What is reseller hosting?

[Host.co.in]

IMO, managing you privacy as a reseller as well as taking care of the support services provided by the original hosting provider is the key to success as a Reseller web hosting provider. Once you became proficient with the technical knowledge then simply you can go for the colocation services provided by your nearest data center and have your own dedicated server and start to provide support at your own. This will also save a lot of infrastructure cost and you would be an independent web hosting provider without building a costly data center.

[amarsingh4seo]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing this good post on reseller hosting.

[hamdard]

reseller hosting means you sell another company services under your own brand, this way you get profit.

[pipeten]

I think you'll find most hosting companies started off with a reseller account.

[Saad Host]

A lot of web hosting firms offer reseller hosting service. With reseller hosting, the account owner of reseller hosting service rents out portion of the disk space and bandwidth he receives to other end users. Therefore, the account owner is like a hosting service provider to those end users.

[branco]

The web hosting reseller allows you to start your own hosting company websites. it provide you all the tools and resources necessary to provide the same quality hosting to your customers that we provide. When you sell accommodation, this means that you are the hosting company you own and you control all the functions you offer and the pack and the price you charge your customers.

[shoaib1987]

Good job . It's a nice article. It cleared some of the questions which were in my mind about reseller hosting..

[Dirk1027]

A reseller is a middle-man who sells web space on somebody else's server. Reselling schemes vary widely. They fall into the following categories:

(a) The reseller acts as an agent for the web hosting company. The service is advertised by the reseller as being with the actual web hosting company. People buy direct from the web hosting company but the reseller gets a cut if customers mention the reseller's name.

(b) The reseller acts as a marketer for the web hosting company. The service is advertised by the reseller as being with the actual web hosting company. People buy the service from the reseller but all further contact they have is direct wih the web hosting company.

(c) The reseller appears to be a web hosting company in his own right, handling sales and support but 'rebadges' somebody else's service. A customer buys web space from the reseller who buys web space (at a lower price) from the actual web hosting company. Customers contact the reseller for support.

A variant on this scheme is that customers are invoiced by the web hosting company in the reseller's name and the reseller gets a cut. Support will usually be via the reseller in order to keep up the pretence that the reseller is a web hosting company in his own right.

(d) The reseller purchases a large chunk of web space and bandwidth from the web hosting company and can then carve that into individual chunks of space/bandwidth for sale to customers. Customers contact the reseller for support.

[andycoper]

hi ajay ,

thanks for shearing information about reseller hosting .......

[JonC]

Reseller hosting is a form of web hosting wherein the account owner has the ability to use his/her allotted hard drive space and bandwidth to host websites on behalf of third parties. The reseller purchases the host's services wholesale and then sells them to customers, possibly for a profit. A certain portion of hard drive and bandwidth is allocated to the reseller account. The reseller may rent a dedicated server from a hosting company, or resell shared hosting services. In the latter case, the reseller is simply given the permission to sell a certain amount of disk space and bandwidth to his own customers without renting a server from a web hosting company he signed for a reseller account with.

Some clients think that one of the the easiest ways to begin your web hosting business is to make a decision of buying a reseller plan. Reseller package will suit you in the best way if you already have some customers who are ready to host their sites with your company. So, as soon as you purchase a big slice of server space and bandwidth, you can divide it up and sell on to customers according to their needs. Once you've found a suitable reseller package, decide for you if this plan benefits your potential customers.To do this, you will have to step into customers’ shoes.

For example, if you're going to provide hosting for small businesses, think what you'd want if you had a small business company and needed to host it somewhere: high uptime, lots of features. Moreover, if you want your customers to buy your best hosting plans, you need to compare the prices you set for your hosting packages with the market rates.

Once you've done all that, you'll need to create your own website and advertise it in places where your potential customers can appear.
Here are some examples of the advises given by the users of Webhostingtalk:

Three things you should check with the reseller plan:
Search domain whois to see how old the domain is.
Send pre-sales question to check response time.
Make sure reseller plans are reasonable in terms of price and quota comparing with other providers.”
“No point going with a reseller that is providing you with something that is too good to be true”

A lot of hosts that enable overselling at reseller level limit the number of domains which a reseller can host under one account.So this is better to avoid companies which offer overselling and want to attract attention by unlimited domains in their hosting packages. If every reseller starts overselling without control, it can perform the server load and even downtime. As the reseller accounts are growing day by day, they will try to upgrade their plans in future and that is when things can get really tricky for the reseller hosting provider.

Having a reseller account, you get disk space and bandwidth at a particular price and resell these resources at a higher price. The customers can easily find out your real provider’s name and they can directly go to this company, which will not be a good thing for you. Various methods exist for a reseller host to protect its resellers' anonymity. Private nameservers for example provide the highest level of anonymity and also project an image of professionalism.
The main advantage of a reseller package is that reseller plans are managed by the web host who provides the service to you and you do not have to worry about performing any server upgrades, server administration or security.

But sometimes it can become a disadvantage as you don’t fully control the server. A web hosting who does not keep security up-to-date, or oversells space on the server means that your reseller accounts are affected.Moreover, in case of the server failures, your clients’ accounts are badly influenced by the downtime and you can’t do anything about it as you don’t have control over your server. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but before making an order for a reseller plan, make sure your hosting provider is reliable.