Web hosting can be an exciting business start up for aspiring
entrepreneurs. All you have to do to set up your business is
become a hosting reseller, i.e., provide hosting facilities to
website owners. Here as a business owner, you are buying space
from a big hosting company, and redistributing the hosting space
to other website owners.
Resellers are nothing but entrepreneurs acting as middlemen,
offering you hosting services by leasing time and space from
another Web host's server rather than owning their own. Most of
the times, the quality of services offered by resellers are so
good that consumers do not even have the idea that they are
dealing with resellers who do not have servers of their own.
Resellers, since they can pick and choose their servers, are
basically in a position to provide the customers with the best
of services.
Reseller hosting business can be quite a profit making venture
once you understand the figures and profit margins involved. Let
us go through them. One can buy around 1000 MB space from a
major web host at a cost of $25 per month. This 1000 MB space
that you now own can in turn be redistributed to site owners who
need space for uploading their site. Here you can give about 25
MB space for around $5 per month. Which means your monthly
income comes to around $200 when you sell 40 hosting packages.
Want more. some hosts allow you to oversell the space and do not
charge you extra unless the actual usage of your account exceeds
1000MB. It is seen that a typical user uses less than half of
the allotted web space. which means you can double or even
triple sell your quota and make unlimited wealth.
And mind well, this income is residual income. It will keep
coming to you month after month, year after year. You do the
work once. and get paid for it over and over. All you are doing
is buying space from a major web hosting company and becoming a
reseller host. Your efforts are focused towards selling hosting
space and the rest is handled by your web host. Some of them
even handle customer service to your customers for a nominal
fee. which makes it even easier for you.
If this is not enough. you can earn additional residual incomes
by adding recruiting more resellers through you. By doing this
you will earn regular commissions on their monthly sales. isn't
this smart business. The profit margins in the business of
reseller hosting is quite good and you can start on this
exciting business venture even if you do not have the required
expertise and access to funds for setting up the required
infrastructure. Strange as it might sound, there are also times
where a reseller can also be more scalable than a typical
hosting firm. A true Web host is limited by its hardware; if a
client suddenly requires an upgrade the host is not prepared
for, the only way the host will be able to satisfy the customer
is by upgrading its hardware - expensive and time consuming for
both sides. The reseller host, however, can simply choose to
locate with a different Web host that will better suit the
customer's needs.
Happy Wealth Creation!!!
(About Author)
Ninad Gupte is the Founder, CEO of
www.linuxresellerhosting.com. He has trained as an Electronics
Engineer from Mumbai University, and has a Diploma in Advanced
Computing from CDAC. He has served as the Director ¬Technologies
in Webmoney India Pvt. Ltd. He has executed several turnkey B2B
Web application projects like House layouts, Maharashtra State
Electricity Board and portals & sites like McDonalds India, Air
France and RPG Raychem. To take his dreams forward of forming a
technology oriented diversified company, Interpole Solutions was
formed in March 2001. The company was setup with a strong base
of skills and a deep understanding of technologies mastered by
Ninad.
He can be contacted at ninad@linuxresellerhosting.com or at
91-22-2436 4111 and
91-22-2436 4112.
