| With all the various types and flavors of reseller | | | | reseller packages. |
| hosting packages typically available on offer | | | | One thing that has largely remained constant is the |
| nowadays, it can be quite a difficult task to pick out | | | | role of the reseller. As was the case in the earliest |
| which one is the most suitable with regard to your | | | | reseller hosting arrangements, the reseller still |
| needs. This is an important factor to take into | | | | functions mostly as a sort of middleman, purchasing a |
| consideration in the process of determining the range | | | | hosting account "wholesale" and then "retailing" them |
| of hosting services that you wish to sell to your | | | | off to his or her own customers. |
| customers. | | | | Probably the most common type of reseller hosting |
| Time was things were so much simpler--at least as | | | | involves the reseller advertising the services of the |
| far as the realm of hosting was concerned. We are | | | | primary host company. By all appearances, he is |
| only talking about a few years back as this industry | | | | directly employed by the primary hosting company |
| is still in its relative infancy compared to the various | | | | when he in fact is acting as an agent for the said |
| other aspects of the Internet, but even so, things | | | | company. This reseller makes his income from the |
| have changed quite a bit since then. And at the | | | | number of people who sign up for a services with |
| current rate that the Internet and its related | | | | the parent company based on his referral. |
| technologies are progressing, there will likely be many | | | | Another type of reseller hosting puts the reseller in |
| more significant changes to come in the not too | | | | the position of marketer as opposed to agent as in |
| distant future. | | | | the previous example. The difference in this case is |
| Reseller hosting then simply involved purchasing a | | | | that the end user signs up with the reseller who is in |
| large hosting account from a primary hosting service | | | | fact selling the services of the parent company. In |
| provider and reselling smaller parts of that account to | | | | this type of arrangement, all further concerns after |
| the various customers. Many of the technical | | | | the deal has been closed are coursed directly to the |
| concerns that come par for the course with the | | | | parent company. |
| business of hosting were the sole responsibility of the | | | | A third type of reseller involves totally repackaging |
| primary web host and the reseller was only in charge | | | | the primary hosting account under a brand name that |
| of setting up the individual user accounts. The | | | | is decided on by the reseller. In this scenario, the |
| subsequent expansion of the Internet however and | | | | reseller functions as a standalone service provider and |
| the massive boom of the hosting area in particular | | | | his customers deal with him directly regarding all of |
| has brought about the rise of a wider range of | | | | their concerns. |