How does reseller hosting work?
What is the client base of the reseller hosting service providers? It consists of web designers or web design companies dealing mostly with website design services. Small ISPs, very influent Search Engine Optimization webmasters and different web opportunists are also part of the reseller hosting picture.
Popular reseller hosting models
Currently, the most widely spread business model is the cPanel hosting reseller service, where the reseller pre-pays for a chosen reseller web hosting package (with certain amounts of space, traffic, hosted domains, etc.) on a monthly basis (at wholesale prices). Then the reseller package is sliced down into smaller shared web hosting packages, which are later sold to the customers at retail prices set by the reseller. The reseller's profit is formed by the difference between the wholesale and the retail hosting prices.
cPanel's third party billing software setup
The cPanel-based reseller has to take care of the billing platform provision (a merchant account integrated into a third party billing system is required) and the 24/7 customer and sales support provision. The reseller also plays the role of a bridge between the customers and the domain registrar where the domains are actually being registered, transferred or renewed on clients’ behalf (a domain reseller account working with the billing system is required too).
No domain, billing and client support management tools in cPanel?!?
By the way, cPanel does not offer any domain registration, billing and customer support management tools. These are part of the third party billing software. Very impressive. And modern. An advanced 21st century solution: two customer login locations (the cPanel Control Panel itself and the billing/ticket support/domain management system). And that’s just for starters...
Rare, yet better reseller hosting alternatives
On very rare occasions you might be lucky to find other very successful hosting reseller schemes, like the one offered by ResellersPanel. There are no monthly reseller prepayments or deposits. It's as simple as that: if a sale is made, there is a charge, in all other occasions - there isn't. Sounds like with ResellersPanel there are no financial risks for the resellers. Our opinion is that ResellersPanel’s model is probably way better than the currently very popular cPanel hosting reseller scheme. Read further to find out why.
ResellersPanel - the risk-free reseller hosting model
Above all, unlike the cPanel reseller hosting providers, ResellersPanel will not charge the reseller a single dime. Not unless the reseller generates any new sales or renewals. Which is very logical, actually. This reduces the financial risk to ground-zero levels. With ResellersPanel's reseller hosting scheme, the reseller is not involved with monthly or annual prepayments, subscriptions, reseller fees or deposits whatsoever. While the famous cPanel reseller hosting scheme is based only on monthly or annual prepayments and subscriptions, which means... much higher financial risks. Unlike ResellersPanel's reseller hosting model, the cPanel reseller hosting scheme does not care whether the reseller has made any sales or not - the monthly or annual reseller fees have to be paid on time, i.e. have to be prepaid. Period.
US, European and Australian cloud hosting services
ResellersPanel is not only a risk-free reseller hosting solution. ResellersPanel offers real CLOUD WEB HOSTING accounts for reselling. Elsewhere, there is some partial evidence for the existence of a cloud hosting platform. The cloud hosting accounts the resellers can custom build and sell on behalf of their hosting brand names are available at four data center locations: in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in Sweden and in Australia! How many cPanel reseller hosting providers offer multi-continent data center location alternatives? How many cPanel web hosting companies offer cloud hosting services to the resellers and to their customers?
VPS, semi-dedicated and dedicated server reseller services
How many reseller hosting providers, except ResellersPanel, allow their resellers to sell VPSs, semi-dedicated servers and dedicated servers at very competitive prices? Hepsia, the industry-leading hosting Control Panel, is also included there, by default, at no extra or additional charge. Unlimited hosted domains, SSH and full root access are also part of the feature-rich server packages. On top of that, the resellers can also sell over 50 generic and country code top-level domain names and SSL certificates to their customers.