How Does Reseller Hosting Operate?
There are a lot of ways of gaining money online and one of them is to resell the hosting solutions offered by a particular web hosting company. This presents immense opportunities for everybody who wants to generate supplementary revenue. There are several kinds of reseller hosting services, depending on the web hosting reseller's level of responsibility and, of course, on the web hosting corporation that provides the service. Before going into that, let us first check out
What is a reseller hosting service?
A reseller hosting service is a type of web hosting user account, which permits the user to create separate subaccounts that can be sold to different customers. This is commonly accomplished by supplying the user with access to a master reseller hosting account, via which he can create separate hosting accounts availing of the hosting server hard disk storage space included in the reseller hosting package, for which he pays a certain charge. This is much like the shared web hosting service and precisely like it, with the majority of reseller hosting programs, numerous web hosting reseller accounts share one and the same web hosting server and do not obtain full server root access to the web server config files. Such reseller hosting programs are generally not that expensive. However, they do bar the resellers from furnishing other kinds of hosting solutions beside shared hosting packages.
Different types of reseller hosting services
Aside from the already mentioned way of reseller hosting accounts, there are also a few other setups that work just as good. Yet, they vary in terms of the levels of participation and the budget amount that each one of them presupposes. As mentioned above, the most popular method of selling hosting solutions offers you limited possibilities and you risk losing your cash if things don't go well. Because of this, larger web hosting corporations like ResellersPanel.com offer different modes of reselling hosting plans without the need to purchase anything upfront, or to even cope with the provision of client and billing support. With their program, the web hosting reseller subscribes free of charge and defines his own retail prices for the hosting plans, which are being offered straight from his online storefront. Since invoicing transactions are handled by ResellersPanel.com's staff, the user does not have to purchase the service upfront. He's just going to get the difference between the retail price and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The hosting reseller also has the option to offer web hosting solutions such as VPS services, semi-dedicated services and dedicated server. More or less, his role entails promoting the service and offering support to the end customers and with web hosting service providers that do not request upfront payments and deal with the invoicing and customer support provision, the only responsibility left for the reseller will be to advertise his personal brand's online storefront. Another possibility will be to set up different user accounts on a virtual web server, or on a dedicated hosting server. With the majority of hosting vendors, you may receive those two hosting solutions 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 have full control over both the customers and the hosting server itself. Additionally, on a dedicated web hosting server, you may create separate virtual private hosting server accounts and resell them to your customers. One dedicated server may accommodate thousands of private virtual server accounts, based on the web server's specifications. This will enable you to offer a larger variety of web hosting services to your customers, which will present you with more alternatives when advertising your web storefront. Sure enough, using a virtual private web hosting server or a dedicated server for reseller hosting goals is much more expensive than using a regular reseller hosting account. For this reason, this opportunity should be examined only in case the reseller has sufficient ability and practice necessary to handle a web server, otherwise it's recommendable to either opt for a conventional reseller hosting program, or for the aforementioned Free Reseller Program provided by ResellersPanel.com, which requests less commitment from the web hosting reseller.