Seeking: Tech-savvy, organised individuals with a desire to earn extra income while being your own boss. Must be responsible and knowledgeable.
Does this sound like you? If yes, then Digital Pacific has a great opportunity that can help you achieve your money goals. It’s called reseller web hosting, and it basically gives you the ability to start your own web hosting business, but with the benefit of having someone else actually provide and manage the hardware itself that would normally cost a start-up thousands of dollars to do. Now, with “total control” features provided with our WHM (WebHost Manager) and cPanel packages, starting a reseller web hosting business has never been easier!
The Business
As a web hosting reseller, you first choose a reseller package. You simply pay a set fee for a certain amount of space on our servers that you are then able to allocate, package and price for your own customers. You manage the selling and support side of the business while Digital Pacific remains silent in the background simply watching over the hardware. If done correctly, your customers will never know that we are in the background as everything will work under your business name. We will never phone your customers as we believe it may harm the integrity of your business.
The Investment
In terms of a business start-up, investment is definitely minimal. We have four packages starting for as little as $45 a month that help get you off your feet and making some extra money. Remember, there is no overhead on this program since we provide and manage the hardware, including server upgrades, behind the scenes.
The Gains
Besides being your own boss, you can choose how much profit you will make from this job. For example, if you choose the Reseller BASIC plan for $75 per month, you will receive 20Gb of disk space, 100Gb of bandwidth and the ability to host 40 different domains. At this point, you could potentially package this into 40 different accounts, each with 500mb of disk space and 2.5Gb monthly bandwidth, and sell it for $10 each. If all 40 accounts are sold, that would bring in $400 a month for a profit of $325. That is a decent amount of extra income right there.
Now imagine if you can somehow incorporate this into a current business. Web designers and developers are definitely in the market for being successful resellers since they are able to offer the hosting as an extra service to their clients. Be creative and see how you can make this program work for you.
The Benefits of cPanel & WHM
We like to call the combination of cPanel and WHM our “total control” package. The features provided by these two systems make a reseller web hosting program with Digital Pacific that much better and easier.
Cpanel is a control panel loved by many around the world. We recently started offering this option to our customers because of the high demand for the product, so we know this can be a huge benefit to your business as well. Your customers are given the ability to manage their account through cPanel, where it will also display your business logo. Included with this configuration is the amazing add-on of Fantastico, which allows users to install popular open source applications at the touch of a button.
WHM, or WebHost Manager, is your admin panel that allows you to manage all of your accounts and their allocated space. It is also where you upload your logo so that it displays to your customers in their control panel.
Together, cPanel and WHM give you and your customers total control, and that is a win-win situation for all involved!
So, like we always say, this opportunity isn’t for everyone, but it’s a good one for those with a bit of knowledge looking to create an extra source of monthly income. Feel free to contact us with any additional questions you may have about this opportunity!
For more information see our reseller web hosting page. You may also be interested in our affiliate program, another great partner program offered by Digital Pacific.
Shared web hosting is the most common type of web hosting, and generally the cheapest. The reason for this is that many people will use space on the same server (a computer that is accessible by the Internet) and spread the costs around. Think of it as one computer that has multiple folders on it, each one for each account that has been purchased. The folders have a maximum amount of space that can be used depending on the web hosting plan. It is also wise to note that all users on that server will be using that computer’s resources. Digital Pacific carefully monitors servers to make sure that the computers resources are shared equally for reliability and maximum uptime.
Virtual Private Server hosting, or VPS, is the next step up on the web hosting scale. This option is a bit more expensive, but the flexibility and control gained more than make up for it. The idea here is that multiple accounts are placed on one server, but the server is partitioned (physically or through special software) in a way that each account acts like its own computer. What this means is each section runs without affecting the others, even to the point where the individual partition can be rebooted while the others continue to run. This concept is fantastic because it allows more serious customers, such as larger businesses, to have dedicated-like hosting, yet it cuts back on costs since, essentially, multiple users share the expense.
Dedicated server hosting gives the user full control over the server, therefore it is the most flexible and personal option out there. Full control over the server means that no other accounts are hosted on it, and you are able to reboot and install whenever and whatever you desire. However, this option definitely requires server knowledge. Even though we look after the hardware in our data centre, the customer is the one to control what happens on the server including the handling of software. We generally refer to this type of dedicated hosting as unmanaged. Unmanaged hosting is generally designed for organisations that have their own System Administrators or other equivalent advanced users.
