What is Reseller Hosting?

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by Matt Hedges

The next step that you need to take after choosing a web-host for your site is to zero down upon a proper hosting plan. Depending on your needs, reseller web hosting may be the best option for you, even if you aren’t a web hosting reseller. It all depends on your monetary ability to provide for the plan and hence if you run a relatively smaller website your preference will be unlike what you’ll choose for a profitable site. The options presented vary between these: hosting for one little website, for a relatively larger one, for a mega-site, or a hosting plan that you can employ to extend into a network of websites.

So it is important that you decide between a starter plan that hosts a large website and a it also provides a over more than one domain. The other choice is of a server, these servers are expensive and they are mainly used for business purposes as they are able to host a network of various sites.

For those venturing into business projects regarding the internet, you will need a larger website as your demand increases. Similarly for a web designer, once you fruitfully design a website you gather more demands for similar stuff. To avoid spending a lot of time while setting up a new project, what you require is a flexible, suitable and affordable plan. And the answer to all these factors is procuring a reseller hosting package.

Also, rather than running a web server, you can run your production all by yourself. This gives you ample space in your account which can be used for many projects, and which would lead to cost reduction as you would be able to offer other people the space that they require. Even in this case, reseller hosting is the best option to select.

In fact, you can take on reseller hosting as a job as well, since many people earn a lot of money of this business. To cite an instance, let’s assume that you spend $50 for purchasing a reseller hosting account which provides you with hundreds of domains and accounts. Then, you can sell each of these domains for about $10. So that would easily fetch you $1,000 for an investment of just $50. The only requirement would be that you would have to set up the accounts of the clients, solve the problems that they encounter, and give them proper technical support. The web hosting company normally takes care of these issues so it certainly won’t be a major issue for you. You may have to spend some money for advertising your business but given the profits you can earn from it, the money spent is worth it!

What is meant by reseller hosting?

Basically, it is a kind of web hosting which enables you to use your hard drive space and the bandwidth as well, for hosting websites on a third party’s behalf. Your job is to act as a reseller and as such, you can buy the facilities provided by the host and sell those to other clients at a high price, making a good profit in the bargain. You can collect the charges for the bandwidth and the hard drive from your customer. So it may be said that the reseller leases a dedicated server from a web hosting company to a third party. By just reselling the services, you are not required to take a server on rent from the web hosting company.

Most of the resellers are the ones who either web developers or who run web designs. In case of fresher, reseller hosting is a cheap and economical way in which they can start off with their own business. Even in the case of more experience people such as web masters and also internet consultants reseller hosting is a very lucrative avenue. Here most of the hosting resellers give full independence to the individual resellers to have their own service and fees structure.

Let us have a look at the bright side of this system.

First of all, you need not have a sound and technical knowledge of how web hosting works. The owner of a dedicated server will take care of the server and its configuration, since that’s his responsibility. He prima facie also take the responsibility of security and updates made to it as per your requirement, while the main responsibility of the operator of the data center is to maintain the hardware and the infrastructure requirements. As a reseller, your job would be to provide answers to the problems faced by the customers, but all the problems regarding software, hardware and configuration are forwarded to the provider of the server. The resellers can gain web supervision over the accounts of the customers by using the Control Panels. A soft ware “Modern Bill” provides great help to resellers due to its facility of automatically creating and billing accounts. Some of the listed Control Panels are:

Helm- Windows

WHM/cPanel- Unix

Helm- Windows

Webmin- Unix

Ensim Pro- Windows/Unix

DirectAdmin- Unix

Out of the ones that are mentioned above, the best is cPanel reseller hosting. There are numerous advantages of reseller hosting and here we shall mention a few of them, first of the thing to be noted is that there a lot of both short term as well as long term benefits for the reseller. You can allow your own instincts and make your own decisions without having to report to the host or without having to take his approval. There are some server owners who also allow you to have a separate IP address for the name severs. You have the privilege of hosting as many websites as you want within the required disk space and bandwidth. Another striking feature of reseller account is that you can expand your account as you desire because there is a lot of flexibility.

Most of the resellers provide a package deal to the customers and also provide discount that reach up to 50% to the resellers, this discount is given on the price of the initial reseller hosting account. Reseller hosting is a perfect answer for all the people who wish to have reliable and consistent performance in their business.

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