Reseller hosting is one type of web hosting where the account owner gets the authority to use the bandwidth and the hard drive space allotted to them in order to open a websites through a third party known as a reseller. A reseller buys the hosting services from the web hosting company and sells these services to its customers after adding some profit to it.
A certain part of the bandwidth and the hard drive space is allotted to the reseller’s account. It is up to the reseller whether to lease a committed server from a hosting company, or to resell the shared hosting services to other customers. If a reseller decides to resell a certain amount of his hard drive space and bandwidth to his own customers then he just sells them away to his customers and doesn’t rent a server from the web hosting company.
For starting a reseller hosting business doesn’t require broad knowledge about the technical portions of web hosting. The data center operator is usually, accountable for the maintenance of the hardware and the network infrastructure. Also the server holder secures, configures, and updates the server periodically, so none of the technical responsibility is on the shoulder of the reseller. He is accountable only for his own customers and works as an interface to his customer base. But all the connectivity, software and hardware, problems are forwarded to the server owner who has sold the reseller plan to the reseller.
Being a profitable business, the reseller organization invests a lot of money in advertising so as to attract more customers. Most of the reseller hosting firms has to use major part of their budget in advertising in order to compete with its existing competitors. Web hosting is today one of the largest online businesses as each website some how needs web hosting services.
