Reseller Hosting

Reseller Hosting

Reseller Hosting is a generic term that applies to several types of Web Hosting. It is not a definition of the type of Web Hosting on offer, as such, like the kind of person offering it.

A hosting reseller buys a larger Web Hosting account from a Web hosting company, and in turn sells some of their account to their own customers. They are essentially providing the services of a web hosting company, without having to set up and finance the expensive hardware and the maintenance of it themselves. This kind of web hosting is popular with web hosting companies, for example, start, companies with a broad portfolio of sites, and web design companies who want to offer their hosting customers.

A reseller hosting offers can be shared, VPS or Dedicated solutions (see part two). Customers tend to benefit from cheaper Web Hosting as a Reseller often purchases their Web Hosting at a discount. The only major drawback with Reseller Hosting is that the Reseller is also a corporate customer they purchased their hosting out of first. The more advanced the accommodation they offer, most support the dealer can give you directly - but as a customer of a reseller, you can contact the dealer to a technical failure, which in turn should contact her or its hosting company.

Reseller Hosting is only intended to Dave if he decides to sell hosting to other people, or expand his business with a large portfolio of other sites. If he did not try to do any of these it would probably stick with Shared Hosting - because it is the most common form of accommodation, it is also the most popular, and he had to get more use out of him. For now, Dave thinks he is happy with a single site, it would just prefer to have more control and performance as his site gets very busy and it has a bit demanding redesign plans in mind. Thus, in the second part of this article we will examine some of the most advanced web hosting options available to Dave (and you, of course).