How does reseller hosting function and what are the various reseller web hosting varieties?
The manner in which reseller hosting operates depends on the strategy of the web hosting provider, which offers the service. The most widely used kind of reseller account is the cPanel/WHM one. With it, you distribute the storage space, which your reseller account providers, between your customers using the Web Host Manager CP. With it, you may set up separate web hosting plans and cPanel hosting accounts for your customers. With such a scheme, the reseller needs to cope with the billing and technical support provision. Yet, this too depends on the approach of the hosting corporation. Another sort of web hosting reseller program is the Free Reseller Program courtesy of Resellers Panel. With it, you fix your very own personal retail prices for the provided web hosting plans, and for each deal that you generate, the people from ResellersPanel will provide you with a commission, which is in fact the difference between the retail and the wholesale prices. With this reseller hosting program, Resellers Panel offers technical support to the end users, which may be quite handy if you do not wish to be fully mixed up in the reseller hosting business. Surely, there might be various variants, but in the majority of instances, you pay a monthly fee for a given web server hard drive storage space, which you have to deal out among your clients.
What types of web hosting services can be sold via a reseller hosting account?
The regular reseller hosting service only allows the users to offer shared hosting accounts. That's only because the majority of reseller hosting accounts are essentially shared web hosting accounts, which include more functionalities. Just like with a shared server, the majority of hosting distributors offering a cPanel/WHM reseller solution accommodate lots of reseller web hosting user accounts using the same hosting server. Therefore, the resellers are not provided with root access to the web server config files, which suggests that the sole hosting service that they may offer are shared web hosting plans. This, however, relates solely to the cPanel/WHM-based reseller solutions and once again, it is determined by the strategy that the web hosting firm has adopted towards these solutions. If the reseller has a bigger allowance, he can provide diverse solutions such as VPS hosting server accounts or dedicated web server hosting plans under his own private brand and make more people interested in the hosting solutions that he has to offer. Surely, it will mean that the reseller will have to cope with the technical support provision, since no hosting company will wish to provide customer support to the end users of such a service. Another way to provide more than just plain shared plans is to register with the already mentioned Free Reseller Program, which Resellers Panel has developed. With it, the users are able to offer private virtual web server hosting accounts, semi-dedicated server packages and dedicated hosting accounts, along with shared web hosting plans, without having to buy any of the hosting services upfront. That's the simplest and most riskless way to sell web hosting solutions on the web, since it involves no preliminary installments and you don't have to be technically accomplished, because you won't be caught up in providing customer and billing support. Based on the hosting distributor's tactic, there might be different supplementary solutions, which the hosting reseller may provide, such as domain name registrations, SSL certificates, domain identity protection services, and so on. This is the reason why, prior to signing up for anything, one should first ascertain what exactly the web hosting reseller account of the given hosting plans provider has to offer.
"Which web hosting supplier should I settle on?"
There is quite an easy response to that enquiry. When picking a web site hosting package, it's invariably better to settle on an established web hosting supplier, which has been in business for several years, and which offers hosting packages around the Globe. Such hosting companies can be easily spotted by the way in which they are distributing their web site hosting plans. An established web hosting provider will not only provide well-balanced web hosting and reseller hosting packages, but it will also offer functionalities that are only theirs and that set them apart from all the other hosting companies. For example, Resellers Panel has not merely developed a unique reseller program where you don't need to pay so as to resell their web hosting services, but Resellers Panel has also constructed its own web site hosting CP. The quality of the team that works for a particular hosting supplier is very important and exerts an enormous impact on the quality of the web hosting solutions that are being distributed, whereas custom-built functionalities are an evidence that the service provider has proficient, experienced developers. The quality of the hosting service is important when you're signing up for a reseller account. It's much easier to move one site than to transfer several client accounts, if you ever find it mandatory to replace the reseller web hosting company. For this reason, one should choose mindfully prior to placing their trust in a given hosting services provider.
