HostGator Reseller Plans Review – Are They Worth it?
If you’re considering entering the lucrative business of web hosting, you might be considering a reseller hosting package with a reputable, large-scale web host. Once such hosting company is the HostGator Reseller division.
Starting at $24.95 per month, HostGator offers its reseller customers access to 12-50 Gigs of disk space and 125-350 gigs of transfer per reseller account. Depending on the package you choose, you could host a few big sites or 100’s of normal sized websites on one account.
With a HostGator Reseller account, you will have access to WHM (Web Hosting Manager), a control panel which manages all of your sub-accounts. Each sub account will have its own cpanel or hosting control panel.
HostGator also offers web hosting templates to help build your web hosting business website, a billing manager script that integrates with PayPal so you can automatically bill your hosting clients each month and a domain name reseller account.
So who needs reseller hosting?
- Web Designers who want to sell web hosting packages to their design clients
- Entrepreneurs who want to enter the highly lucrative hosting business
- Webmasters and Google AdSense publishers who build multiple websites and want to keep them independent of one and other.
- Affiliate Marketers who need to build many websites and want to keep them IP address independent.
If you fit one of the bullets above, the HostGator Reseller account is a good choice. You can start with the cheapest plan, then upgrade as your business and needs increase. You can upgrade your account overall, or just upgrade certain features like adding a new IP address (or multiple IP addresses).
If you don’t fit one of the bullets above, but need a hosting plan with the ability to host multiple websites under one plan, you might consider the cheaper HostGator Shared Hosting plans. For just $10 a month, you can get a plan that hosts unlimited websites (as add-on domains). This type of account could also be used for reselling hosting, but it lacks many of the features you will need to give your hosting clients full server access.
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