Hi all,

I`m new to reseller hosting.

Just a question because many here who will likely know a good answer.

What is the best way to offer respectable packages when overselling has been disabled by the webhosting company? By respectable I mean a usable or sellable amount of diskspace and traffic.

For example a reseller package offers: 2gb space and 40gb traffic. With overselling disabled that`s not a lot to offer for sale on a website.

What options do I have to make them attractive enough, even offer large(ish) packages and getting around the overselling disabled limitation?

I guess some kind of marketing/sales ploy?

Hope I made some sense there!!!

My overselling is disabled also... but i have it configured that way so i have some cheap starting plans and some huge plans that if somebody orders them it pays out for my reseller account. and when that happens I upgrade to a bigger package....

You could put an emphasis on other parts of your hosting plans such as unique support options you may offer or....you could just switch to a host that has overselling enabled?

I agree with what sharwood said. You'll have to find another way to get around the limitations of not being able to oversell and compete with larger hosts. Come up with a niche whether it be focusing on certain support aspects or maybe a unique product offering.

If you are relying on "overselling" as a business strategy, then why are you reselling for a company that does not allow overselling?

Your solution is to either resell for a different provider that does allow overselling, or find a different marketing/business strategy.

What mrzippy said ^^ :)

It would be great not to allow overselling, from a server stability/management point of view. I did try this once, but it went down like a lead balloon. Still got the scars. :D However, resellers really do need overselling enabled, if they're going to make a go of their hosting business.

It's either overselling enabled with moderate disk space and data allocations, or overselling not enabled with huge disk space and data allocations. Each of those even out in the long run.

All depends on your business model.

If your idea is to compete on the open market with all the other host out here then yeah you need overselling enabled. And good luck to you cause you are going to need it.

If you are going to compete in a local market or do specialized hosting where you design and take care of the web sites for your customers then overselling is not needed as long as their sites are up and stable they normally do not care if they have 2 gigs of space and 200 gazillion bits of transfer, only.

The host you are with now sounds like they are aiming to sell to resellers that are in the later group.

So the answer really is what market are you aiming for if the first find a host that allows you to oversell or ask your current host if they will allow it, if the later stick with what you have you will probably find more stability.

Offering free paid for addons is another way of getting business; ClientExec or RVSkins etc etc.

We had overselling allowed for one of my resellers on my previous server. That reseller created about 1000 accounts within a 2 months of time and which took lots of my server resource and as he had lots of customers they had all diff types of issues basic understaing of hosting etc etc and so wehad to pay lots more time to suport these customers as well. We gave one seprate server to this reseller and then we are more stable no issues almost 0 downtime from last 6 months.

You an enjoy overselling , but if you get one customer like this one it will create lots of problems for you.