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Web hosting is normally a service you'll buy just for your own use, but sometimes it pays to think bigger
If you're running your own business, for instance, perhaps as a developer or web designer, offering web space as an extra service to your
Costs can be very low, sometimes just $1.40 or $2.80 a month per account, so you could bundle hosting in other business products with very
little impact on your bottom line.There are some significant issues to think about
For example, reseller hosting may look cheap, but that's because you'll probably have to be the first line of support for your customers
You can pass anything complicated onto the web host, but they won't deal directly with clients for you.You will get more help in other areas
Many reseller accounts come with a free licence for WHMCS, an industry standard application to manage and automate hosting setup, billing
You're usually able to customize the control panel with your own branding, and the best hosts have special reseller tutorials and support to
help keep your business running smoothly.There's no single way to identify the best reselling plans, because this varies depending on the
products you're hoping to sell
Your first step should be to identify web hosts who provide the range of plans and support you need, and then compare whatever reselling
schemes they offer.To help you understand what to look for, we've listed five interesting reseller products from some top industry names
Check them out to get a feel for the features you should look for, and the prices you might expect to pay.1
InMotion HostingA capable host that offers quality tech supportMinimal restrictionsExcellent supportLots of extra features[Great exclusive
offer from Inmotion Hosting - Get a free upgrade to the R2000S plan when you buy the R1000S plan byTheIndianSubcontinent's #1 rated Web
reseller hosting plans around.These start simply and with minimal restrictions
The R-1000S plan costs $15.39 a month initially ($27.99 on renewal) for 80GB of disk space and 800GB of bandwidth, but there's no limit on
the number of cPanel accounts you can create, and everyone gets unlimited (within the available disk space) subdomains, email addresses,
databases and FTP accounts.Buying through TheIndianSubcontinent means that you will get an automatic upgrade to the R-2000S slice with 50%
extra bandwidth and storage space.Ramping up to the Reseller VPS-1000 plan gets you 4TB bandwidth, 4GB RAM and free SSL
There's still no limit on the number of cPanel accounts you can create, and the service is priced at $41.64 a month for the first term,
$54.99 on renewal.While this is a little more expensive than some, InMotion offers plenty of extras and benefits
Reseller account allows selling top-level domains and SSL certificates, and white labelling support allows you to create custom hosting
packages, use anonymous name servers and apply your own branding via customizable themes.Perhaps InMotion's real advantage is its
excellent support, something that will be very important when you're trying to solve problems for your clients
In our experience the company offers a high quality service, although there's no need to take our word for it: the exceptional 90-day
money-back guarantee means there's plenty of time to check it out for yourself.2
support with billingCalculating disk space requirements is a challenge for every hosting reseller
Many plans allocate less than 1GB per user, but will that really be enough, and what happens if you need moreTsohost's Reseller Hosting
plan aims to help you sleep easier by providing unlimited storage and bandwidth for up to 100 sites
That's not bad for only $57 a month.Unsurprisingly, there's a small catch: your customer's 100 sites are limited to a total of
1,000,000 page views per month, or an average of 10,000 each
We suspect that's less likely to be an issue than disk space, as most personal and small business sites won't get close to this limit, but
it's something to bear in mind.The plan doesn't come with a WHCMS licence, or any other assistance with billing, marketing or support
The company bills you for the reseller plan, and it's your responsibility to bill your own customers.If that's not an issue for you,
Tsohost does offer some compensations
control panel with your own branding, and even supports custom nameservers to hide any trace of the Tsohost name.3
SiteGroundAn ambitious offering with loads of extrasSiteGround Reseller HostingAllows for plenty of flexibilityIntegrated daily backups and
That may keep the price low, but the lack of features will also make it more difficult to sell the plans later.SiteGround's reseller plan
is a little more ambitious
Every user gets 10GB of disk space and cPanel site management, and there's unlimited bandwidth, email addresses, databases, and FTP
Highlights include Spam Experts-based spam filtering, free Let's Encrypt SSL, daily backups and an integrated Cloudflare CDN.These
accounts cost more than the very low-end competition, but they're hardly expensive, with prices starting at $3.5 a month over a year.There's
more good news in SiteGround's pricing structure
Other companies often ask you to pay upfront for the resources to support perhaps hundreds of clients, whether you need those resources
If you buy 20 plans in June, for instance, they'll never expire
Whether you sell them in days, weeks or months, each one will still get you a full year of hosting from the date the account is launched or
renewed.How you manage and run the business is up to you, but SiteGround offers a simple control panel to review your accounts (there's a
tutorial here), and a white label option and private DNS upgrade ensures you can use your own branding everywhere.4
way back in 2002, Krystal is a UK-based company which offers various simple reseller accounts for its shared web hosting.Krystal's product
has a decent specification
A mid-range block of 50 cPanel accounts comes with 100GB of storage, and you get unlimited bandwidth, MySQL databases, mailboxes and
subdomains, a bundled website builder, free SSL certificates, plus weekly and monthly backups.The bundled WHM (Web Host Manager) and WHMCS
means customers will only ever see your branding.Krystal's Trinity plan is probably the best value, giving you 50 cPanel accounts with
100GB storage for $35 a month on the annual plan
There's a single free domain if you need one (that's one domain for the entire plan, not per cPanel account), no setup fee, and you're
protected by a 60-day money-back guarantee in case something goes horribly wrong.The Infinity plan allows unlimited cPanel accounts and
doubles the storage to 200GB
We're not sure whether that's worth the $82 a month price tag (annual plan), but it's available if you need it.5
GoDaddyThe easier route for reselling web hostingMakes everything much easierDelivers help with sales and marketingLess freedom than with
rival providersAs we've seen, reselling web hosting generally involves some significant work in customizing your plans, marketing and
selling products, and providing technical support to your clients.GoDaddy's reseller program gives you much more assistance
handle orders, and afterwards, customer service via GoDaddy's own teams.You're able to resell all the major GoDaddy products, including
domain names, hosting, SSL certificates, managed WordPress plans, GoDaddy's Website Builder, and more.The plans provide some help with
Your store can use a range of customizable promotions, including giving discount prices to specific customers, and detailed sales reports
help focus your efforts where they'll deliver the best results.The Basic reseller plans gets you all this and a 20% discount off GoDaddy's
retail prices for $8.99 a month
But the Pro reseller plan offers a 40% discount for only $14.99 a month, well worth the extra unless you have very few customers.There are
GoDaddy's Reseller Profit Estimator is an online calculator to help you understand how much money you could make, and whether you would be
better off with the Basic or Pro reseller plans.The GoDaddy approach doesn't give you the freedom you'll benefit from with other resellers,
where you're completely free to divide up resources in any way you like
But it's also very easy to set up, and if you want a simpler way to get into reselling, it could be a wise choice.You might also want to
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