What Exactly is Web Hosting Reseller?

There are lots of means of making revenue on the Internet and one of them is to sell the hosting services supplied by a given web hosting services provider. This presents immense opportunities for everyone who wishes to make more money. There are various varieties of web hosting reseller services, depending on the reseller's degree of involvement and, of course, on the web hosting provider that provides the web hosting service. Prior to looking into that, let us first examine

What is a web hosting reseller service?

A web hosting reseller service is a sort of hosting account, which allows the reseller to set up various subaccounts that can be offered to various clients. This is mainly achieved by supplying the reseller with access to a master web hosting reseller account, through which he can create separate hosting accounts using the server hard disk space provided by the web hosting reseller plan, for which he pays a given charge. This is much like the shared hosting service and exactly like it, with most web hosting reseller programs, a lot of web hosting reseller accounts share one web server and do not obtain complete server root access to the web server config files. Such hosting reseller programs are generally not that high-priced. Yet, they do deter the hosting resellers from furnishing other kinds of web hosting services beside shared plans.

Various sorts of web hosting reseller solutions

Beside the already mentioned manner of web hosting reseller packages, there are also a few different schemes that work just as good. However, they vary in terms of the levels of commitment and the amount of resources that each of them involves. As stated above, the most popular way of selling web hosting solutions offers you restricted opportunities and you risk losing your funds if things don't work out. For that reason, larger hosts like ResellersPanel.com provide alternative modes of reselling hosting packages without having to buy anything upfront, or to even deal with the provision of technical and invoicing support. With their reseller hosting program, the reseller registers for free and specifies his very own personal retail prices for the hosting plans, which are being sold straight from his online storefront. Because billing transactions are handled by ResellersPanel.com's team, the reseller does not have to purchase the web hosting service beforehand. He's only going to receive the difference between the retail price and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The reseller also has the chance to resell hosing solutions like VPS services, semi-dedicated services and dedicated server. More or less, his role involves promoting the hosting service and offering support to the end clients and with hosting vendors that do not demand upfront payments and handle the invoicing and client support provision, the sole duty left for the reseller will be to popularize his private brand's web storefront. Another option will be to set up different accounts on a VPS, or on a dedicated web hosting server. With most hosting companies, you may get those 2 web hosting solutions with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some other hosting CP, pre-installed on them. That will permit you to set up different shared hosting packages and exert absolute control over both the customers and the web server itself. What is more, on a dedicated hosting server, you may create separate Virtual Private Server hosting accounts and sell them to your customers. One single dedicated server may hold 1000's of VPS server accounts, depending on the server's specs. This will enable you to offer a more extensive array of web hosting services to your customers, which will offer you more opportunities when popularizing your web storefront. Surely, using a virtual hosting server or a dedicated web hosting server for web hosting reseller goals is much more expensive than using a standard web hosting reseller user account. So, this opportunity should be considered only if the reseller has sufficient understanding and practice demanded to manage a hosting server, otherwise it's recommendable to either register for a normal web hosting reseller program, or for the abovementioned Free Reseller Program courtesy of ResellersPanel.com, which requires less involvement from the hosting reseller.