RESELLER HOSTING

Reseller hosting is a hosting plan designed to be carved up and resold. You buy resources (storage, bandwidth, accounts) from a host and use a control panel (usually WHM on top of cPanel) to create individual customer accounts under your own brand. Agencies, freelancers and small hosting startups use it to manage many client sites under one bill, set their own prices, and present hosting as part of their service. The host handles the underlying infrastructure; you handle the customer relationship and the support layer.

How it works

A reseller plan looks like one big shared or VPS account from the host's side, but you partition it through WHM into many smaller cPanel accounts for your customers. Some resellers go further and white-label everything, so customers never see the upstream provider.

Why it matters

For an agency, reseller hosting turns hosting from a customer expense into agency revenue and reduces fragmentation across many separate provider accounts. The trade is that you become the first line of support, and you depend on the upstream host's reliability for your reputation.

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