How Does Web Hosting Reseller Work?

There are a lot of means of gaining money online and one of them is to resell the hosting solutions offered by a certain web hosting distributor. This presents infinite options for everybody who desires to make more profit. There are different varieties of web hosting reseller solutions, depending on the hosting reseller's degree of participation and, of course, on the hosting distributor that provides the hosting service. Before looking into that, let's first check out

What is a web hosting reseller service?

A web hosting reseller service is a type of web hosting account, which enables the reseller to set up separate sub-accounts that can be sold to various customers. This is mainly achieved by giving the reseller access to a main web hosting reseller account, through which he can set up separate web hosting accounts using the web server storage space included in the web hosting reseller package, for which he pays a given charge. This is much similar to the shared web hosting service and exactly like it, with most web hosting reseller programs, a lot of reseller web hosting accounts share one single web hosting server and do not obtain root access to the web server config files. Such reseller hosting programs are typically not that expensive. Still, they do hamper the web hosting resellers from distributing other types of hosting solutions apart from shared hosting plans.

Different kinds of web hosting reseller solutions

Aside from the aforementioned manner of web hosting reseller plans, there are also several other setups that work just as good. Still, they contrast in terms of the degrees of involvement and the amount of resources that each one of them requires. As already stated, the most common method of selling hosting solutions offers you limited options and you risk forfeiting your investment if things go wrong. This is the reason why, larger web hosting providers such as ResellersPanel.com offer alternative modes of selling hosting plans without the need to purchase anything upfront, or to even take care of the provision of technical and invoicing support. With their web hosting reseller program, the web hosting reseller subscribes free of cost and designates his own retail prices for the hosting solutions, which are being offered directly from his web store. Since invoicing transactions are handled by ResellersPanel.com's staff, the customer does not need to pay for the hosting service in advance. He's merely going to obtain the difference between the retail and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The hosting reseller also has the option to deliver web hosting solutions such as VPS, semi-dedicated servers and dedicated server. More or less, his job entails popularizing the hosting service and providing support to the end customers and with hosting providers that do not require upfront charges and cope with the billing and client support provision, the only task left for the web hosting reseller will be to popularize his private brand's online storefront. Another alternative will be to set up different user accounts on a VPS hosting server, or on a dedicated web hosting server. With most hosting providers, you may receive those 2 hosting solutions with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or another web hosting CP, pre-installed on them. That will enable you to create different shared hosting packages and have full control over both the users and the hosting server itself. Besides, on a dedicated hosting web server, you may create different private virtual server hosting accounts and sell them to your customers. One dedicated web server may accommodate thousands of VPS hosting accounts, based on the web server's specs. This will enable you to provide a wider assortment of web hosting solutions to your clients, which will provide you with more options when advertising your web storefront. Sure enough, using a private virtual server or a dedicated hosting server for web hosting reseller purposes is much more expensive than having a conventional web hosting reseller account. This is the reason why, this possibility should be considered only on condition that the reseller has sufficient understanding and training required to handle a web hosting server, otherwise it's recommended to either opt for an average web hosting reseller program, or for the aforementioned Free Reseller Program provided by ResellersPanel.com, which requests less participation from the web hosting reseller.