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How Does Reseller Web Hosting Operate?

The Internet has become an essential staple in everybody's daily life. wants to own their own personal website, whether for amusement, for socialization or commercial ends. The web hosting industry niche is thriving. Why get a piece of the pie yourself?

What can you ?

The majority of the providers provide Linux-driven services. Linux is a multi-user Operating System, which is very apposite for both and servers. The reseller web hosting that companies offer is the cPanel one, because the cPanel CP tool levels of access - root (retained for the web hosting provider itself), reseller (that is where you enter) and user (for your clients). Although some do permit overselling, in instances you are bound by the content storage space and monthly traffic quota limitations of your reseller web hosting plan. It is like a sphere, which you stuff with tinier spheres - when you have stuffed it all up, you cannot add more.

Sell VPS hosting packages or dedicated plans

The bigger part of the hosting providers providing VPS hosting packages and dedicated hosting do not actually disapprove if you utilize the virtual private web hosting server or the dedicated hosting server to sell website hosting accounts. If you decide to resell website hosting accounts availing of a dedicated web hosting server, you will have total control over the entire physical machine, the possibility to make any configuration changes you see fit and the possibility to monitor all the web hosting account owners hosted on it. The VPS servers offer similar specifications, but in the majority of the cases you cannot implement any kernel modifications or adjustments, which necessitate kernel module reconfiguration. The best web hosting Control Panel software that allows you to resell hosting accounts utilizing your dedicated web hosting server or virtual hosting server is, again, cPanel, although you can also utilize DirectAdmin, depending on which CP interface corresponds to your expectations better.

What do you need to be a web hosting reseller?

In order to become a reseller and begin your hosting business, you demand a website, an invoicing platform, a merchant account with a payment processor like PayPal, WorldPay, MoneyBookers, 2CheckOut, etc., and a Secure Sockets Layer certificate to make certain that your customers' info is protected when they pay using your website when buying a web hosting service. Popular invoicing platforms that you can use are WHMCS, AWBS and ClientExec. The guys at ResellersPanel, however, give you a cost-free reseller web hosting account with all that included in it - a ready-to-use website, an invoicing software platform and even technical support for your clients. Their reseller web hosting program is unique on the market, since they bill and support your clients on your behalf, and allow you to resell our web hosting services without the need to purchase anything beforehand yourself. Additionally, they permit you to sell all their web hosting services - shared website hosting plans, virtual servers, semi-dedicated and dedicated web hosting services. You can offer all of these to your customers using a ready-for-use website template. The profit you make is in fact the difference between their wholesale price and the price you assign yourself, so all you have to do is be a decent marketing strategist and earn clients. If that is a little too innovative for you, they still furnish shared cPanel reseller web hosting packages, as most reseller web hosting providers do, and you can always order a virtual private web hosting server or a dedicated hosting server and slice it into hosting accounts, which you can offer yourself. The presents coming with their cPanel reseller web hosting packages will make your reseller life easier too - they supply you with ClientExec in order to bill and support your customers, a bouquet of design skins and even a charge-free eNom reseller account. We have datacenters in 4 countries - Australia, the USA and the United Kingdom. It is a huge chance for you to expand your hosting business on three continents. What more could you ask for?