Hosting for Resellers: Find your market place first!

By | April 27, 2009

I’ve done a little reselling in my time as a way to help others interested in webhosting their own websites. I do largely focus on helping individuals get online and learn some of the latest tools that are available. That is something really interesting for me to do.

I was pleased to come across another website that seems to offer Reseller Hosting Services that my kind of clients might like. It’s called Hosterio.

One of the nice features that you can get with this website is “…a master control panel known as WHM through which you can instantly add/delete hosting accounts of your customers. You can administer all your customer’s account from WHM itself.”

That’s a great feature in my opinion. I don’t have that feature in Dreamhost where I currently host, and I think it would help to add value to my existing customers. Each of my customers would “… get a cPanel control panel through which they can add/delete email accounts, manage databases, check site stats, create subdomains etc.” In addition, there are excellent features that my clients would love, such as Sitebuilder and Fantastico, both of which are included.

But it’s the backoffice support that I like, too. There are Billing Managers, Merchant Accounts, and Support Features that your customers can all use. Prices start at about $77.77 per Year (yes, per year) and go upto about $242.22 per year.

I think for a private label reseller website, that is pretty good. Now, I just wish I hadn’t paid my hosting bill just three weeks ago! Oh, well.

There are lots of Reseller packages out there to compare with, so if you are looking to make a little extra money, you could certainly do a little research. The trick with these though is not necessarily the package, it’s finding the willing market. So work on that aspect, and you will be more likely to be successful.