Linux Reseller Hosting

What is Reseller Hosting?

Reseller hosting offers the same website hosting features as your typical shared hosting package - login access to an account that can be fully administered through cPanel for all of your email, database, domain name, content management, web design, and file transfer needs.

The primary difference is that rather than managing a single account, you now have the ability to create and manage multiple accounts, each one being managed through its own separate cPanel account.

It is like starting your own web hosting company. We give you the ability to fully create and be responsible for the management of other accounts.

White Labeling

As a reseller, you are the hosting company. You can create your own logo and your own company name, and market your hosting services to other prospective customers. When customers sign up, they are signing up as your customers, even though the underlying server infrastructure still belongs to Webhost.Berlin. This practice is what is known as white labeling, since the label of the company is “white” and you can market it however you see fit. You can create as many accounts as you would like.

Billing

Customers who sign up through you will pay you for the services through your own billing portal, called WHMCS, which we will provide you. You pay Webhost.Berlin a wholesale rate for each reseller account, and then you can charge your customers however much you would like, and keep the net profits.

A reseller hosting account is a great way to earn passive income. All you have to do is market your own brand, bill as well as support your customers. It is a fully turnkey system that will allow you to Starterrally hit the ground running and start making money right away. You do not have to build any systems or put any processes in place from scratch like you would have to do if you were starting your hosting business from the ground up.

Using a Reseller Hosting Account For Your Own Needs

Another popular use for reseller accounts is to keep the management of each of your domains separate, using their own cPanel systems for each one. If you have different teams managing different websites, and you have a need to restrict access to each so that each team can only manage their own website through cPanel, then a reseller hosting account can also work in your favor, with this regard.

Managing multiple accounts in bulk is more cost-effective through reseller hosting than by paying for several individual shared hosting plans.

Linux Reseller Hosting

There are a number of advantages to choosing a Linux reseller hosting package.Linux offers a user-interface that is entirely command-line based. Linux offers many advantages in terms of scripting, such as the ability to write programs and scripts in Perl, PHP, and Shell. You have the ability to manage automation jobs, create CGI scripts and manage your files.

The Linux environment is generally more forgiving and stable when it comes to configuration changes or configuration mishaps. There is no “blue screen of death” and there is never a need to reboot a Linux machine whenever a configuration update is made, in order for it to take effect.

Linux is a robust platform for a multi-platform, multi-process environment, since it is not bound to a graphical user interface that the user must interact with. Additionally, Linux offers native support for the most popular web applications such as Wordpress and MySQL.

Unless you specifically need support for ASP or .Net programming, or you specifically need to host a Microsoft Access or a Microsoft SQL Server database, then Linux Reseller Hosting is the perfect choice. Otherwise you will want to select a Plesk Reseller hosting package.

Sample Business Plan For Your Reseller Linux Hosting Business

Here is a sample business plan that you can follow, to start running a profitable reseller linux hosting business from day one:

Step #1: You brand yourself as Company XYZ, with your own logo, website and domain name.

Step #2: You sign up for a reseller package for 60 GB of disk space and 600 GB of bandwidth, at a cost of $15 per month. You decide to subdivide your total allocation into 10 equal sub-accounts. Each account will be allotted 6GB of disk space, and will be entitled to 60GB of bandwidth. Let’s say that you charge each customer $10 per month.

How much will your total earnings be, per month? Let’s do the math:

10 customers paying you $10 per month is $100 per month in gross revenue. You are paying this web host $15 per month for the entire allotment. $100 minus $15 is $85. You are earning $85 per month net profit for every 10 customers, or $8.50 per customer, per month.

A Viable Passive Income Business Model

As you can see, becoming a web hosting reseller can provide to be quite a lucrative business model. It is largely hands-off, once you do the initial setup of your business. You can focus on all of the marketing, under your own brand-name, while Webhost.Berlin takes care of the rest.

And this business model is quite scalable as well. The more customers you retain, the more passive income revenue you will be able to generate every single month.