Hosting websites has become a very popular thing for individual people wanting to make a little extra cash. Purchasing reseller hosting plans are relatively cheap and can bring in some nice profits if you know what your doing. With that in mind it’s good to evaluate the positives and negatives of being a reseller host. Here I will be covering a series of basic things you should know before taking the plunge.

The first thing you should know about hosting is that many businesses in fact rely on the power of the web to keep their businesses afloat as well as bring value to a storefront business therefore uptime and care of your customers must be a priority. Never think that just because you provide the hosting for a customer that you will not hear from them again. Because you will at some point!

Its important in mind with the previous statement that email issues are the most common thing that you may get a customer complaining about from the moment they have difficulty with it. Are you good at troubleshooting email issues? There are many possibilities when it comes to email and this will undoubtedly give you the most headaches of all.

You will want most importantly however a company that provides the most reliable hosting. In my experience I have found BLUEHOST to be great. You can visit them by clicking HERE. If you don’t have a host yourself that has a reasonable rate and great tech support you may find yourself quickly in a bind. Also, I would recommend testing how your host is before actually hosting others under your reseller plan.

If you begin to start hosting multiple sites you will need to make sure that none of the people you are hosting abuse the system either by using the plan you have created for them to spam others or put content on any of their sites that is questionable or illegal otherwise you may find your reseller account terminated leaving you in a bad situation with all the other sites under your account which also have lost their websites. Thus it is extremely important that you monitor what people are using their accounts for under you.

Lastly a tip to that can help you with your reseller hosting plan. Charging monthly can get your customers accustomed to adding this bill in their monthly payments and will help you keep track of them. While a yearly payment can be nice a customer can forget that they have hosting if they never bother to look at or update their site and can be difficult at times to contact them or motivate them to purchase another year of hosting.