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What is reseller hosting?
Reseller hosting is a package which enables you to sell your own hosting plans at your own price. You can usually achieve this by renting or buying a private server or a small reseller hosting plans from big hosting companies such as GoDaddy or HostGator and allocate them for your customers to use it.
Why would you need a reseller hosting plan?
By becoming a reseller, you are making a business for yourselves. You can put your own price for your own hosting plans and sell them to people who would buy them. These could be your friends, family members or anyone else. Internet users are getting larger by the day and the demand for webhosting has greatly increased for the past 10 years. The internet itself is a big opportunity for business but it is only open to those who are ready to invest some of their time and money.
How would you make money by becoming a reseller?
A reseller account usually allocates a certain amount of space and bandwidth to be used. For example, you buy a reseller account which has 100GB space and 500GB bandwidth and costs you around $20 a month. If you split them to 50 different accounts and sell them to 50 different customers at a price of $10 a month, you would be making a profit of $480 and the initial cost of running the business would only be $20.
What are the factors that you would need to consider?
When purchasing a reseller account, you are limited by what the hosting company is allocating for you. You should also take into account that sometimes there are certain limits that you can use for which the hosting company is allocating. You are able to see the restrictions at your server’s phpinfo(). If you buy a dedicated server on the other hand, you can modify these restrictions yourself and create more satisfaction amongst your customers because they are able to install any scripts with the required requirements.
A cheap reseller account does not mean that it is good. Do not go for hosting companies that you have never heard of. Going to a trustworthy hosting company such as GoDaddy would probably save you less trouble rather than going with a small hosting company. Do take into account that there is no “UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH” available in the hosting world. Do not fall for these tricks as these are not possible to be attained by small hosting companies.
How can you achieve more?
To achieve more for your business to grow, you need to have a good customer service and support system. This would definitely be the first thing any customer would want to see. A hosting company which has a bad reputation with its customer would more likely be out of business quickly than other hosting companies which offer excellent support for their customers.
Dedication for your business is very important! Treat your business like it is one of your precious children. A business without dedication could not last long. If you don’t have the time, invest some of your money to hire a support staff or two so that things would be under control. When you have a good hold of your customers, other potential customers would likely be referred by your customer due to your good support system and customer service.