Successful Resellers?

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Posted by verbotten, 01-29-2013, 10:40 AM
I had looked over several reselling options on different hosts and something didn't click. When access to myriad "unlimited" web hosting services is just one google search away how do the people actually make money on such low resources offered as reseller? I don't mean reseller = group that buys or rents server racks from DC, I mean reseller who signs up on reseller account paying 45$/mo for 20GB disk and 200GB transfer. and hes supposed to make money off this. Every hosting company competes with their own reselling package with their shared hosting offer which can be 50x more then what anyone could offer on their reseller program. I just don't get it.
Posted by Matt R, 01-29-2013, 10:53 AM
Some companies allow "overselling" on reseller packages, which can allow you to potentially make money. I think the packages are more for people who prefer separate cPanel accounts on a per-domain basis (which should be done in practice for security purposes, if not anything else). It can also be used by design firms who want to offer hosting as a service to their clients. It has it's purpose, but I think the "unlimited" market has really ruined peoples ability to resell effectively.
Posted by ScottSwezey, 01-29-2013, 10:53 AM
I think it really boils down to your business plan and target market. If your idea is to compete in the sea of cheap and/or unlimited providers, you likely won't find any traction without a huge operating and marketing budget. If you have a unique value proposition, the statistics like storage and bandwidth start to matter a lot less.
Posted by verbotten, 01-29-2013, 11:03 AM
Actually this isnt a bad idea, I've never thought of this before. So on resleller account each cpanel gets its own server limits and thus load doesn't accumulate towards your cpu limits? -vs- if you host multi domain on single cpanel account all contribute to one CPU limit (is this correct?)
Posted by ubservers, 01-29-2013, 11:05 AM
IMO it ruined the entire shared hosting market. All those unlimited brands and those fake affiliate review sites are a true annoyance.
Posted by verbotten, 01-29-2013, 11:42 AM
Yes I've seen few of those. Remember lunar pages was always on first place on some host revieweerr site, turns out they ewere the ones hosting and running it.