In part 2 of 2 we are going to compare Reseller Hosting to Affiliate Marketing. For some of you the questions about Reseller Hosting vs. Affiliation has become a bit confusing lately so today we are going to clear up any misunderstanding regarding these 2 different options.If you are looking for part 1 click HERE

Reseller Hosting

Do you want to start your own Web Hosting Company? Do you make websites for a living? Do you have your own customers that might benefit from buying discounted hosting directly from you? If any of this sounds like you then you definitely should consider opening a Reseller Hosting account with ASPnix.

Reselling Hosting is an opportunity to sell high quality services provided by a bigger company. These companies have access to hardware and resources that are unrealistic for a smaller company or individual to have, such as maintaining an expensive and reliable datacenter with teams of people, or keeping everything in working order 24 hours a day. Instead we can purchase a kind of white-label service in which a bigger company provides us all of those things and we just stick to sales and advertising.

The good and the bad

Reselling Hosting is cheaply available at a company such as ASPnix but there are ups and downs to this sort of service. First, the great part is that you are opening a whole new business with very little initial investment. With a few thousand dollars any entrepreneur can get their new business started with very little or no infrastructure. Almost everything is already done for you. If you build websites for customers its nice to host them yourself and have customers who pay you for continued support. As an alternative to becoming your own hosting company, providing hosting as part of or combined with various services such as web design might be a nice way to keep your customers coming back to you over and over. The best customer is always the one you already have.

The bad news is that although you will receive tech support from your hosting provider when you call with an issue or question, that same tech support can't really be extended to your customers. Consider what would happen every time a customer called your web host for help. Imagine when they eventually realize that they can just buy the same hosting from the same company that you buy it from. You literally just gave your customer the phone number of your direct competitor and said “I can't help you but my competition can”. Because of this YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE YOUR OWN TECHNICAL SUPPORT. This is absolutely critical to keeping a good business like this running. There are various options available such as signing up with a third party technical support agency or hiring your own tech support people but whatever you do, don't get yourself into a situation where every time a customer calls to ask a question you are sending them to your competition.

If Reseller Hosting sounds right for you click HERE for ASPnix Reseller Hosting.