http://www.4resellers.info The Reseller's Blog - Musing and Newsing about Web Hosting and Hosting Reselling Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:37:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many web hosting companies, aka hosts, offer reseller plans. Why do they do that? why not just sell directly to the end customer and keep the profit? The reason is simple. The host expects you, the reseller, to help them advertise and expand their business. You are working as a ... http://www.4resellers.info/17/why-do-hosts-offer-reseller-plans.html As a hosting reseller, you may want to offer your customers an option to buy domain names from you. As a reseller you wil usually get the domain names at around $5-6 each and will be able to resell them for anything as high as $35 per domain. And remember, ... http://www.4resellers.info/16/domain-name-reselling.html Hosting is a huge business. Everyone needs hosting, and if they don’t need it now, they will need it in the future. In theory, you could have hundreds of clients for your reseller business. It’s always prudent to start small, and with reseller hosting, there should be no problem ... http://www.4resellers.info/15/how-big-is-your-hosting-business.html Becoming a hosting reseller is a great business opportunity that is available to most people. $100 for the first two months will get you a long way. That’s a very small investment to start running a business… You can get your own website for cheap. A domain is under $10 these ... http://www.4resellers.info/13/the-cost-of-becoming-a-reseller.html With most hosting reseller plans, your host provides you with a WHM panel, that’s where you can create hosting accounts for your clients. The mother hosting company is basically out of the loop. You pay them for the hosting and your clients pay you. When you see a polished website offering ... http://www.4resellers.info/14/should-your-clients-know-youre-a-reseller.html As a hosting reseller you are not an affiliate. This is important to remember. An affiliate is someone who puts a banner or a link to the hosting company on their site. If someone clicks that and purchases hosting, the affiliate is given money. It’s as simple as that, ... http://www.4resellers.info/12/hosting-reseller-vs-hosting-affiliate.html Whenever you can, visit sites you are hosting. Even if your host guarantees 99.9% uptime, it never hurts to check on them every once in a while. Speed is another thing you want to check. See if the sites are slow or fast to load. Keep in mind that the speed, ... http://www.4resellers.info/11/check-on-your-host.html As with any business, it’s imperative to network, network, network. Don’t be shy and don’t be afraid of sharing information with others. Yes, they are your competition, but this is a huge market and if you exchange ideas with a few fellow resellers, you and them will have the edge ... http://www.4resellers.info/10/network-with-peers.html We don’t mean your personal homepage, or your hobby related site. We’re talking about your online shop front, the site where your hosting reseller business is running. Make sure your site looks professional. This means your own domain name of course. Don’t use something like geocities.com/yourname as your web address. Nothing ... http://www.4resellers.info/9/your-own-website.html Your web host is your most important business partner. You’re not just hosting your own site there, you’re hosting your client’s sites there as well. Make sure you are familiar with your hosts terms of service. Read both the general TOS and the one pertaining to Resellers. Follow them to the ... http://www.4resellers.info/7/connect-with-your-host.html