Tony Alves – Starting a Home Business

Reseller web hosting is similar to Shared or Virtual Web Hosting in that all of the accounts in a Reseller Web Hosting account are on the same server and share the same resources. The major difference between shared web hosting and reseller web hosting is in the account accessibility. With a Reseller Web Hosting account, the “customer” becomes a Web Hosting Reseller.

These Reseller Web Hosting account holders usually have many Web Sites that they need to be hosted, so instead of paying hosting for each Web Site separately, they purchase a Reseller account which has large capacity of disc space and bandwidth (sometimes unlimited).

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This way, they can have all their web sites hosted under one main account and much cheaper than if they had to pay for each Web Site Hosting separately. They can also sell Virtual or Shared Web Hosting to other Web Site owners at very low prices. Reseller Hosting accounts have virtually an unlimited number of cPanels which can be setup for each hosting account and this is what enables the Web Hosting Reseller to sell Web Hosting services.

The owner of a Reseller Hosting account is given administrative access to the main control panel. With admin access, the owner has the ability to create and manage a number of personal hosting accounts. The number of accounts depends on the reseller hosting package. Each hosting account can be set up on its own domain and has its own cPanel. This is what makes it possible for the Reseller Hosting account holder to sell hosting.

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Most of these unlimited reseller hosting accounts come with an endless supply of software, eBooks, pictures, templates, and some turnkey websites to get the customer started and the cost of hosting can be a small upfront fee with no monthly fees, or just a small monthly fee.

If the Reseller account holder decides to sell Web Hosting, he/she will need to offer technical support as part of the service, or pay somebody to provide customer service and technical support. Sometimes the main hosting company where the reseller purchased his or her Reseller Account is willing to help with the technical support part however the customer service part is the responsibility of the Reseller.

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Anyone can purchase a Reseller Hosting account. They actually have become somewhat popular among intermediate and advanced Web Site owners. Some of these Reseller account holders have found a way to make it easy to help other people design their own Web Sites where they can sell products. There are several sources for getting Reseller Hosting accounts. One very good source is www.kiosk.com. This is where I purchased my own Reseller Hosting account.

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