Why become a hosting reseller?

Why become a hosting reseller?

Why become a hosting reseller?

How often have you been asked by a client to recommend a company to host their website and you have pointed them in the direction of your own web host? As a web designer or developer you have a client base that needs web hosting for the sites you are creating and offering web hosting and domain names should be a natural extension to any web designer/ developer's service portfolio. From the client's perspective they do not have enough knowledge of the hosting market to find a web host easily and will happily buy hosting from someone who can handle all aspects of their site. From the designer's perspective it becomes a healthy source of recurring revenue as well as maintaining customer contact once the initial design work is complete.

Becoming a web host

One option designers take is to host their client's sites from their own web site's Virtual Private Server (VPS) or dedicated server. Killing two birds with one stone can make financial sense at first; however hosting multiple clients' websites this way can soon become an administrative nightmare. Web hosting is more than just allocating web space to store and access the site's HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript files. A specialist reseller solution provides you with an environment built specifically for the set up and management of client's hosting accounts, creating tiered hosting plans, automating emails and managing billing.

A search on Google for "reseller hosting" shows there are a lot of reseller hosting suppliers to choose from. The best reseller packages are offered as completely white label (also know as private label) and should allow you to tailor every component to your own requirements so that the client need never know their website is hosted with anyone else. The other main features we always recommend looking at are whether the host has any limitations on the amount of web space, traffic, Emails and databases you can re-sell, do they offer both Linux and Windows accounts and which programs do they provide for you to offer to your clients (e.g. one click install WordPress)? When it comes to deciding whether to use a host in the US or the UK your main consideration should be do you get access to free support during US business hours?

Pricing structure

How much you charge should be based on your initial investment, your customer base's price sensitivity and any local rivals' pricing structure. It is also worth considering offering a discounted rate for customers who pay for a full year in advance. Once you are up and running a good place to start building your hosting customer base is with the clients you have worked for in the past. If they were happy with your work get in touch with what you can offer them and an incentive to move over to you (maybe offer to do the transfer for them?).

Supporting your customers

Unfortunately hosting isn't a 'fire and forget' product. You need to be clear from the start the level of support you will offer to your clients. If you have set up a completely white label solution, your clients will come to you directly and you should expect to have to put aside time to do this. Support issues that can arise may be as simple as them forgetting their Email log in details, which you can deal with very quickly, through to their site's database crashing taking everything else down with it. A problem like this will be fixed by the reseller host however you will need to inform them about it and essentially liaise between your client and your reseller host.

Lasting relationships

Reselling web hosting puts you at the centre of each stage in the process from concept to execution to launch, helping you to develop long term relationships with your clients. Even if you decide to offer the hosting on a cost basis, the long term benefits (e.g. being the likely first port of call for future design work) make it a worthwhile investment.

We offer an affordable way for you to get into the Hosting Business. Our Reseller Hosting allows you to keep your costs low while building an income for your online business and you get to keep 100% of the money you collect. Now you can have your web site hosted while offering the hosting services to others all with one reseller account. If you need a host with fast and reliable servers, great uptime and a competent support staff then our unmetered reseller hosting packages are for you.

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