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How to Get Started With Reseller Web Hosting?

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If you want to learn about reseller hosting you can check this article. In this post we will focus on how you can use reseller hosting.

You can use reseller hosting for various purposes:

  1. Host multiple websites: If you own multiple websites, instead of hosting all of your websites in one account, you can host on multiple accounts. The primary benefit of hosting on multiple accounts is security. Even if your one website gets hacked you will have other functional websites.
  2. Sell hosting service: With reseller hosting, you get multiple hosting accounts, usually 20-25 accounts, you can sell unused accounts and make money.
  3. Start hosting business: Reseller hosting offers you to create your own hosting business without having to set up your own servers. You can kick start your hosting business with a little investment.
How to get Started With Reseller Hosting

The first step is to look for a parent web hosting company that offers reseller plans to individuals. There are lots of web hosting companies that offer reseller hosting plans. You can choose small, medium or big according to your budget or need. We will get to that later.

After you have bought a reseller hosting plan, your hosting company will be sent a detailed email of all the information you need such as username, password, and also a link to your reseller control panel or web host manager (WHM). You can manage your reseller hosting services through your web host manager control panel. The administrative control panel will let you control web hosting accounts and create hosting packages that you would offer to your clients or use for your own service. If you want to resell hosting accounts, you can create a business website for your services with tailor made packages and start acquiring new clients.

With your web hosting manager, you have access to a web-based tools that you can use to create and manage the accounts of your clients. You can manage and monitor their websites and provide client support. You don't need any technical know how because your parent company will help you from behind. If you want to get into web hosting business, Reseller Hosting is quite good. If you are a database programmer, web copywriter, graphic designer, internet marketing consultants, and website designer, web developer, you can offer web hosting to your clients as a reseller. Since you purchase web space in bulk, you pay little compared to what you can charge your clients. Even if you are not able to sell a lot of hosting accounts, you might be able to sell enough accounts to bear the hosting cost, thus being able to pay for hosting your websites through reseller hosting for free.

Where to Get Reseller Hosting?

If you think reseller hosting is good for you and want to start your reseller hosting business, you can look into reseller hosting packages offered by various web hosting companies. Most of the big companies like GoDaddy, Namecheap, Hostgator, SiteGround, BlueHost, etc. offer reseller hosting. All of these hosting providers offer different reseller hosting packages. How much you pay depends on the parent hosting company and the size of your reseller plan.

Namecheap

Namecheap has three different reseller hosting packages. Nebula costs $19.88 per month. This reseller hosting package from namecheap offers 25 cPanel accounts and 30 GB SSD. Whereas Galaxy Expert offers 100 cpanel, 90 GB SSD and cost $39.88 per month. The third reseller package costs $58.88 with 200 cpanel and 150 GB SSD.

HostGator

Hostgator has three different reseller hosting packages that cost between $134.99 and $82.99, and offers 100, 200, and 450 GB SSD, With all plans, you get unmetered bandwidth. The basic reseller plan gets you 2 vCPU cores, where as medium plan gets you 4 vCPU and the biggets plan gets you 8 vCPU. The best thing about HostGator is that your clients also get free SSL.

These are just a few examples where you can get reseller hosting, you can do your own research and find hosting companies offering reseller plan according to your needs and budget.