Being a reseller basically means you run your own web hosting company, setup your own sites, establish your own pricing and are, for all practical purposes, your own boss.

Being a reseller can be a very lucrative business since it has the potential for generating substantial profit while freeing up the reseller (you) from all the expense of having to have your own servers and infrastructure; all of which cost a lot of money to maintain.

It is important also to understand, that being a reseller also implies responsibility, since reseller accounts are hosted on shared servers with other resellers, anything one reseller does that impacts negatively upon the service, impacts all. Here are some examples of the kind of reseller no web hosting company wants and no other reseller would like to share servers with:

• A reseller who does not screen his or her customers carefully can very easily sign up a spammer. Spam email can not only get the server's IP address blocked but cause outgoing email from every other account on the server to get blocked.

• A reseller who does not regularly monitor his or her resource usage (CPU, disk, load etc) to see whether his or her customers are using excessive amounts of server resources. (View our Terms of Service for acceptable CPU Loads) Such negligence severely impacts on the usability of the server for all customers and is not acceptable practice. A Reseller should regularly monitor resource usage and suspend or warn users who overstep the limits. This is responsible behavior.