Hosting reselling newbie question

[SimpleDomaining]

hello. i was buying domains and hostings for companies to develop their sites for last couple years. now it is collected lots of them, who have to renew their annual hosting plans. I never been in hosting reselling business, but i was thinking why i should not buy hosting wholesale and divide it beetwin those companies. can somebody please tell me how to become hosting reseller, what do i need to do, do i need to fill some kind of paperwork with state or city, do i need some shopping cart gateway, or enything else, and where is a best place to buy reseller hosting, etc? basically, what do i need to know to start reselling. that would be very helpfull.
thank you.

 

[Camron]

Reseller hosting is quite easy to setup, no need to fill out papers or anything. Take a look around the web host offers section here, you will see some nice offers

Thanks,
Camron

 

[ZannuZZi]

I think that you don't have to own special knowledge to start your hosting business with reseller package. You have to be good promoter to get more new customers.

 

[antic]

I don't think you have to have much knowledge in it. You just have to be good at hosting generally. Much depends on your budget and choosing the right hosting company.

 

[2cworth]

If you're running this as a business, check with your CPA or financial advisor (or a lawyer) whether your state requires you to register the business; could be a corporation, or even a "doing business as". Even if not required, if you expect to earn substantial amount from this, it's worthwhile registering the business to avail of tax breaks for expenses etc.

That's from a business perspective. From a technical perspective, you don't need any of that - signing up for a reseller account is like signing up for normal hosting.

You will need to have either a merchant account or paypal integration if you expect to do transactions / payment online; if your clients are local and pay you through bank transfers / cash / other means, you won't need to set up these.

Quite a number of people offer web design / integration services for setting up a hosting website, and quite cheap too if you use a standard template. Try the web development sub forum here at NP for offers.

Buying reseller hosting - depending on the space and transfer / bandwidth required, you might go with a simple reseller account, or a VPS / dedicated server. You say "collected lots of them" - lots could still be small sites, or huge ones.

As a rough indicator - if your usage for all sites together is less than 100 GB per month, you can make do with a regular reseller account; Between 100 - 500, depends, you may find a VPS better; above that, you're better off with a dedicated server. Note that this is a very rough estimate - you may have specific sites that use a lot of CPU time or other resources, forcing you to consider a different hosting option.

Resellerzoom has some good reseller offers, and I've found their support responsive. Plenty of other offers to be found on webhostingtalk forums.

Hope this helps.

 

[loran76]

2cworth, as far as I understand you are the reseller of Resellerzoom. How long do you use their service? Do they give in-house support?
In my opinion it's always problematic to choose the right reseller hosting. I had some experience with thewhir.com and ahosting.biz. I had to leave the first one because their support worked badly and with ahosting I was for a long while but I left them because of my personal problems. But those guys work very well and give in-house support. I was happy with them but ...

 

[MutoGen]

Yep. That's right indoors support is the main think that you have to remember buying reseller package. I have a wish: I want resell reseller hosting. My current hoster doesn't provide it. Does anybody know such hosting provider?