What is reseller hosting?

Most people will never come across this term and it is not a common practice. But to understand it properly, you can compare it to subleasing a property. Basically, reseller hosting allows you to sell off different parts of the space on your hosting to other people or other businesses. You can even resell that space for the same price that you are paying for it from the main provider. This will make sure that you pay off your website hosting and you can also make a handsome profit. Of course, this is if you are really good at marketing the reseller package.

That being said, a reseller hosting account is something that you don’t have to pay a lot for but it is not as great as a dedicated server. However it is a lot better than shared hosting because reseller hosting services offer a set amount of services that you expect. Shared hosting will not offer a certain amount, it is just relative to what space is available for you.

What does this mean?

This basically means that you can offer reseller hosting accounts with plans. Each of the plans has a certain bandwidth, amount of space and even domains that are hosted. These plans are not small either. This is how you can make money. How? By simply offering your services as if you were a hosting company yourself. You can take these plans and brand them as your own and then advertise them. You can then sell them the way other hosting companies sell their services. This is a great way to scale the packages and then make quick profit. In the long run, you can make enough money from reseller hosting to pay off the main host and still have some money left for you to invest more into your own business or do whatever you please.

What is web hosting?

Basically, you are offering a space for your customers to park their websites with given customized domain names. By doing this you are renting out a space on your server for that website for a certain fee which can be monthly, quarterly, or yearly. It really depends on you. Now, there are two types of web hosting packages and this is the managed and unmanaged options. By maintaining a small business web hosting company, you are offering a managed option to your customers. This is because you will be managing everything for your customer. The unmanaged option is when your customers will do things on their own by investing in their own hardware, operating system, and Internet connection.

What should I offer to my managed option clients?

You have to realize that the people who will usually get the managed option will not be technically savvy. This is why they go with this option in the first place. These customers can include bloggers, people who want to start their own sites without the technical hassle, etc. By offering a managed plan to your customers, you need to give them the basics of web hosting which means that you should handle everything for your customer to a certain point so that all they need to worry about is their website and their content.

Should I charge high?

This really depends on your expertise in the industry of the Internet as a small business web hosting company. As a small business, you cannot expect to charge high to various companies only to find that you cannot supply their demands. What you need to do is find out how much you can offer to your customers, how much space you can maintain for them, and also how much money you can put in yourself to maintain all your hardware because of that demand. Of course, the money should be coming from the client but you should always be ready when you need to maintain something about your web hosting company that is not the responsibility of your clients.