Hello,

I am relatively new in webhosting business.

Since I do not really want to deal with server(s)'s requirements, problems, etc., I just want to resell.

Where do I start? Could anybody please help me?

Thanking you in advance. :)

Cheers

Spider,

Welcome on board.

I think your best bet would be to hang around the board for a bit and get a feel for which hosts are the "good" ones. Then, among, those, select one which has a reseller program that meets your requirements.

Reselling is a great idea for people that don't have the resources to run their own servers, so it's a perfect start for many.

Good luck!

Welcome to WHT Spider,

As Travis said just waiting around on the board is a great way to see the good and not so good companies out there. You can also hunt through the reselling forum or do a search (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php) and you will turn up a lot of posts to sift through. Once you have an idea of some good hosts, send them an email once regarding their services and ask some basic questions and maybe some advanced things. This will let you get an idea of how fast they respond to emails as well as their knowledge of their product.

Regards,

Mike

Travis and Philberop,

Thank you for the quick response. :)

Yes, I think I agree with you. I will hang around abit more. I saw "some" which have good comments on this board.

I think this place is perfect to obtain good education on webhosting business in real life not only theory in the class.

Cheers

Spider,

you'll do a lot worse than reading this forum from top to bottom. 56000+ posts means the chances are any question you have should have been covered in some form or another by now :)

The first page of threads in any area is usually only a week or so old. The deeper you delve into this place the better you'll get a feel for the longer term shifting of the industry. Today's darling, is tomorrow's wash-up etc.

Exciting stuff though. I wouldn't trade this job for all the tea in China

Greg Moore

Akashik,

Thanks, I agree with you.

I have tried to contact some of the hosts for reselling. It is interesting...one replied within less than 2 hours. Others? did not reply. :(

Maybe, they just do not know how serious I want to explore their business and be the part of their resellers That is the thing.

I am still exploring this opportunity to find a good host with great attitude, response and ofcourse reselling plans.

My next step will be exploring the "billing" method. Maybe some of you guys have good experience, please let me know just to save me some time. :)

Again, Thanks in advance.

Cheers.

spider,

well you're on your way already. Your relationship with your upstream provider will be an important one, as it will affect your own response time to your customers when they ask something you can't provide yourself. This is a two way street of course. Your own professionalism, and the speed at which you pick up the ball and run with it will help a great deal too.

Ideally you should probably have a fair amount of experience in hosting your own sites first as it'll give a better insight into what your customers are going to need from a provider.

You'll also want a very clear game plan in place too. Why are you doing it, what you hope to achieve, as well as the obvious concerns of the time involved, and the financial outlay. Most of the hosts here do 12-16 hour days, 7 days a week. We don't sleep for days on end, forget to eat, and don't remember what a weekend without work feels like :)

A lot of time and effort goes into the site production for your company as well as advertising youself to potential customers. The list goes on and on...

Greg Moore

spider,

Listen to akashik, as he has just put the last 4 months of my life in a nutshell. If I have to hear my girlfriend ask me one more time "when are you coming to bed?", I am going to go postal.

If you want a list of resellers that I would absolutly NOT go with, email me, and I will share my experiences I have had with them (don't worry guys... I don't think any of these resellers make posts here).

-Corey

Corey C,

Yes, I listen to Akashik and I appreciate his comments on this subject. Thanks Akashik. :)

And of course, I appreciate everybody's comments on this thread.

I email you Corey.

Cheers

I think reseller programs are great. That's how I started out and have experienced some great growth.

I started with OLM about 3.5 years ago and the service was good but I had about 35 accounts and moved onto a dedicated server. The server didn't have much on there and I went onto a managed hosting company who specialised in hosting hosting-companies.

12 months later, I now have 400 accounts @ $29 per month each. It's a bit of work keeping everything together and especially now that I'm growing at about 50 new accounts per month. (It's been a real curved growth going up of course).
I also have my own resellers which there's about 50 resellers all who are going to be moving and adding sites to my server.

I also find time to do full university study which I finish at the end of this year. It all comes down to setting yourself up right from the beginning with the intention that your going to grow big real fast but you don't want to grow too fast. I actually want to slow my growth rate down a bit or get more staffing.

Just remember to hang in there in the good times and bad !!

Nigel,

Thank you for your comments.

That's a great success story. Your comments encouraged me to proceed with what I have planned.

I believe, your success did not come over night or fell from the sky. Your success came from your hard work and followed by good attitude or professionalism.

Everybody knows the success is there, it is just a matter of how we approach it.

Again, thanks Nigel.

Cheers