Web Host - Becoming a Reseller
A Web Hosting Article Contributed by Raj Rao
What is a Web Host?
Web Host is a service provider for web hosting services. A Web Host usually has a large farm of Servers and a high bandwidth Internet connection for serving web content and e-commerce to visitors of the websites hosted on their servers.
Web Hosting is an online business that can be managed by anybody with some technical knowledge of the Internet. There are several tools available for managing the Web Hosting business using just an Internet Browser. This makes it an excellent opportunity for those who wish to resell services of a Web Host without investing in expensive servers and Internet bandwidth.
You can resell the services of a Web Host to your existing customers, if you have any online business or create a new brand on the Internet by promoting and advertising your services. This is a quick and easy way to enter the Internet business.
Web Hosting is a starting point for anybody seeking to do business on the Internet. Thus you have the opportunity to catch them early and grow with the client by providing them value added services beyond web hosting.
Web Host - Becoming a Reseller
There are several ways to become a reseller of Web Hosting services. Firstly, you can be an Agent Partner with a Web Host. In this arrangement, you find the customers and transfer them to your Web Host. You get a commission out of the sales from these customers, as long as they continue to be associated with the Web Host. In this arrangement, you do not own the customer.
Second option is to create a Private Label web hosting service for yourself. In this arrangement, the customers are made to believe that you are the real service provider whereas you only resell the services of an already established web host.
Such an arrangement requires investment in advertising and promotion of your own brand and also provide the first level of customer service. The advantage is that you own your customers and thus can scale them up with value added services. You are also free to replace your web host, without disturbing your customer's business.
Web Host - Tips for Survival
Web Hosting is a very competitive business because of low entry barriers and large number of web hosting companies having excess capacity. In order to survive the Web Hosting business you need to do the following:
Have a business arrangement with a few good web designers so that you can guide your customers to them and earn value added income from designing services. Offering Domain Name Registration is also a necessity for web hosting service providers.
When you sign up with a Web Host, make inquiries about their customers experience with the Web Host and also see that you are in a position to move up to a private label web hosting provider after you have achieved some level of volume, without losing your customers.
Always be on the look out for new web technologies that become available and continuously offer these to your customers. This is the sure way to up sell your services to your existing customers and also attract additional clients.
