What Exactly is Reseller Hosting?
There are plenty of ways of earning cash on the World Wide Web and one of them is to resell the web hosting solutions offered by a certain web hosting solutions provider. This provides boundless opportunities for everybody who wishes to earn supplementary cash. There are several sorts of reseller hosting services, based on the web hosting reseller's level of involvement and, of course, on the company that offers the hosting service. Before going into that, let's first analyze
What is a reseller hosting service?
A reseller hosting service is a sort of web hosting account, which permits the reseller to set up various sub-accounts that can be sold to various clients. This is generally achieved by furnishing the reseller with access to a main reseller hosting account, via which he can create various hosting accounts utilizing the web hosting server disk storage space included in the reseller hosting plan, for which he pays a given charge. This is much similar to the shared hosting solution and exactly like it, with the majority of reseller hosting programs, a lot of reseller web hosting accounts share a single web server and do not have full server root access to the server config files. Such web hosting reseller programs are typically not that high-priced. Still, they do hinder the hosting resellers from providing other sorts of web hosting solutions aside from shared hosting packages.
Various varieties of reseller hosting services
Apart from the abovementioned method of reseller hosting accounts, there are also several other ways that work just as fine. Still, they contrast in terms of the levels of participation and the amount of funds that each one of them entails. As stated above, the most popular way of selling web hosting solutions gives you limited alternatives and you risk forfeiting your cash if things don't go well. This is why, larger hosting companies like ResellersPanel.com offer different methods of reselling web hosting plans without having to pay for anything in advance, or to even take care of the provision of customer and billing support. With their reseller web hosting program, the hosting reseller signs up free of charge and fixes his own personal retail prices for the web hosting solutions, which are being sold directly from his web storefront. Since invoicing transactions are handled by ResellersPanel.com's personnel, the customer does not have to buy the service in advance. He's just going to get the difference between the retail and the wholesale price as a commission. The hosting reseller also has the option to provide web hosting solutions such as VPS hosting plans, semi-dedicated hosting plans and dedicated hosting. More or less, his job entails popularizing the service and providing support to the end clients and with hosting corporations that do not demand upfront installments and tackle the invoicing and customer support provision, the only task left for the web hosting reseller will be to advertise his personal brand's online store. Another alternative will be to create separate user accounts on a VPS web server, or on a dedicated hosting server. With the majority of hosting firms, you may receive those two hosting services with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or another hosting Control Panel, already installed on them. That will enable you to set up various shared hosting packages and exert full authority over both the clients and the hosting server itself. Also, on a dedicated hosting server, you may create various private virtual web server accounts and sell them to your customers. One dedicated server may host 1000's of VPS hosting accounts, based on the server's architecture. This will enable you to offer a bigger variety of web hosting services to your customers, which will give you more options when promoting your online store. By all means, utilizing a VPS web hosting server or a dedicated web server for reseller hosting goals is much more expensive than utilizing a regular reseller hosting account. That is why, this option should be considered only on condition that the hosting reseller has sufficient ability and training demanded to administer a server, otherwise it's recommended to either opt for an average reseller hosting program, or for the already mentioned Free Reseller Program courtesy of ResellersPanel.com, which requests less participation from the hosting reseller.