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Reseller hosting allows a web host's customers to repackage and sell accounts to other customers. It works much the same like any resale business model where the retailer buys at wholesale rates and sells at retail. To be specific, the web host provides large amounts of space and bandwidth to the customer, who then sells limited resources in packages to other customers.
The main advantage of this arrangement is that an individual or company that wants to get started in this business won't need to invest in infrastructure. The task of maintaining servers and providing support to customers is done by the host. So the startup can simply focus on marketing and sales.
So the important thing here is to find reliable reseller hosting providers. It's a lot more important because this is not just the usual host to single customer relationship. If the host who owns the server screws up, then the one who resold the packages will be held to account by all the customers.
Check the host's online credentials on review sites and find out what existing customers think about their service. There are also certain specific issues to consider in this case. For instance, hosts provide a control panel using which all the customer accounts can be managed.
It is important to find out what kind of control panel (Plesk, Helm, cPanel, etc.) the host is offering, and how many customer accounts (usually unlimited) can be managed using it. Also to be considered is the amount of space and bandwidth capacity provided by the host, which is also usually unlimited. Then there's the billing system which should be provided for free by the host.
Also remember to check whether the host has name servers and customers can order add-ons like extra domains and sub-domains, databases, email accounts, web design tools, etc. It's necessary that the host support all this, and the reseller be able to sell each item as an add-on. The sum of it is that the host has to have everything a customer needs, and the reseller should be able to insert these items into packages and sell them.
While this arrangement is perfect for B2B transactions between two web hosts, it can also be between the web host and an individual or corporate customer who simply needs a lot of space and bandwidth but doesn't want to pay for a dedicated server. The customer can get the unlimited space and bandwidth and then pass the costs on to other customers using reseller hosting.
