What is Reseller Web Hosting ? Advantages and Disadvantages
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Web hosting involves many products or in other words types of web hosting for different customers.But what if you want to become a web hosting provider or you want to change your plan if you are already a web hosting provider.If this is the case with you then reseller web hosting is what you are looking for.Reseller as the word suggests,is a kind of web hosting type where you can be a seller and sell different kind of web hosting plans and that too with the amount of money you wish for each plan.A reseller account is good to start with,if you want your own web hosting service and want to provide people the service.It is also very good if you are a small scale web hosting reseller already.
Reseller web hosting allows you to provide the web hosting to other people and also if you have a reseller account you can use it entirely if you want to.It means you can host multiple websites under one web hosting account and even share the account with someone if you think that the resources are more than enough for you.So,it is also a kind of shared hosting account.The other advantage could be taken as the cost of the reseller account.As it is a kind of shared hosting account it costs comparatively less than the VPS and the Dedicated servers and the best part is you will have the many kind of features as the VPS and the dedicated servers with a less cost.So it can be considered as a cheaper alternative to VPS and dedicated server and as you can host multiple websites under the same account it can be considered as a very good option if you want to upgrade from a shared hosting account to a account which is as beneficial as the VPS and Dedicated servers but at an affordable.If you are providing a web hosting service to customers then make sure that your customers will never know that you are reselling the web hosting service which is yet another benefit to you.Also the support given with a reseller account is more openly given than the VPS or Dedicated server account.
After all these features you might think that Reseller web hosting does not have any disadvantages but amke sure it has.If you have a reseller account,then hosting multiple web sites might be problematic to you as your web hosting provider will not be good to you as your account is on the shared server on which he might have other customers who are not satisfied with the time taken by their website or websites to download.As it is a kind of shared hosting account you are on hosted on the shared server and as you are sharing the account it is possible that you will face the same kind of problems that are faced by a client who has an account on the shared server.Also,If you will upgrde from a shared hosting account to a reseller hosting account you might not notice any kind of increase in performance or reliability.It is said that you can sell the account to your own customers at a price you wish but,your web hosting provider will not allow overselling,that is selling the plans to the customers with the amount which is not appropriate and this can also be a disadvantage to you.
