Large hosting companies offer their clients dedicated, managed or shared hosting. Dedicated and managed hosting is necessary for large companies like Woolworths. Shared hosting caters for the smaller companies at reduced rates. In order to maintain the maximum profit level, the large hosting company will concentrate on servicing their big clients that are using dedicated and managed hosting. Their concentration will also be to keep their servers well maintained.
To keep the millions of other smaller companies and persons as clients, at a reduced cost, the large hosting company will offer reseller hosting packages as an option to small businesses and other persons that may be interested in this service. Instead of handling individuals, which would occupy a lot of their resources, the reseller hosting packages transfers this responsibility to the reseller. They would still, however, offer some support, when needed.
Top reseller hosting packages will offer the reseller the maximum amount of flexibility. This allows the reseller to sub-divide his resources according to his clients’ needs and in a manner that he can make the most profit. Reseller hosting packages defines how many domains that a reseller may host on his account, the amount of disk space and band-width available to him. It will also list the other products, such as MySQL, PHP, MyAdmin, cpanel and email accounts.
Companies that are most successful with reseller hosting packages, usually offer their clients additional services such as web designing and publishing. They would also have a large number of links on their websites that would provide resources and tools that their clients may need. Most reseller hosting packages allow their clients to operate under their own company or individual name, or even anonymously.
A reseller should regularly advise his clients of new products and services that become available and help them to become established in this industry. Regular contact with them will build a long-term relationship. As his clients grow, they would need to upgrade their hosting requirements resulting in higher profits for him.
Reseller hosting packages are designed to give almost everyone the opportunity to become successful web hosting companies, with dedication and consistent work.