How Does Web Hosting Reseller Work?

There are many ways of generating cash on the Internet and one of them is to sell the hosting services supplied by a specific hosting accounts provider. This presents vast options for everybody who wants to generate supplementary money. There are several kinds of web hosting reseller solutions, depending on the reseller's degree of commitment and, of course, on the web hosting supplier that provides the service. Before going into that, let's first explore

What is a web hosting reseller solution?

A web hosting reseller service is a type of hosting account, which permits the reseller to create separate sub-accounts that can be resold to different clients. This is mainly accomplished by bestowing the user with access to a main web hosting reseller account, through which he can set up different hosting accounts availing of the hosting server hard drive storage space included in the web hosting reseller package, for which he pays a certain tax. This is a lot like the shared hosting service and exactly like it, with the majority of web hosting reseller programs, multiple web hosting reseller accounts share the same hosting server and do not have root-level access to the server configuration files. Such reseller programs are normally not that expensive. Still, they do prevent the resellers from reselling other sorts of web hosting services except shared packages.

Different types of web hosting reseller services

Beside the already mentioned mode of web hosting reseller plans, there are also several other setups that work just as good. However, they vary with respect to the levels of participation and the amount of resources that each one of them involves. As mentioned above, the most common way of reselling hosting services offers you limited options and you risk losing your money if things don't work out. This is the reason why, larger web hosting service providers such as ResellersPanel.com offer alternative ways of reselling hosting accounts without the need to purchase anything upfront, or to even be responsible for the provision of customer and invoicing support. With their web hosting reseller program, the hosting reseller registers for free and selects his own retail prices for the web hosting plans, which are being sold directly from his online storefront. As invoicing transactions are handled by ResellersPanel.com's personnel, the customer does not have to purchase the hosting service in advance. He's just going to receive the difference between the retail and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The web hosting reseller also has the chance to distribute web hosting solutions such as VPS, semi-dedicated servers and dedicated server. More or less, his duty comes down to popularizing the service and offering support to the end clients and with hosts that do not demand preliminary fees and are responsible for the invoicing and technical support provision, the sole task left for the web hosting reseller will be to popularize his private brand's web store. Another possibility will be to set up separate accounts on a virtual hosting server, or on a dedicated server. With most web hosting companies, you may receive those two hosting services with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some other web hosting Control Panel, already installed on them. That will enable you to set up different shared hosting plans and have absolute control over both the customers and the web hosting server itself. What is more, on a dedicated hosting server, you may set up separate VPS hosting server accounts and resell them to your clients. One single dedicated server may stash 1000's of VPS accounts, based on the server's specs. This will enable you to deliver a wider assortment of web hosting solutions to your customers, which will provide you with more options when popularizing your online storefront. By all means, utilizing a virtual server or a dedicated hosting server for web hosting reseller objectives is much more expensive than using an average web hosting reseller account. That's why, this option should be considered only if the reseller has sufficient knowledge and practice needed to manage a web hosting server, otherwise it's recommendable to either opt for a regular web hosting reseller program, or for the aforementioned Free Reseller Program provided by ResellersPanel.com, which requires less involvement from the web hosting reseller.