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Some Facts Pertaining To Reseller Hosting
There are three different categories of hosting services and these are shared hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting is usually the most common, where you pay a yearly or monthly fee to your hosting company in lieu of a pre-determined amount of server space and bandwidth, with some extra features, such as PHP support and CGI. In dedicated hosting, en entire server is leased out to a specific client, over which they have full control. However, when a hosting company is just starting out, it would not have the capital for its own server or the time necessary for the proper maintenance of the same. Companies offering hosting services under such situations would be offering reseller hosing packages, where the hosting company would not be required to buy or rent its own servers.
So, what exactly is reseller hosting?
In this type of hosting, a web host would buy a bulk plan from the hosting company. It would then sub divide the plan into small categories and then resell the same to individual users. People interested in starting their own hosting reseller business can procure large scale hosting packages together with the capability to host bulk domain names. They can then devise ways and means to provide the packages and plans to individual customers, without having to go into the specifics of owning, managing, and maintaining their own servers.
The server would be run and managed by the reselling company and the web hosts can go ahead and claim the servers as theirs, even when they do not have full access to the same. Web hosts can request the reselling companies to install modules to help run scripts and most reseller hosts would be happy to comply with the requests made.
Most individual site owners and even business users need relatively small amounts of space and bandwidth and it would not pay for them to go straight to the reselling companies. In general, a reseller account comes with a large amount of bandwidth and space and this is considerably large for being used by a single website. The web hosts on their part divide the large chunks into smaller units to go with the needs of individual site owners.
Some web hosts also offer unbranded reseller hosting plans where the services are offered in a way to make the web hosts appear nonexistent. The hosts use an ambiguous domain for their primary servers, and do not use their company name or brand name. The reseller of hosting services can tell their customers and clients that the server and the associated domains belong to them, which creates a better impression on the customers of the resellers.
Reseller hosting services are being used by individual entrepreneurs and also quite a few web hosting companies who are reselling bandwidth and server space to create a space for themselves in the web hosting industry. All they have to do is pay a reasonable monthly cost and they can get started. They would also not have to work around worries pertaining to proper and effective management of servers, maintenance of servers, and dealing with data centers. New and small web hosts can use this kind of hosting before graduating to their own semi-dedicated or dedicated servers.
