Reselling affordable web hosting plans has become a very lucrative business. Making returns of up to ten times your investment is realistic, but in order for this to happen, a lot of work needs to be put in.

When you resell an affordable web hosting plan, you essentially split up the bandwidth and disk space available to you, and sell it on to other customers. As you have probably guessed, the idea is to get more from your customers than you are paying for your affordable web hosting plan. Of course, this whole business idea allows you to provide very high-grade web hosting services without having to know the technical ins and outs of server hardware and software.

Before you go and rent a dedicated server, however, you should make yourself aware of something called a reseller control panel. Companies that offer dedicated web hosting plans for reselling provide you with this online software to administrate all the different parts of your server. You can manage user accounts for your customers, share out disk space for different users, and perform other really useful tasks.

Affordable web hosting plan reselling is pretty cut-throat, and so you need to make sure that you have the very best in terms of a dedicated server. Try to avoid buying a virtual server, as these only appear to be dedicated – many virtual servers are run on a single hardware server, and software is used to make them look like dedicated servers. Virtual servers are often cheaper, but less reliable, slower, and ultimately not worth it.

As with many things, getting as many customers as possible on board will bring you the most money, so offering hundreds of small accounts is a good idea. Note that having this many customers requires a lot of customer care (a customer is not just for Christmas…), and failure to pay attention to individual clients’ needs can result in you getting a bad reputation.

Also, make sure that your affordable web hosting plan supports multiple domain names, so that your customers can assign their own domains to their web space.

Finally, ensure that your dedicated web hosting plan offers very good technical support, whenever you need it. This helps you to sort out any problems with the servers on their end that may be affecting your clients.