| The business of web hosting can be divided into | | | | administration. So by offering reseller-hosting |
| various categories depending on the type of | | | | packages, the company is essentially focusing on |
| server: dedicated, shared or virtual and reseller | | | | division of labor while they get more time at hand |
| web hosting. Web hosting involves much more | | | | for handling their technical issues and enhancing |
| than just maintaining and connecting your website | | | | their expertise in the same. |
| to the Internet. Web hosting features various | | | | The second category of companies that offer |
| characteristics that can enrich the visitor's and site | | | | reseller packages include the ones that lease or |
| owner's experience. The dedicated web hosting | | | | collocate their own dedicated servers in secure |
| account has a unique IP address and the user's | | | | data center facilities. It is the responsibility of the |
| website is the only website on the server. This | | | | company to maintain their servers. |
| type of hosting is quite powerful albeit expensive. | | | | It is important to note here that the server is run |
| Shared hosting on the other hand offers a specific | | | | and maintained by the company from whom the |
| bandwidth and disk space along with some | | | | reseller package has been purchased. If in the |
| additional features. As the name suggests, | | | | event, the reseller wants any changes or |
| different users share the same server in this | | | | modifications to be done on the server, the |
| type of hosting. | | | | company would readily do it for their clients. i.e. |
| In this article, we would discuss reseller hosting | | | | module installation or running a script. |
| and its related aspects. With reseller hosting, the | | | | The best part of reseller hosting is that everyone |
| user essentially resells the web hosting plans by | | | | benefits from it. The web-hosting seller makes a |
| buying a bulk plan from the web hosting company. | | | | profit by selling a high priced product web-hosting |
| It becomes the company's responsibility to | | | | product to a reseller while they get to divide their |
| maintain and manage the server at their data | | | | workload. The reseller on the other hand benefits |
| center. The bulk plan that is purchased by the | | | | by gaining access to the prime server resources |
| user or reseller is then subdivided into smaller | | | | in a cost effective manner. The end-user in turn |
| plans and resold to individual users. Users would | | | | benefits by getting superior customer and |
| get the same quality of services and support with | | | | technical support, which is often better than the |
| a reseller as they would with the parent web | | | | parent hosting company. |
| hosting company. | | | | Reseller web hosting is more than just a web |
| There are two categories of web hosting | | | | hosting business for the reseller. While the |
| companies that offer reseller web hosting | | | | business has great potential to generate huge ROI |
| packages. | | | | for the resellers; the reseller can also opt for this |
| The first category includes the large data centers | | | | type of package if they happen to own multiple |
| that house large number of web servers. These | | | | domain names and are looking for a |
| companies are well equipped with resources | | | | cost-effective method in order to manage them |
| required for optimum server maintenance and | | | | all efficiently. |