What is a hosting reseller service?
A web hosting reseller service is a type of web hosting account, which allows the reseller to create separate subaccounts that can be sold to various customers. This is chiefly carried out by supplying the reseller with access to a main reseller account, through which he can create different web hosting accounts availing of the hosting server disk storage space offered by the web hosting reseller plan, for which he pays a certain price. This is much like the shared web hosting service and exactly like it, with the majority of reseller web hosting programs, lots of hosting reseller accounts share the same hosting server and are not bestowed with complete server root access to the server configuration files. Such reseller programs are usually not that high-priced. However, they do hamper the resellers from offering other forms of hosting solutions aside from shared hosting packages.
Various forms of hosting reseller services
Aside from the already mentioned manner of reseller web hosting packages, there are also several other ways that work just as good. Still, they differ in terms of the levels of participation and the amount of funds that each one of them involves. As already mentioned, the most common method of selling web hosting services gives you restricted possibilities and you risk losing your money if things go wrong. That's why, larger hosting corporations such as ResellersPanel offer alternative ways of selling hosting plans without the need to purchase anything in advance, or to even become involved in the provision of customer and invoicing support. With their hosting reseller program, the reseller registers for free and sets his very own retail prices for the web hosting solutions, which are being sold straight from his web store. Because billing transactions are tackled by Resellers Panel's personnel, the customer does not need to buy the service upfront. He's merely going to receive the difference between the retail and the wholesale price as a commission. The web hosting reseller also has the option to deliver web hosting services like VPS web hosting server accounts, semi-dedicated web server plans and dedicated web server hosting plans. More or less, his duty comes down to promoting the hosting service and providing support to the end users and with web hosting suppliers that do not require upfront taxes and handle the invoicing and customer support provision, the only task left for the hosting reseller will be to promote his personal brand's online store. Another alternative will be to set up different accounts on a virtual private hosting server, or on a dedicated web hosting server. With the majority of web hosts, you may get those two hosting hosting solutions 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 accounts and exert absolute authority over both the clients and the server itself. Also, on a dedicated hosting server, you may create various VPS hosting accounts and offer them to your customers. One dedicated hosting web server may shelter 1000's of VPS web server hosting accounts, depending on the server's architecture. This will permit you to sell a more extensive assortment of web hosting services to your clients, which will provide you with more opportunities when advertising your online storefront. Sure enough, using a virtual server or a dedicated server for reseller hosting goals is much more expensive than utilizing a normal reseller hosting account. That is the reason why, this alternative should be considered only in case the reseller has sufficient understanding and experience demanded to handle a hosting server, otherwise it's recommended to either sign up for a standard web hosting reseller program, or for the abovementioned Free Reseller Program courtesy of ResellersPanel, which requires less dedication from the reseller.