What is Reseller Web Hosting?

Typically, reseller web hosting refers to a service that allows businesses or entrepenuers to operate their own web hosting company. These services are typically "private-label", which means that you can market the company under your own brand name and the true web hosting provider will remain anonymous to your customers. What's great about reseller web hosting is most providers will give you all the tools you would need to operate your very own web hosting company. Tools like control panels for both you as the admin and your customers to manage their accounts. Billing tools to automate your customer billing, scripting tools and installations so you are offering your potential customers plenty of options to entice them to sign up for your plans and much, much more. Not to mention the fact that you will not have expensive costs in purchasing servers and other hardware.

Reselling web hosting is attractive and can be very lucrative due to the fact that you can attain residual or recurring monthly income that continues to grow as you add clients. You attract clients as if you were the actual company with the bank of web servers and data centers when in reality you are just a reseller and the actual provider remains transparent. One of the drawbacks is determining how you will offer customer support for your clients. Although your provider may give you all the tools necessary to manage your accounts and services online, they typically will not provide support for your clients - just for you. This could create issues if you attain users that need a lot of hand holding.