What is a reseller web hosting solution?
A web hosting reseller service is a type of web hosting user account, which allows the reseller to create different subaccounts that can be offered to various customers. This is usually carried out by giving the user access to a main reseller account, through which he can create various web hosting accounts with the hosting space provided by the reseller web hosting package, for which he pays a given charge. This is a lot similar to the shared hosting solution and just like it, with most reseller hosting programs, numerous hosting reseller accounts share one web server and do not receive full server root access to the web server configuration files. Such reseller web hosting programs are normally not that expensive. Yet, they do hamper the resellers from reselling other kinds of hosting solutions apart from shared hosting packages.
Various forms of hosting reseller services
Aside from the abovementioned way of reseller hosting plans, there are also several different ways that work just as fine. Yet, they contrast in terms of the degrees of participation and the amount of resources that each of them involves. As mentioned above, the most common way of selling hosting services offers you restricted opportunities and you risk losing your cash if things don't work out. That is why, bigger web hosting corporations such as ResellersPanel provide alternative methods of reselling web hosting accounts without having to pay for anything upfront, or to even cope with the provision of technical and invoicing support. With their hosting reseller program, the web hosting reseller signs up free of cost and fixes his very own retail prices for the hosting plans, which are being sold directly from his web store. As billing transactions are tackled by ResellersPanel.com's personnel, the user does not have to buy the hosting service upfront. He's only going to receive the difference between the retail and the wholesale price in the form of a commission. The web hosting reseller also has the possibility to deliver hosing services such as virtual private web server hosting accounts, semi-dedicated server packages and dedicated web hosting accounts. More or less, his role entails promoting the web hosting service and offering support to the end customers and with providers that do not request upfront charges and tackle the billing and client support provision, the sole task left for the reseller will be to advertise his private brand's web storefront. Another possibility will be to create different user accounts on a VPS hosting server, or on a dedicated hosting server. With most hosting vendors, you may obtain those 2 hosting hosting solutions with a cPanel, DirectAdmin, or some other Control Panel, already installed on them. That will allow you to set up different shared hosting plans and exercise absolute control over both the clients and the server itself. Besides, on a dedicated web server, you may create different private virtual server accounts and resell them to your clients. One single dedicated hosting web server may keep 1000's of VPS web server accounts, depending on the web server's specs. This will allow you to provide a bigger assortment of services to your clients, which will present you with more possibilities when popularizing your online store. Of course, using a VPS web hosting server or a dedicated hosting server for hosting reseller purposes is much more costly than using a normal reseller hosting account. Therefore, this opportunity should be examined only on condition that the web hosting reseller has enough understanding and training needed to manage a web hosting server, otherwise it's recommendable to either register for an ordinary reseller hosting program, or for the abovementioned Free Reseller Program provided by ResellersPanel.com, which demands less commitment from the hosting reseller.