How Does Reseller Web Hosting Work?
There are a lot of ways of gaining money on the web and one of them is to sell the website hosting solutions offered by a certain web hosting plans provider. This provides immense opportunities for everybody who desires to gain extra revenue. There are different sorts of reseller web hosting solutions, depending on the reseller's degree of participation and, of course, on the hosting distributor that provides the web hosting service. Prior to going into that, let's first discuss
What is a reseller web hosting service?
A reseller web hosting solution is a kind of hosting user account, which enables the reseller to set up different subaccounts that can be sold to various customers. This is mostly carried out by supplying the user with access to a master reseller web hosting account, through which he can set up various hosting accounts utilizing the web server hard disk storage space offered by the reseller web hosting package, for which he pays a certain price. This is much like the shared web hosting solution and exactly like it, with most reseller web hosting programs, lots of reseller web hosting accounts share the same server and are not bestowed with full server root access to the server configuration files. Such reseller web hosting programs are typically not that expensive. Still, they do hinder the web hosting resellers from distributing other sorts of web hosting solutions aside from shared packages.
Various sorts of reseller web hosting solutions
Beside the already mentioned way of reseller web hosting plans, there are also a few other ways that work just as fine. However, they differ with respect to the degrees of commitment and the amount of resources that each of them presupposes. As stated above, the most popular way of selling hosting solutions gives you limited possibilities and you risk losing your money if things go wrong. For that reason, larger hosting service providers such as ResellersPanel.com offer alternative methods of selling hosting plans without having to buy anything in advance, or to even be responsible for the provision of client and invoicing support. With their hosting reseller program, the hosting reseller registers free of charge and designates his own retail prices for the web hosting solutions, which are being offered directly from his online store. Since invoicing transactions are tackled by ResellersPanel.com's team, the reseller does not have to buy the hosting service upfront. He's just going to receive the difference between the retail and the wholesale price as a commission. The web hosting reseller also has the possibility to provide web hosting services like VPS web hosting, semi-dedicated web hosting and dedicated web hosting. More or less, his duty involves popularizing the web hosting service and providing support to the end clients and with web hosting service providers that do not request preliminary deposits and tackle the billing and client support provision, the only responsibility left for the hosting reseller will be to advertise his private brand's online store. Another alternative will be to create separate accounts on a private virtual web server, or on a dedicated hosting server. With the majority of web hosting distributors, you may get those 2 web hosting services with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some different hosting Control Panel, already installed on them. That will permit you to set up various shared web hosting plans and exercise absolute control over both the users and the server itself. Besides, on a dedicated web hosting server, you may set up different VPS server accounts and resell them to your customers. One dedicated hosting web server may accommodate 1000's of virtual private web server hosting accounts, depending on the server's specifications. This will allow you to offer a larger variety of hosting services to your clients, which will furnish you with more options when promoting your web store. Sure enough, utilizing a private virtual hosting server or a dedicated hosting server for reseller web hosting goals is much more costly than utilizing a normal reseller web hosting user account. That's why, this opportunity should be examined only on condition that the hosting reseller has sufficient understanding and practice demanded to administer a server, otherwise it's recommended to either sign up for an ordinary reseller web hosting program, or for the abovementioned Free Reseller Program offered by ResellersPanel.com, which requests less involvement from the web hosting reseller.