What is Reseller Hosting?
August 23rd, 2008 by Adam
The next step that you need to take after choosing a web-host for your site is to zero down upon a proper hosting plan. Depending on your needs, reseller web hosting may be the best option for you, even if you aren’t a web hosting reseller. It all depends on your monetary ability to provide for the plan and hence if you run a relatively smaller website your preference will be unlike what you’ll choose for a profitable site. The options presented vary between these: hosting for one little website, for a relatively larger one, for a mega-site, or a hosting plan that you can employ to extend into a network of websites.
The requirement for you is to identify your needs and choose whether you want a basic starter plan meant for the beginners, or one which hosts many websites and gives you more than one domain, or you can even opt for a dedicated server, which is mainly used for fully business purposes, and is quite expensive as well.
For all the people who are entering in to the internet based business, it is a fact that they will be needing larger web sites as and when their demand increases. The case is the same even in the case of web designers, on the successful completion of a web design the demand for the web designs increases. In order to save yourself from burning a hole in your pocket while setting up any of the business project it is advisable that you have an affordable, and also a flexible plan chalked out. The best answer to and the best solution to all these concerns is reseller hosting.
Reseller hosting is quite a well paying job in its own and a lot of people are actually making quite lot of money from it. Let us take an example, in case you buy reseller account that allows you a hundred domains for every account for say a sum of $55. Now if you are able to sell each of the account that you have bought under your account for a sum of 410 then you can get an amount of $1000 per month, and you can earn all this amount only for an investment of $55.
In fact, you can take on reseller hosting as a job as well, since many people earn a lot of money of this business. To cite an instance, let’s assume that you spend $50 for purchasing a reseller hosting account which provides you with hundreds of domains and accounts. Then, you can sell each of these domains for about $10. So that would easily fetch you $1,000 for an investment of just $50. The only requirement would be that you would have to set up the accounts of the clients, solve the problems that they encounter, and give them proper technical support. The web hosting company normally takes care of these issues so it certainly won’t be a major issue for you. You may have to spend some money for advertising your business but given the profits you can earn from it, the money spent is worth it!
So what actually do we mean by reseller hosting?
Reseller hosting is a type of web hosting, here you have the capacity to be able to host websites on behalf of third parties by using the hard disk space and band with. As a reseller the main aim is to buy the facilities from the host and then sell it to third parties such that you are able to pocket a decent amount of profit for your own. In this case a fraction of the amount of the hard drive and bandwidth is charged to the account of the reseller. So here it is possible for a reseller to be able to lese a dedicated server from either a hosting company or from a resell collective hosting services.
Some of the web designers and developers, as well as system integrators, act as resellers. Even for the new business-minded people, reseller of web hosting services is a good and a cheap way to start with a new business. It is a very good option to consider for internet consultants, webmasters and anyone who wishes to start up with a good and a high-profit business online. There are many web hosting plans which enable the resellers to provide their own services and decide upon their own fee which they would charge from the customers.
There are many advantages associated with such a system, some of which are mentioned below.
First of all, you need not have a sound and technical knowledge of how web hosting works. The owner of a dedicated server will take care of the server and its configuration, since that’s his responsibility. He prima facie also take the responsibility of security and updates made to it as per your requirement, while the main responsibility of the operator of the data center is to maintain the hardware and the infrastructure requirements. As a reseller, your job would be to provide answers to the problems faced by the customers, but all the problems regarding software, hardware and configuration are forwarded to the provider of the server. The resellers can gain web supervision over the accounts of the customers by using the Control Panels. A soft ware “Modern Bill” provides great help to resellers due to its facility of automatically creating and billing accounts. Some of the listed Control Panels are:
- Helm- Windows
- Ensim Pro- Windows/Unix
- Helm- Windows
- Webmin- Unix
- Plesk- Windows/Unix
- Webmin- Unix
The reseller gets benefits both for the short term, as well as for the long term. You can actually build your business by making your own rules and get away with giving excuses to the service provider. There are some owners of servers who assign your name servers a unique IP address, which gives you the liberty of hosting as many websites as you wish to, within the constraint of the space and bandwidth, though. Flexibility is a very good feature of most of the reseller accounts, which permits you to expand the hosting account whenever you feel the need to do so.
Most of the resellers provide a package deal to the customers and also provide discount that reach up to 50% to the resellers, this discount is given on the price of the initial reseller hosting account. Reseller hosting is a perfect answer for all the people who wish to have reliable and consistent performance in their business.
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