Even web developers can become a web host reseller. By becoming one, they can not only provide websites for their customers, but they can also offer web hosting as well. To be a reseller, you need to look for a web host that can give a lot of web hosting accounts and excellent reseller features. From there, you can decide to host the websites of your clients.

There are some things you need to have before you can call yourself an effective web hosting reseller.

One, you must have multiple domain hosting. You can utilize the spare domain accounts for your clients’ websites. For example, supposing you acquired a web host that gives at most 7 domain accounts. You can use one for your own site, and offer the rest to the clients for a fee.

Second, you should have full control of the control panel for administrative functions. Better yet, you try to look for a web hosting provider that will not only give you your own control panel but can provide your other clients with their own too. Most of all, you should have the ability to hide the true identity of the web hosts so your clients wouldn’t know that you’re simply a reseller of another third-party service. Moreover, the web host should give you a way of customizing the control panel to fit your needs and requirements.

It is also important that your web hosting can provide reliable and fast customer and technical support. Should something happen to any or your client’s website, it is vital that you can solve the problem immediately. It’s because if the clients are unhappy with your web hosting service, it will affect your other services too.

Most of all, don’t forget to send terms and conditions to your clients. If it’s too tiring for you to create your own, you can simply ask for a copy from your web hosting provider or better yet supply you of policies fit for your purpose.

 

Reselling will work effectively for you if you can find a dependable web hosting site. Expect, however, that it will eat a portion of your time and may also demand considerable effort. Nevertheless, just rest on the fact that aside from additional income, you’re bringing more smiles to your clients.

Perhaps web hosting is not that difficult at all. At least that is what dotster and 1and1 make it look like. Thanks to services like bluehost, now absolutely anyone can have linux shared hosting. These hosts not only provide shared hosting services but come really cheap too. Where else could one get web hosting & services in such a package.