The three main types of cloud reseller hosting customers are small hosting businesses, digital agencies or web developers, and owners of multiple websites who need separate hosting accounts, centralized management, and scalable resources. Cloud reseller hosting allows users to create and manage multiple independent hosting accounts under one reseller plan while maintaining better organization, security, and flexibility.

For agencies and developers, reseller hosting simplifies client website management through separate cPanel accounts, backups, SSL certificates, and isolated environments. For entrepreneurs, it can also serve as the foundation for starting a small web hosting business with white-label branding and custom hosting packages. In this guide, we’ll explain who benefits most from cloud reseller hosting, how it works, and when reseller hosting makes more sense than shared hosting or VPS hosting.

Cloud Reseller Hosting for a Small Web Hosting Venture

You plan to start your web hosting business, and your initial goal is to provide websites and general support to 100 startups. All of them would rely on using a widely popular script, such as WordPress. They will also need space to store and access operation-related files and the ability to create FTP and Email accounts for their staff or customers. 

Regular Cloud-based Shared Hosting plans can also cover these requirements. However, your customers would need to request support from you whenever they need to take advantage of any of these features because they will not own the web hosting account.  Of course, the exact requests you get would depend on the access level you have decided to provide them with. In the general case, where you will host all their websites under one web hosting account, granting a customer access to the same would expose the others. 

To avoid this cumbersome endeavor, you would be better off creating separate web hosting plans for each customer.  But, in that case, the cost will add up. 

All Managed Cloud Reseller Hosting plans powered by HostArmada allow you to create multiple hosting plans and multiple cPanel-powered web hosting accounts. That is achieved thanks to the Web Host Manager (WHM) service we provide. So, naturally, you will be able to create and manage all the cPanel Web Hosting Accounts you will need. In addition, a separate cPanel account gives full access to edit DNS records for any domain tied to the account, as well as access to any cPanel feature your customers might need. 

But all that is meaningless if your clients do not recognize the web hosting service as your product. To showcase your branding across every Web Hosting Account, we provide the White-Label service, which lets you easily add your logo and customizations directly to each cPanel account. That feature makes it easy for you to promote your brand and make it look more professional in your customers’ eyes. 

As a Small Web Hosting Business owner, you will likely want to minimize your expenses. One thing our service also takes care of is the Billing Software you need to manage and bill your customers and their web hosting accounts. WHMCS stands for Web Host Manager Complete Solution and is the most popular software for creating a fully-fledged web hosting business. We provide that for free on our bigger Cloud Reseller Hosting plans, and should you need it, we will gladly install and configure it for you. 

Finally, to show you that we know what your clients’ websites need, we included the LiteSpeed Enterprise web server. It is specifically designed to serve static and dynamic content significantly faster than Apache and even than NGINX.

Cloud Reseller Hosting for Digital Agencies and Web Developers

As a Digital Agency or a Web Developer, your focus is probably on the job you are hired for. Whether for design, functionality, or marketing of your client’s website, your customers often approach you with a question about which web hosting provider to choose. Letting your customers choose a web hosting provider is one side of the coin, putting at risk not only your customers’ websites but also all your work.

The other side is that if you assure your customer you can take care of that aspect, then, with a Cloud Reseller Hosting plan, you can bring all your customers under the same roof. That will ensure their websites are all on equal terms, with the same optimized, fast, and secure service. The best part is that you can decide how much to charge them.

Of course, the Cloud Reseller Hosting service includes far more features than just web hosting. Here are some of the main features you can access and use.

Backups

Backups are a very important emergency data security measure that saves the day when something goes very wrong with a customer’s website. When all other options are exhausted, you can simply restore a website backup without affecting your other clients, and things will be back to normal at a moment’s notice.

Security – Free Malware Scanning and Malware Removal

All Reseller Web Hosting plans that we offer come with an integrated, AI-based, all-in-one cutting-edge security solution. It not only takes care of security for your customers’ websites but also proactively scans and removes any present malware infections.

Free SSL for All Websites

Every domain and subdomain is covered by a domain-validated SSL certificate for free with our Cloud Reseller Hosting service. The certificates are issued by the security leader, Sectigo, and thus cover the necessary level of data encryption required by all modern browsers. 

Multiple PHP Versions, Git, WP-CLI, SSH, and Many More

The development tools we have included match the needs of nearly every web application developer. Multiple PHP versions and options to choose which PHP modules will be activated are fully supported on all Reseller Hosting plans. You can even set the most important PHP variables on a per-web-hosting-account basis, in case you need to customize things further for some websites.

Full SSH access also enhances your experience by providing access to tools such as git (for version control) and WP-CLI (for easy WordPress management), among others. 

Web Applications and One-Click auto-installer

All your customers will also benefit from the included-for-free Softaculous auto-installer. It allows the installation of hundreds of open-source and Paid scripts such as WordPress, Magento, Drupal, and many more. 

Softaculous also includes the free management interface for the very popular WordPress CMS platform. It allows you to create users, manage plugins and themes, and edit general website settings without entering the admin panel of WordPress.

If you feel like the above situation rings a bell, all of the mentioned features and more are available with the Cloud Reseller Hosting plans.

Cloud Reseller Hosting for Owners of Multiple Websites

Do you happen to own multiple small businesses? Each has its respective website, and each of those sites is hosted on a separate Shared Hosting package. If that sounds familiar, you should probably switch to our Cloud Reseller Web hosting plans, mainly because your annual costs for maintaining separate Web Hosting services for all websites will drop significantly.

The cost of having separate Shared Hosting packages for, say, 20 websites is considerably higher than using only one Cloud Reseller Web hosting plan and deploying all websites on isolated web hosting accounts within that plan.

Furthermore, the move to a Reseller Hosting plan would also grant you access to the Web Host Manager (WHM), which is the name of the management control panel for all of your web hosting accounts. WHM eliminates the need to enter separate login credentials because it allows you to manage all separate cPanel Web Hosting accounts from one place. 

Each separate cPanel account would also come with separate login credentials in case you need to grant access to a single website to say a developer or a designer. This would allow the selected person to make changes to the website without having any control over the other websites located on the same Reseller Hosting plan.

If you are coming from another hosting provider, you should take comfort in knowing that we will take care of the website transfers professionally and securely, while ensuring no data loss and guaranteeing as little downtime as possible. This service is provided completely free of charge and will be carried out as fast as humanly possible by our 24/7 technical support team available via phone, chat, or an efficient ticketing system.

Final Thoughts

Following the latest trends and making sure you use the most hyped-up technologies is not always the best course of action for your company. Sometimes, small savings here and there can be the reason for more freely usable funds. Those funds you can invest in marketing or business development, and that often brings new customers that raise your brand recognition score immensely.

Not only will you save funds compared to a VPS or Dedicated Server, but you will also host your websites on a service full of potentially resellable features!

Your websites will be protected, they will make the most of fast loading speeds, and you will have professional technical advice and assistance available 24/7/365. In essence, we have developed the go-to plan that guarantees to help you elevate your web hosting game to the next level!

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