What is Reseller Hosting?
After selecting an appropriate web host, you need to further choose a plan which would suit you the most. Basically, it all depends on what your finances permit you to do, besides your requirement. This is important since the needs of a smaller website owner will be less than what would be needed by a big corporation. The hosting plans offered by the companies are meant for everyone, right from the small owners, to relatively bigger ones, to the huge website owners. The hosting plans also allow you to gain extension into a whole network of sites.
So what you essentially have to do is decide between a starter plan for the uninitiated, a plan that hosts a large website and provides for over one domain, or a dedicated server that is expensive and hosts a network of various sites for business purposes mainly.
For all the people who are entering in to the internet based business, it is a fact that they will be needing larger web sites as and when their demand increases. The case is the same even in the case of web designers, on the successful completion of a web design the demand for the web designs increases. In order to save yourself from burning a hole in your pocket while setting up any of the business project it is advisable that you have an affordable, and also a flexible plan chalked out. The best answer to and the best solution to all these concerns is reseller hosting.
Then again you could actually run your own lucrative production of web hosting instead of the facing the manifold troubles of running a web-server. What you gain through this is an abundance of space in your account for various projects, and be able to minimize your costs by (as well as profit) by offering other people the required space for their domains.
In fact, you can take on reseller hosting as a job as well, since many people earn a lot of money of this business. To cite an instance, let’s assume that you spend $50 for purchasing a reseller hosting account which provides you with hundreds of domains and accounts. Then, you can sell each of these domains for about $10. So that would easily fetch you $1,000 for an investment of just $50. The only requirement would be that you would have to set up the accounts of the clients, solve the problems that they encounter, and give them proper technical support. The web hosting company normally takes care of these issues so it certainly won’t be a major issue for you. You may have to spend some money for advertising your business but given the profits you can earn from it, the money spent is worth it!
What is meant by reseller hosting?
Basically, it is a kind of web hosting which enables you to use your hard drive space and the bandwidth as well, for hosting websites on a third party’s behalf. Your job is to act as a reseller and as such, you can buy the facilities provided by the host and sell those to other clients at a high price, making a good profit in the bargain. You can collect the charges for the bandwidth and the hard drive from your customer. So it may be said that the reseller leases a dedicated server from a web hosting company to a third party. By just reselling the services, you are not required to take a server on rent from the web hosting company.
Most resellers are those who run web design firms or are web developers, systems integrators etc who offer web-hosting facilities as an appended service. For the amateur reseller hosting is an economical way to start a company or business of their own. Reseller hosting is the ideal answer for webmasters, internet consultants or anyone wanting to start a profitable online business. Most hosting plans allow individual resellers to chalk out their own service facility plans and their own fee structure.
There are many advantages associated with such a system, some of which are mentioned below.
Firstly, you do not have to possess a thorough understanding of the technical know-how of web hosting. The dedicated server owner (the host) is responsible for the server and he configures, secures and updates it according to your need and as required, while the data center operator is accountable for maintaining the network infrastructure and the hardware required. So as a reseller you have to answer questions from the customer base and address their problems, but all hardware, software and connectivity problems are forwarded to the server provider. Through certain ‘Control Panels’ resellers can easily supervise customer accounts via a web interface. There is a software called ModernBill that helps out resellers immensely by automatic account creation and billing. Here are listed some Control Panels that you will come across:
Helm- Windows
WHM/cPanel- Unix
DirectAdmin- Unix
WHM/cPanel- Unix
Ensim Pro- Windows/Unix
Webmin- Unix
Out of the ones that are mentioned above, the best is cPanel reseller hosting. There are numerous advantages of reseller hosting and here we shall mention a few of them, first of the thing to be noted is that there a lot of both short term as well as long term benefits for the reseller. You can allow your own instincts and make your own decisions without having to report to the host or without having to take his approval. There are some server owners who also allow you to have a separate IP address for the name severs. You have the privilege of hosting as many websites as you want within the required disk space and bandwidth. Another striking feature of reseller account is that you can expand your account as you desire because there is a lot of flexibility.
Most of the resellers provide a package deal to the customers and also provide discount that reach up to 50% to the resellers, this discount is given on the price of the initial reseller hosting account. Reseller hosting is a perfect answer for all the people who wish to have reliable and consistent performance in their business.
