Reseller Hosting Services
Reseller Hosting, What is it?
Reseller hosting is a type of hosting services where an existing hosting company sells you some of their hosting space and amount of bandwidth on a server. The monthly fee is usually more than that of standard hosting, but compensates for the increased amount of space, bandwidth, and the additional software licenses that sometimes have to be purchased for use on a reseller hosting account.
The alloted resources are then available to be distributed to other sites or customers for standard web hosting. Each individual website hosted off the reseller packaging usually receives their own control panel account (such as cPanel or Plesk) for their use. Customers percieve absolutely no difference between a company using a reseller web hosting account and a host which leases their own server(s).
The Advantages
There are many advantages for you to buy a reseller hosting package. While the bandwidth and space may be more expensive per unit than that purchased with a dedicated server, reseller accounts allow the space and bandwidth to be purchased in smaller portion. That way smaller hosts aren't wasting resources - and subsequently money. This allows new hosts to grow into a dedicated server instead of taking the large initial plunge with the much higher monthly fee. A start up host may now yield a small profit instead of a large loss month after month.
A hard drive might go bad on a server, an operating system might be corrupt, a cable might break. There are just things that could go wrong at any time. With reseller hosting, the majority of the time someone else is responsible for the problem. While it may be little piece of mind if your customers experience some downtime, it is someone else's server, and it won't be your responsibility to install security updates to key software or replace hardware that has failed.
