What is Reseller Hosting?

There are a lot of ways of earning revenue online and one of them is to resell the shared hosting services provided by a certain hosting firm. This provides limitless possibilities for everyone who wants to generate additional revenue. There are various types of reseller hosting solutions, depending on the web hosting reseller's degree of commitment and, of course, on the company that offers the web hosting service. Prior to going into that, let us first examine

What is a reseller hosting service?

A reseller hosting solution is a kind of web hosting account, which allows the user to create separate sub-accounts that can be sold to various customers. This is usually accomplished by furnishing the reseller with access to a master reseller hosting account, through which he can create different hosting accounts with the web hosting server disk storage space included in the reseller hosting plan, for which he pays a certain fee. This is much similar to the shared hosting service and exactly like it, with most reseller hosting programs, many reseller accounts share a single web server and do not have root access to the web server config files. Such reseller programs are generally not that costly. However, they do bar the resellers from delivering other forms of web hosting solutions apart from shared packages.

Different kinds of reseller hosting services

Aside from the aforementioned mode of reseller hosting accounts, there are also a few other setups that work just as good. Still, they contrast in terms of the levels of participation and the amount of money that each of them involves. As already stated, the most common method of reselling web hosting solutions offers you restricted possibilities and you risk losing your funds if things don't work out. For that reason, bigger hosting corporations such as ResellersPanel.com offer alternative methods of reselling hosting plans without having to buy anything upfront, or to even get involved in the provision of technical and billing support. With their hosting reseller program, the hosting reseller signs up free of cost and chooses his own personal retail prices for the hosting plans, which are being sold straight from his web storefront. Since billing transactions are handled by ResellersPanel.com's team, the reseller does not have to buy the hosting service upfront. He's just going to get the difference between the retail and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The reseller also has the possibility to distribute hosing services like virtual private servers, semi-dedicated servers and dedicated server. More or less, his role involves promoting the hosting service and offering support to the end clients and with web hosting companies that do not demand upfront charges and take care of the invoicing and technical support provision, the sole task left for the web hosting reseller will be to popularize his personal brand's web store. Another alternative will be to set up separate user accounts on a Virtual Private Server, or on a dedicated server. With most service providers, you may obtain those 2 hosting services with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some other hosting Control Panel, pre-installed on them. That will allow you to set up different shared hosting accounts and exert total control over both the users and the server itself. Moreover, on a dedicated hosting server, you may set up various Virtual Private Server accounts and sell them to your clients. One single dedicated web server may keep 1000's of virtual private web hosting server accounts, based on the web server's architecture. This will allow you to sell a larger assortment of hosting solutions to your clients, which will present you with more possibilities when advertising your web storefront. Sure enough, using a virtual server or a dedicated web hosting server for reseller hosting objectives is much more expensive than utilizing a normal reseller hosting account. This is why, this opportunity should be contemplated only in case the reseller has sufficient ability and training needed to manage a hosting server, otherwise it's recommended to either sign up for a conventional reseller hosting program, or for the aforementioned Free Reseller Program courtesy of ResellersPanel.com, which requests less dedication from the web hosting reseller.