What is a hosting reseller solution?
A reseller web hosting solution is a kind of web hosting account, which enables the reseller to create various sub-accounts that can be resold to various clients. This is mostly carried out by providing the user with access to a master reseller hosting account, through which he can set up different web hosting accounts utilizing the web server hard disk storage space offered by the hosting reseller package, for which he pays a given price. This is much similar to the shared hosting service and just like it, with the majority of reseller programs, a lot of reseller accounts share one single web server and do not obtain full root-level access to the server configuration files. Such web hosting reseller programs are normally not that high-priced. Still, they do bar the hosting resellers from providing other kinds of web hosting services except shared plans.
Various types of web hosting reseller solutions
Apart from the abovementioned manner of reseller web hosting accounts, there are also a few other schemes that work just as good. Still, they differ in terms of the degrees of involvement and the amount of cash that each of them requires. As mentioned, the most popular way of selling web hosting services gives you limited possibilities and you risk forfeiting your investment if things go wrong. Because of this reason, larger hosting corporations such as Resellers Panel provide alternative modes of selling hosting plans without the need to purchase anything upfront, or to even be involved in the provision of client and billing support. With their program, the web hosting reseller signs up for free and defines his own retail prices for the hosting plans, which are being offered straight from his online store. As invoicing transactions are taken care of by Resellers Panel's personnel, the user does not have to buy the web hosting service upfront. He's merely going to get the difference between the retail and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The hosting reseller also has the opportunity to resell hosing solutions like Virtual Private Server hosting plans, semi-dedicated web server packages and dedicated servers. More or less, his job comes down to advertising the web hosting service and providing support to the end customers and with hosting corporations that do not require upfront charges and cope with the invoicing and client support provision, the sole task left for the reseller will be to promote his private brand's online store. Another option will be to set up different user accounts on a virtual private web server, or on a dedicated web server. With most web hosting suppliers, you may receive those two web hosting services with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or another hosting CP, already installed on them. That will permit you to set up different shared hosting plans and exert total authority over both the users and the web hosting server itself. What is more, on a dedicated web server, you may create various virtual hosting server accounts and resell them to your clients. One dedicated web server may keep 1000's of private virtual web server hosting accounts, depending on the server's capacity. This will enable you to sell a more extensive array of web hosting services to your clients, which will present you with more options when advertising your online store. Surely, using a private virtual web hosting server or a dedicated web hosting server for web hosting reseller purposes is much more expensive than utilizing an ordinary hosting reseller user account. Hence, this alternative should be contemplated only if the web hosting reseller has sufficient understanding and training necessary to administer a hosting server, otherwise it's recommendable to either opt for an average reseller program, or for the abovementioned Free Reseller Program provided by ResellersPanel.com, which requires less dedication from the web hosting reseller.