Because web hosting is a service that is required by any business that has an online presence, it is potentially a very lucrative business to go into. One of the best ways of entering this line of business is by reselling web hosting plans.
However there are some important questions you should ask yourself before signing up for a reseller account. Probably the most important is how much tiome you can confidently avail to the new business. Do you really have the time to market your services?
Make no mistake about it; marketing a web hosting business is very hard work that will require hours of dedication. Especially at the beginning when you will also need to learn as much as you can on how to market the enterprise.
Then you need to consider the issue of support. The quality of the support is critical to the success of any web hosting business. …

You’re the webmaster of more than one website. You design websites for clients. Your business needs more than one site. Is a web host reseller account for you?
What is a web host reseller account?
A web host reseller account is a web hosting account that allows you to create hosting packages to sell to your clients. You can also host multiple sites of your own using the disk space allotted to the one hosting account.
Typical features of web host reseller accounts:

They come with a reseller-level control panel that allows you to create your own packages.
You can allocate disk space and bandwidth to each site on the account and change the space and bandwidth specifications if the site’s needs change.
Most reseller accounts provide the option for private nameservers (also called private label, personalized nameservers, or virtual nameservers). For example, if your reseller account is with SomeName Hosting and your …

1. Individuals or businesses with more than one website
If you have more than one website and the total disk space you need is 500 MB or more, you can benefit from having a reseller account. The cost for web hosting is lower than if you have individual accounts for each site. Also, you can adjust the disk space and bandwidth allocations for each site.
2. Related service providers
A reseller account is also useful for people who provide related services. If you’re a web designer, for example, why stop at designing sites? Provide your clients with web hosting under your company name, and you continue to earn revenue from your web design clients.
Let’s say that you pay $40 a month for a 3-GB reseller account. If you offer 30 100-MB packages at $7 a month, you could earn up to $170 a month (after subtracting your cost) from that reseller account. …

Advantages

You can have more flexibility with your web hosting accounts.
You can save money.
You can earn more revenue at little cost to yourself.
You can focus on customer support and leave technical support to your web host.
Your web host, not you, absorbs server maintenance costs.

Disadvantages

Your service is only as good as your upstream provider. If the server is frequently down, for example, you may lose clients.
If you ever have to change web hosts, the move will be an inconvenience for your clients as well as for yourself.

Next: Step 4 -> Steps to becoming a web host reseller
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You’ve decided to get a reseller web hosting account to resell web space. What now? Here’s a step-by-step guide.
1. Choose the platform you want to use.
More open source software programs are available for Linux than for Windows, which makes Linux less expensive. While most programs (Perl, PHP, Flash, etc.) run on both platforms, a few run on only Windows or Linux. A site that requires ASP or MS Access, for example, requires a Windows platform.
2. Choose the control panel you want to use.
Control panels for websites range from very basic to loaded with features. As a reseller, you’ll also have a control panel for you to set up and control hosting accounts.
In Choosing Your Hosting Automation Software, we compare several control panels, all of which offer good features for web host resellers.
3. Choose your web host.
The web host company that you choose for your reseller account is …