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What is Hosting Reseller?

The Internet is a vital staple in everyone's daily life. Everyone desires to set up their own website, whether for amusement, for socialisation or commercial ends. The web hosting business is thriving. Why don't you take a piece of the pie yourself?

What can you sell?

The majority of the companies deliver Linux-driven hosting solutions. Linux is a multi-user Operating System, which is extremely apposite for both dedicated web hosting and shared hosting servers. The typical hosting reseller scheme that vendors provide is the cPanel one, since the cPanel hosting Control Panel GUI offers 3 access levels - root (intended for the hosting distributor itself), reseller (that is where you enter) and user (for your clients). Even though some do allow overselling, in most situations you are bound by the server hard disk space and monthly bandwidth quota limitations of your hosting reseller package. It is like a sphere, which you stuff with tinier spheres - when you have stuffed it all up, you cannot add more.

Promote VPS hosting services or dedicated hosting server accounts

The bigger part of the web hosting firms providing VPS hosting services and dedicated hosting do not actually mind if you use the private virtual server or the dedicated web server to resell web hosting accounts. If you opt to sell hosting accounts availing of a dedicated web server, you will have complete authority over the whole physical machine, the opportunity to make any config modifications you deem relevant and the ability to keep an eye on all the clients hosted on it. The VPSs offer comparable specs, but in most instances you cannot perform any kernel modifications or modifications, which necessitate kernel module reconfiguration. The best hosting Control Panel tool that allows you to resell hosting accounts availing of your dedicated web hosting server or virtual hosting server is, once again, cPanel, even though you can also use DirectAdmin, depending on which Control Panel graphical user interface befits your requirements better.

What do you need to be a web hosting reseller?

In order to be a web hosting reseller and start your reseller web hosting business, you require a website, an invoicing software system, a merchant account with an online payment processor like PayPal, WorldPay, MoneyBookers, 2CheckOut, and so on, and an SSL certificate to guarantee that your customers' info is defended when they make payments using your website when ordering a web hosting service. Popular invoicing software platforms that you can avail of are WHMCS, AWBS and ClientExec. The guys at ResellersPanel, however, offer you a free hosting reseller account with all that included in it - a ready-to-use web site, an invoicing software platform and even support for your customers. Their hosting reseller program is without an analogue on the market, since they charge and support your clients for you, and allow you to sell our services without the need to buy anything upfront yourself. Besides, they allow you to resell all their hosting services - shared hosting solutions, VPS servers, semi-dedicated and dedicated web hosting plans. You can sell all of these to your customers via a ready-for-use web template. The profit you make is in fact the difference between their wholesale price and the price you determine yourself, so all you have to do is be a decent marketing strategist and obtain clients. If that is a little too bold for you, they still supply shared cPanel hosting reseller plans, as most reseller web hosting companies do, and you can always obtain a VPS web hosting server or a dedicated web hosting server and divide it into website hosting accounts, which you can offer yourself. The bonuses coming with their cPanel hosting reseller plans will render your reseller life easier too - they give you ClientExec in order to bill and support your customers, a compilation of website skins and even a charge-free eNom reseller account. We have datacenter facilities in 4 countries - Australia, the United States of America and England. It is a unique opportunity for you to spread your hosting business on 3 continents. What more could you wish for?