Cheap Reseller Hosting

Usually a web hosting reseller might be a web developer or system Integrator Company or a web design firm who generally offers web hosting as an add-on service. Generally most of the web hosting company offers reseller to create their own services plan and choose their own pricing structure. Reseller hosting does not require extensive knowledge of the technical aspects of web hosting.

Following is the Control Panels List:

* WHM/cPanel (Unix)(Windows version coming soon)

* Plesk (Windows/Unix)

* DirectAdmin (Unix)

* Webmin (Unix)

* Ensim Pro (Windows/Unix)

* Helm (Windows)

* Hosting Controller (Windows) -by Celina Roy

Web Hosting: How to Become a Reseller

So what is hosting reselling, really? The easy answer to that is that the reseller is a ’storefront’ for an actual web hosting company. The hosting company owns the actual servers - the boxes that you can see and touch, that host websites and make them available to internet users. Web hosting companies provide the physical machinery, as well as the technical know-how to update and repair these machines. The reseller purchases hosting services from the hosting company, and resells those services to their own clients. Some guides to choosing a hosting partner and reseller package are covered later, but for now, where should you start?

Step One: Determine who you will sell to

The reason this is important is because hosting providers offer many different types of reseller packages, some that allow the reseller’s clients to have access to many of their own server functions, and some that do not. Chances are if you choose to take on hosting clients besides your normal web design clients, you will want to give them some degree of independence.

Step Two: Choose your partner.

Research your choice of hosting partner carefully, and not based solely on price. Look over the interfaces the hosts offer, based on who you are selling to. Find out how many different domains you are allowed to host in one package, and if that is upgradeable or if you’d need an additional package to host more. Does the host also offer shell (root) access to your server? What features do their hosting products offer? Does your host allow you to brand your server interfaces?

Step Three: Set rules for yourself

How will you allow you clients to pay, and at what intervals? A common practice these days in hosting reselling is ‘overselling’. Overselling means that you offer your clients a specific amount of space per account, but you sell more accounts than you actually have space for.

Step Four: Set rules for your clients

Every web hosting company has a TOS, or Terms of Service agreement. If YOUR hosting provider does not allow porn sites, for example, you cannot allow your clients to operate them either.

Step Five: Market your product.

Now that you have decided what type of hosting packages to offer your clients and have set your pricing and Terms of Service, you can begin to market yourself as a Hosting Provider. Contact your current web design clients and offer them your new hosting services (if you haven’t already). New hosting clients will move their own sites, but existing ones will appreciate the extra effort you make to change them over. Add your hosting products to your own website, including a copy of your new hosting TOS. Domain registration is another popular option, and many hosting providers also offer domain reseller options. - by Debbi Sullivan

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