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Website Host Supplier

What is a website host reseller? Should you website host with one? Should you be a website host reseller? If you're here reading this article, more than likely one of these questions has crossed your mind. We will now attempt to answer each of these questions, in turn, as we explore the realm of website host resellers.

So what is a website host reseller? In short, a website host reseller is an independent marketer who resells the website host services of an existing website host company, often adding additional perks such as personalised technical website host support or budget pricing for shared website host. While some website host resellers choose to actually purchase the server or servers their customer's web sites will reside on, others may choose to simply rent the website host servers. Still others may choose not to own or rent at all, but instead to simply resell the website hosts existing plans and receive a volume discount or commissions.

Web design companies and web related software developers are two very common examples of potential website host resellers of hosting. By teaming with an established commercial website host provider, these website host companies are able to provide comprehensive, customized services to their customers and bring in additional income. Many of these smaller website host resellers may have only a handful of clients and would never be able to afford their own high speed internet connections, while other dedicated website host resellers, who have simply found it too be a cost efficient solution, may have thousands or even tens of thousands of active website host accounts.

So why would a website host want someone to resell their services? Well, the market for website host services is far too vast and too competitive for any one marketing strategy to be effective. So, by offloading marketing to independent website host resellers who can bring additional value to the hosting through their own products and services, a website host is free to focus its attention on its core business. This is good old fashioned specialization at its finest. The website host provides the hosting while the reseller handles the sales and customer support.

Of course, many website hosts also market their own services, but usually at premium prices and targeted toward larger, high-volume clients. These larger clients might be website host companies themselves, or simply high traffic sites requiring large amounts of resources. It makes sense for a website host to focus on these larger accounts, the yield is high and the turnover is very low. However, the market for small, low volume, discount website hosting has grown at an unbelievable rate in recent years. So, to capture the accounts their marketing efforts missed, such as specific niche markets and smaller sites, and keep their volume high, the larger hosting providers look to website host resellers.

Website Host Services

More than marketing separates website host resellers from website hosts though. For starters, website host resellers generally administer their accounts from afar, whereas website hosts have hands on access to the data centres where their servers reside. This may sound like an obvious advantage in favour of the website host companies, but considering the overhead involved in setting up a data centre, a website host's interest in helping customers is usually proportional to that customer's monthly monetary contribution to their rack space. After all, how much profit can a commercial website host provider really make on a £5 monthly account when they have to pay their support technicians £25 per hour, or more? Website host resellers on the other hand have more liberty to focus on the individual customer, regardless of size, because they usually have other sources of income tied into the website host services they are reselling. So again, generally speaking, website hosts focus on infrastructure and resellers focus on service.