Top 7 Reseller Hosting Tips
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
The world of reseller hosting might be a little confusing to some. However, with the right tips in hand – anybody can be a reseller hosting success. In a nut shell, reseller hosting is a form of web site hosting where the account owner has the ability to use their allotted space and bandwidth to host their own or a third parties’ web site. The account owner can sell the allotted space and bandwidth to the third party in question, and (in most cases) make a profit.
To help you get started in the world of reseller web hosting, here are a few tips you might look into or follow:
- Start off small. Don’t think you have to sell 10 or 20 accounts in one day. Start out with a couple, and expand as need.
- You don’t actually have to sell the space. It is up to you how you want to setup the web sites on it.
- Go to friends and family members first, if you are looking for your own customers.
- Go visit webmaster related forums, and look for web site designers or customers that might be looking for a new or a different web host. Then pitch your own service to them.
- Look for your own unique perks or services you can give to your own clients you are reselling to, so that you can make a good first impression.
- Keep a watchful eye over those you are hosting, to make sure they don’t get you in trouble with your reseller hosting provider.
- Get a billing manager in place to help manage your own accounts you are reselling. The Lunarpages Webmaster Reseller plan comes with a nice one you can add as a service, AccountLab Plus.
Speaking of Lunarpages, we now offer two great plans for web hosting resellers out there. Check them out here:
I hope those reseller web hosting tips will be of some use to you. If you have any more tips, be sure to share them in the comments. Would love to hear your own web hosting reseller success stories too, if you have them.
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Original post by Mitch