Can You Make Money Selling Web Hosting?
Reseller hosting has become quite popular in the web hosting market. This is primarily because individuals can become web hosts (sell hosting) without having to buy all equiptment and infrastructure to get started with such a business.
Becoming a web hosting reseller for a hosting company has become very profitable for a lot of people looking to earn money online. Being able to earn a monthly income selling a service every webmaster needs is a hard business model to ignore, especially when the startup costs are low.
Reseller hosting allows you to sell another web hosts services as your own under your brand. Basically they offer you a discount rate on their web hosting service and you turn around and sell it at any price you want. Reseller hosting can start for as little as $20 per month depending on the features your looking for. Usually their are no setup fees or large start up cost either which can make it extremely affordable to get started.
The best part is that you don’t have to have the technical knowledge or tech background to be successful, most of the primary hosts handle all this for you. You can focus your efforts on building your business. Here are a few methods that help you get started.
#1 – Create And Sell Websites On Ebay
This is a proven method for creating clients for your web hosting business. You create a turnkey website business and list it for sale on Ebay. If you look for websites currently for sale on Ebay you will notice thousands of website being sold for very little money. Where they make their money is on the hosting package that may be required if you purchase the website. Just think if you sell 10 websites a week and charge $10 to host, you are adding $1000 a week to your income. This has been a proven method and is legal as long as you disclose the hosting upfront.
#2 – Become A Dedicated Hosting Service Just For Blogs
Blogging has become extremely popular over the past few years. There are an estimated 40,000 new blogs started every day. Sure, most of them are hosted for free, but there are a lot of blogs and bloggers who want the control of having a domain name and their own web hosting for their blogs.
The best part is that blogs take up very little disk space and transfer (bandwidth) allowance. You can host a lot of blogs with very little resources and charge a good price for your services.
Another great thing is that most successful bloggers have more then one blog. This is great because blogs take very little technical assistance on your part which means you can grow your business quicker and have more paying customers without the need for costly and time sapping technical support.
These are a few of the most popular ways to make money with reseller hosting. The key is to find a quality reseller hosting package so you can get started earning profits in the hosting business.