Reseller Hosting Definition

There are many means of making revenue on the Internet and one of them is to resell the shared hosting solutions offered by a particular web hosting solutions provider. This offers immeasurable possibilities for everyone who wishes to make supplementary money. There are several varieties of reseller hosting services, based on the web hosting reseller's level of involvement and, of course, on the provider that provides the web hosting service. Before going into that, let's first explore

What is a reseller hosting service?

A reseller hosting service is a kind of hosting account, which allows the reseller to set up various sub-accounts that can be sold to different customers. This is mainly carried out by giving the reseller access to a main reseller hosting account, via which he can create different web hosting accounts utilizing the server disk drive space included in the reseller hosting plan, for which he pays a certain price. This is much similar to the shared hosting service and exactly like it, with most reseller hosting programs, numerous web hosting reseller accounts share one single web hosting server and are not bestowed with complete root-level access to the server config files. Such reseller hosting programs are usually not that expensive. However, they do hinder the hosting resellers from providing other types of web hosting services aside from shared packages.

Various forms of reseller hosting solutions

Aside from the aforementioned manner of reseller hosting packages, there are also several different ways that work just as fine. However, they contrast with respect to the degrees of involvement and the budget amount that each one of them involves. As already mentioned, the most common mode of reselling hosting solutions offers you limited possibilities and you risk losing your capital if things don't go well. That is why, larger web hosting corporations such as ResellersPanel.com offer alternative modes of selling hosting packages without the need to buy anything beforehand, or to even be responsible for the provision of client and invoicing support. With their reseller hosting program, the web hosting reseller registers for free and sets his own personal retail prices for the hosting solutions, which are being sold straight from his online store. Because invoicing transactions are handled by ResellersPanel.com's team, the client does not have to buy the service in advance. He's simply going to receive the difference between the retail and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The reseller also has the chance to supply hosing services such as virtual private servers, semi-dedicated servers and dedicated server. More or less, his duty involves popularizing the hosting service and offering support to the end users and with hosting service providers that do not require preliminary charges and are responsible for the invoicing and customer support provision, the only duty left for the web hosting reseller will be to advertise his private brand's online store. Another possibility will be to set up separate accounts on a VPS web server, or on a dedicated hosting web server. With the majority of service providers, you may obtain those 2 hosting services with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some different web hosting Control Panel, pre-installed on them. That will allow you to set up different shared web hosting accounts and exert absolute authority over both the customers and the hosting server itself. Moreover, on a dedicated hosting web server, you may set up separate private virtual web server accounts and offer them to your clients. One dedicated server may hold thousands of VPS web hosting accounts, depending on the server's specs. This will allow you to offer a bigger array of web hosting services to your clients, which will present you with more options when promoting your online storefront. Certainly, using a virtual server or a dedicated hosting server for reseller hosting objectives is much more costly than using a normal reseller hosting user account. Therefore, this possibility should be contemplated only if the hosting reseller has enough understanding and training necessary to handle a web server, otherwise it's recommendable to either register for a standard reseller hosting program, or for the already mentioned Free Reseller Program courtesy of ResellersPanel.com, which requires less involvement from the reseller.