With their program, the web hosting reseller subscribes free of cost and selects his own retail prices for the services, which are being offered directly from his online store. As invoicing transactions are taken care of by ResellersPanel.com's staff, the reseller does not need to pay for the hosting service beforehand. He's just going to obtain the difference between the retail price and the wholesale price as a commission. The reseller also has the possibility to deliver hosing services such as VPS hosting, semi-dedicated server hosting and dedicated server. More or less, his role involves promoting the web hosting service and providing support to the end customers and with companies that do not request preliminary charges and take care of the billing and customer support provision, the sole duty left for the web hosting reseller will be to promote his private brand's online storefront. Another option will be to set up different user accounts on a private virtual web hosting server, or on a dedicated web server. With the majority of web hosting distributors, you may obtain those two web hosting services with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some other hosting CP, pre-installed on them. That will enable you to set up various shared web hosting plans and have full authority over both the clients and the server itself. In addition, on a dedicated server, you may create various VPS hosting accounts and sell them to your clients. One single dedicated server may host thousands of virtual private web hosting server accounts, based on the web server's specs. This will allow you to sell a bigger assortment of web hosting services to your clients, which will provide you with more alternatives when popularizing your online storefront. Of course, using a private virtual web server or a dedicated server for hosting reseller goals is much more expensive than using a regular hosting reseller account. Thus, this opportunity should be examined only on condition that the web hosting reseller has enough understanding and practice necessary to manage a web hosting server, otherwise it's recommendable to either register for a normal hosting reseller program, or for the abovementioned Free Reseller Program provided by ResellersPanel.com, which requires less involvement from the reseller.