What is the Best – Shared Hosting Or Reseller Hosting?
Although shared hosting and reseller hosting have only one purpose and that is to host a website, there are some differences. Shared hosting means buying webspace from hosting providers and using it only for personal websites. But reseller hosting means that you can buy a large amount of space and you can resell it for some extra profit. These two types of hosting have many matches and many web hosting companies offer both systems but there are always some differences. By sharing you can only share server resources but by reselling you will be able to resell server resources. This is the main difference between shared web hosting and reseller web hosting.
With reseller hosting, you can create web hosting accounts and with these, you will be able to share server resources with your clients. But the host also has master control of the server and they update and maintain the server software. The reseller host also gets support from the master host, and in case of any problem, the reseller can contact the host at any time, which is a feature that the shared host doesn’t get. If you have a small personal business or if you want a personal website, then shared hosting is perfect for you. But if you want multiple websites with cheaper rates then reseller hosting is perfect for you and you will also get some profit from that.
If you have a web hosting reseller, this will be the first step in the web hosting business and you can have private clients, where you can create, suspend or terminate any account if you want. You don’t have to worry about the server, just worry about your websites and the clients of your site. If you have many websites, with your reseller account to save money, you can also create some accounts to resell and get some extra profit. There are many web hosting companies that give reseller hosting facilities with a bonus of web space and bandwidth as cheap as $20 to $100 per month.
But many customers do not want to buy a web hosting account from you because you are just a broker and if there is any problem with the server or client account that you cannot solve then you should contact the web host which will be a long process. But that wouldn’t be a big deal if you had decent clients. If you have sufficient knowledge of the server and control panel and have administrator rights, you can solve the problem yourself. But you do not have admin rights to which you have a connection with the host.