Reseller Web Hosting: a Detailed Look
After selecting an appropriate web host, you need to further choose a plan which would suit you the most. Basically, it all depends on what your finances permit you to do, besides your requirement. This is important since the needs of a smaller website owner will be less than what would be needed by a big corporation. The hosting plans offered by the companies are meant for everyone, right from the small owners, to relatively bigger ones, to the huge website owners. The hosting plans also allow you to gain extension into a whole network of sites.
So it is important that you decide between a starter plan that hosts a large website and a it also provides a over more than one domain. The other choice is of a server, these servers are expensive and they are mainly used for business purposes as they are able to host a network of various sites.
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.
Here too the answer you are looking for is reseller hosting. Reseller hosting could turn into a job itself as many people make decent money out of this business. For example, let’s say you purchase a reseller account that provides for a hundred domains/accounts for $60. Now, you can sell each account bought under your account for $10. That amounts to a neat sum of $1000 per month from a $60 initial venture! On the flip side you have to set up the accounts, answer a few queries here and there, but you need not worry about the problems of running a web-server as the hosting company shall take care of it. You may spend a little money to promote your web-hosting business but that is negligible compared to the profit you shall be making!
So, Let us look at the actual meaning of a reseller hosting.
It is a form of web hosting, where you (the owner) have the capacity to use your prearranged hard drive space and bandwidth to host websites on behalf of third parties. As a reseller you buy the host’s facilities and then you sell them to other customers making a neat profit of your own. A certain part of the hard drive and bandwidth is billed to the reseller account. So the reseller may lease a dedicated server from a hosting company or resell collective hosting services. If you just resell those services, then you need not rent a server from the company.
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.
Let us have a look at the bright side of this system.
Firstly, you do not have to possess a thorough understanding of the technical know-how of web hosting. The dedicated server owner (the host) is responsible for the server and he configures, secures and updates it according to your need and as required, while the data center operator is accountable for maintaining the network infrastructure and the hardware required. So as a reseller you have to answer questions from the customer base and address their problems, but all hardware, software and connectivity problems are forwarded to the server provider. Through certain ‘Control Panels’ resellers can easily supervise customer accounts via a web interface. There is a software called ModernBill that helps out resellers immensely by automatic account creation and billing. Here are listed some Control Panels that you will come across:
Webmin- Unix
Plesk- Windows/Unix
Helm- Windows
Plesk- Windows/Unix
Ensim Pro- Windows/Unix
Webmin- Unix
Out of the ones that are mentioned above, the best is cPanel reseller hosting. There are numerous advantages of reseller hosting and here we shall mention a few of them, first of the thing to be noted is that there a lot of both short term as well as long term benefits for the reseller. You can allow your own instincts and make your own decisions without having to report to the host or without having to take his approval. There are some server owners who also allow you to have a separate IP address for the name severs. You have the privilege of hosting as many websites as you want within the required disk space and bandwidth. Another striking feature of reseller account is that you can expand your account as you desire because there is a lot of flexibility.
Most resellers choose to offer their customers a package that includes hosting and most web hosting providers give a discount up to 50% to the resellers on the price of the initial reseller hosting account. For all those who value performance and demand reliability to boost their business prospects or commerce (and already have a website) - reseller web hosting is the perfect solution for them!
