What Precisely is Reseller Hosting?
There are many means of making money on the World Wide Web and one of them is to sell the web hosting services supplied by some hosting provider. This provides infinite opportunities for everyone who would like to gain supplementary money. There are several varieties of reseller hosting services, depending on the hosting reseller's level of involvement and, of course, on the web hosting corporation that offers the service. Prior to looking into that, let us first analyze
What is a reseller hosting service?
A reseller hosting service is a sort of web hosting user account, which permits the reseller to set up different sub-accounts that can be offered to different customers. This is chiefly accomplished by providing the user with access to a main reseller hosting account, via which he can set up separate web hosting accounts with the web 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 hosting solution and just like it, with the majority of reseller hosting programs, multiple reseller hosting accounts share one web hosting server and are not given root-level access to the server configuration files. Such web hosting reseller programs are typically not that costly. However, they do hamper the web hosting resellers from furnishing other sorts of web hosting solutions beside shared packages.
Different forms of reseller hosting solutions
Apart from the abovementioned method of reseller hosting packages, there are also a few other schemes that work just as good. Yet, they differ in terms of the levels of involvement and the amount of money that each of them presupposes. As mentioned, the most common way of reselling hosting solutions offers you limited opportunities and you risk forfeiting your money if things don't work out. That's why, larger web hosting suppliers such as ResellersPanel.com offer alternative modes of selling hosting packages without having to pay for anything upfront, or to even deal with the provision of customer and invoicing support. With their reseller web hosting program, the hosting reseller signs up free of charge and fixes his own retail prices for the hosting packages, which are being offered straight from his web store. Because billing transactions are handled by ResellersPanel.com's team, the user does not have to buy the hosting service beforehand. He's only going to receive the difference between the retail price and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The web hosting reseller also has the chance to deliver web hosting services like VPS web hosting, semi-dedicated web hosting and dedicated web hosting. More or less, his role involves popularizing the hosting service and offering support to the end customers and with web hosts that do not require upfront charges and cope with the billing and customer support provision, the sole responsibility left for the hosting reseller will be to promote his private brand's web storefront. Another alternative will be to create separate accounts on a virtual private web hosting server, or on a dedicated web server. With the majority of web hosting companies, you may get those 2 hosting services with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some different web hosting Control Panel, already installed on them. That will permit you to set up various shared web hosting packages and exert complete authority over both the users and the hosting server itself. Additionally, on a dedicated hosting server, you may set up various virtual web server hosting accounts and sell them to your clients. One dedicated hosting web server may keep thousands of VPS web hosting server accounts, based on the web server's architecture. This will enable you to provide a greater assortment of hosting solutions to your customers, which will furnish you with more opportunities when promoting your web store. Certainly, using a private virtual hosting server or a dedicated hosting web server for reseller hosting objectives is much more costly than using a standard reseller hosting user account. For this reason, this opportunity should be contemplated only on condition that the web hosting reseller has sufficient ability and training demanded to manage a hosting server, otherwise it's recommendable to either sign up for an ordinary reseller hosting program, or for the already mentioned Free Reseller Program courtesy of ResellersPanel.com, which requires less dedication from the reseller.