In this tight economy many people are looking for a way to make extra money. The traditional way of trying to add an extra job or overtime hours are just not available or not enough. In this situation one has to think out of the box. There are new outlets to do this on the internet. One of these you can choose is reseller hosting.
In order to profit from reseller hosting, you need to purchase hard drive space and bandwidth from a host website. There are many host websites on the internet that will sell you this hard drive space and bandwidth. They usually are entities like web design firms that offer web hosting reselling as a side service to make their own money. You can take advantage of this. They will take care of issues of maintaining the network infrastructure and hardware.
As a reseller host you offer this hard drive space for a profit. Once you have set up your site you can start selling and make some profit in your sleep. This is unlike a traditional job. The host website is set up usually with resources and support to help you make money. When you make money they make money so it is in their best interest to help you. This is why it is important to do research and choose the site you purchase from carefully.
You should look for web hosting site to purchase from that offers certain amenities to you and your customers. One of these is cPanel. cPanel allows the ability to work with and change your website easier on your own. You do not have to have a great amount of technical expertise to run this software.
You might also make sure that the disk space that you are offered offers VPS hosting. Being a VPS hosting site will allow you to offer dedicated disk space to yourself and your clients. Many sites with shared hosting find themselves quickly running out of room. They tell their clients they need more room. In shared hosting you are sharing resources, in virtual private servers your space is your own.
One service you might try to offer on you own or on the sites you sell is PHPmotion hosting. PHPmotion hosting allows you to set up a web site with audio and video files. This would be similar to YouTube. People like to see uploaded videos of the craziest things and you can take advantage of that. Many people will click on a crazy video of things like people having accidents or song parodies.
You will need to invest some in advertising that you offer web hosting. Make sure you share the key features you have to offer. People always need web hosting so you may want to consider being a reseller.