Becoming a reseller of web hosting can be a profitable business. For a small investment each month you can get enough disk space and bandwidth to host multiple domains for other clients or yourself. Most large web hosting companies have reseller plans that can be used. And as your business scales up you can go to a dedicated server plan to make full use of the resources and configuration for your clients or yourself.
Reseller web hosting means to split up the disk space and bandwidth you pay for into smaller amounts which you resell to other clients. If the total you get paid for the smaller chunks is more than what you paid for the total then you will make a profit each month for each customer you have.
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The more customers you get the more profit you make. If you get one customer a week at the end of a year you will have 52 customers paying a regular monthly cost which will usually be more than what you pay, get more than one a week and it soon mounts up.
You could of course just use the plan for yourself and host multiple domain names for your self and build lots of mini-sites around various niches for use to earn a monthly profit from each domain.
Depending on your web host you do the selling and your host takes care of support and other issues, it depends what you pay for and what you are prepared to do. Your web host may include design and programming skills as well that you can sell on or other tools your customers may want like web conference rooms.
Its best to get familiar with a reseller web hosting account control panel before moving up to a dedicated server otherwise you may lose time and money while you go through a learning curve.
Most of the time, you will be doing two things.
1. Creating and deleting accounts which are very easy with WHM (Web Host Manager) and Cpanel accounts.
2. Allocating the amount of disk space and bandwidth to the separate accounts. This is usually nothing more than entering a value and hitting the save button. Automated scripts take care of the rest.
You could also have a virtual server which means you may be sharing a machine with other users virtual servers. You can ask your web hosting company about the various choices available and how many accounts you can host for a given amount of space and bandwidth.
Check your web host regarding support, some will provide for you and some will expect you to look after your own customers especially if you have a dedicated server. Also backups of data and databases may be important, some hosts will cover this others may charge extra, especially for any restores, so do check out the fine print.
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