Should I Deal with a Middle Man? Reseller Hosting

The system works by the web hosting company splitting its hard drive and bandwidth and reselling the capacity to other customers. In some arrangements, you, as the reseller, act as an agent for the web hosting company. In other cases you as the reseller appear to be a web hosting company in your own right.

The advantage in setting up a reselling hosting service rather than running your own server and starting your own web hosting business is that you instantly have the support and resources of a firm that is experienced and established. You don't have the capital outlay necessary to buy servers and bandwidth and to operate them in a secure and controlled environment. Rather than start from the ground up, you benefit from selling and possibly managing a portion of an already successful company.

If you act as the web hosting company's agent you have links and advertisements on your sites that take potential customers directly to the web hosting company's site. The customer buys a hosting service from the provider and you get a percentage.

Earn Free Hosting

Its referral program is for existing iPower customers. If you refer three clients for a web hosting package you get your web hosting free for a year. Its affiliate program is set up for you to drive traffic to their site, with you receiving $100 for every new customer who signs up through a link or ad on one of your sites.

Its third cheap reseller hosting program is called the power reseller program and offers recurring revenue by you offering website hosting to your clients, friends and family members.

StartLogic at www.startlogic.com is rated number two and offers similar packages. Its affiliate program offers $100 for every sale and its referral program gives you free web hosting for a year if you refer three new clients. Its third program is a private label reseller program, where it appears you are the web hosting company.

Lunar Pages at www.lunarpages.com is the third-ranked provider and it offers an affiliate program that pays $65 per referral.

Host Gator at www.hostgator.com has a reseller hosting program that allows you to keep the money you collect. Like the others, it is anonymous, meaning that your customers don't know they are buying from another host company unless you tell them.