What Actually is Reseller Hosting?
There are lots of ways of gaining revenue on the web and one of them is to resell the shared hosting services supplied by a particular web hosting corporation. This provides infinite opportunities for everybody who would like to generate extra revenue. There are various varieties of reseller hosting solutions, depending on the reseller's degree of involvement and, of course, on the web hosting supplier that offers the hosting service. Prior to looking into that, let's first discuss
What is a reseller hosting service?
A reseller hosting service is a type of hosting account, which enables the reseller to set up separate subaccounts that can be sold to various clients. This is commonly accomplished by giving the reseller access to a main reseller hosting account, through which he can create separate web hosting accounts with the web server hard drive space offered by the reseller hosting package, for which he pays a given fee. This is much similar to the shared web hosting service and precisely like it, with most reseller hosting programs, lots of reseller accounts share one server and are not given root access to the server configuration files. Such hosting reseller programs are normally not that high-priced. Yet, they do hinder the resellers from distributing other forms of hosting solutions except shared web hosting plans.
Different sorts of reseller hosting services
Beside the abovementioned mode of reseller hosting packages, there are also a few other schemes that work just as fine. Still, they differ in terms of the levels of participation and the amount of funds that each one of them presupposes. As mentioned above, the most common method of reselling hosting solutions offers you limited options and you risk forfeiting your cash if things don't work out. This is the reason why, bigger web hosting firms such as ResellersPanel.com offer alternative ways of selling hosting packages without having to purchase anything upfront, or to even deal with the provision of customer and billing support. With their web hosting reseller program, the hosting reseller signs up free of cost and defines his very own personal retail prices for the solutions, which are being offered directly from his web store. Since billing transactions are tackled by ResellersPanel.com's personnel, the customer does not have to buy the web hosting service beforehand. He's only going to get the difference between the retail and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The web hosting reseller also has the option to provide web hosting services such as VPS hosting, semi-dedicated hosting and dedicated hosting. More or less, his role entails promoting the web hosting service and providing support to the end customers and with hosting vendors that do not require preliminary taxes and tackle the invoicing and client support provision, the only assignment left for the web hosting reseller will be to advertise his private brand's online store. Another option will be to set up different user accounts on a Virtual Private Server, or on a dedicated web server. With the majority of web hosting distributors, you may obtain those 2 hosting solutions with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some other hosting Control Panel, already installed on them. That will enable you to create different shared web hosting packages and have total control over both the clients and the server itself. Additionally, on a dedicated server, you may create different virtual private hosting server accounts and sell them to your clients. One dedicated web server may host thousands of VPS server accounts, depending on the web server's architecture. This will enable you to provide a more extensive assortment of services to your clients, which will provide you with more alternatives when promoting your online storefront. By all means, using a VPS or a dedicated web hosting server for reseller hosting objectives is much more expensive than having an average reseller hosting account. For this reason, this possibility should be contemplated only in case the web hosting reseller has sufficient ability and experience needed to administer a server, otherwise it's recommendable to either register for a normal reseller hosting program, or for the already mentioned Free Reseller Program courtesy of ResellersPanel.com, which demands less commitment from the reseller.