The Ins and Outs of Reseller Web Hosting

Reseller web hosting is a form of internet hosting in which you can buy disk space and bandwidth from a hosting service and resell it to other people. Or a reseller’s account can be used by a web publisher with multiple websites. If you are wondering whether or not a reseller web hosting account is the right thing for you then read this article to learn the facts.

 

Reseller Web Hosting – how it works

There are basically two ways for a reseller web hosting account to work:

(1) Dedicated Server: You can lease or rent a dedicated server and either configure it or have it configured to meet your requirements and then allocate portions of it to individuals.

This type of reselling takes a good bit of technical knowledge and expertise since you will be partially responsible for the hardware or software.

(2) Shared Hosting: With this type, you buy an allocated amount of storage space and bandwidth on a shared host account and then divide it up and resell to others. The support of the web server remains the responsibility of the hosting provider, but the third party clients remain your responsibility.

While resellers’ accounts can be created by anyone, the bulk of all resellers are web designers/developers, small business consultants, or marketers who want offer their clients a complete package of services plus web host. Most these resellers use shared hosting.

Other resellers are usually internet marketers or web publishers who own several websites or blogs and wish to save money by hosting all their sites under once account. Depending on the size or number of their sites, these resellers can use either a shared or dedicated site.

The remaining resellers are in the web hosting industry and lease one or more dedicated servers for their business to market and resell to individuals or various specialty markets.

Reseller Web Hosting – how to make or save money

Say you as a web developer; you buy 1700MB of disk storage space and 50 GB of bandwidth from a hosting vendor for $55 a month. You can now offer 10 of your web design clients a 150MB space + 5GB of bandwidth web account for $15 a month as part of their website package. You would profit $95 a month in revenue. Over time as you client list grows this passive income can become substantial.

Or say you are a web publisher with 12 blogs and or websites all together and each costs $10 a month or $120. You could get a resellers account and host all of them on the 1700MB for $55. You would save $65 a month. This may not seem like a lot but some web publishing companies own hundreds of websites.

You can now use the information in this article to investigate reseller web hosting services in greater detail while making your decision.