Is it worth the effort for a web designer to resell hosting to clients?
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M$7 Answers
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Hosting is a good "value add". It's a lot like fries at McDonalds. You can say "would you like hosting with that". Most folks will say yes because they either don't know much about Hosting, they don't want to be bothered with the management, or they just plain out trust you.
Buy a cPanel "reseller" account. You can host as many small sites as you would like.
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Unlimited cPanel reseller hosting accounts usually cost about $20 - $30 per month. If you charge 1 customer $20 a month then ALL of your hosting is paid for, including your own! Any sales beyond that 1 customer are profit.
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You get paid a monthly fee for web hosting. Some designers that I know simply sell this in yearly blocks so that they don't have to worry about invoicing.
The other option to make money on Hosting is to sign up to become an affiliate or one (or more) hosting companies. Some hosting companies (MediaTemple) pay very well for referrals.
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The only downside is support. Even small web hosting will incur some amount of support. You might have to deal with an e-mail problem, domain changes, etc. These things can take a surprising amount of time.
Still, I say yes.... it is well worth it to offer resold web hosting for even mildly technical designers!
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I design sites as well, and sell hosting packages to the less sophisticated clients- the ones who I know who won't be accessing anything they shouldn't and overall its worth it. I'm the only one who accesses the back end of their site - they don't even ftp, so I'm not worried about someone trying to change something and crashing it.. But if they had any skills at all, it might not be worth the hassle...
I make enough on hosting to justify the hassle, but not enough if they were to be hands on techie types.. but YMMV.. HTH.
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Location
meaning were you are reselling
for example
in the middle east
especially Saudi Arabia
it's well worth it
cause the trind here nowadays is forums
and most of the people who own them are (internet illiterate)
so they well be relying on you for (everything)
and they well pay
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just be nice and don't rip them off too much (^_^)
and you can make a decent living and be famous around as one of the best (hosting service providers)
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M$Unless you can automate the labor intense manage of your servers, it won't be profitable.
You will need scale and volume to compete with companies like godaddy
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I personally don't think it's worth the time. I make lots of extra spending money on the side by designing small websites for very tiny companies, mostly 'out of the den' businesses which just need a web presence to list their products.
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If you're an SEO guy... I'm sure that you already know... but there are some really good tactics that you can use when you start hosting a few accounts over a few IP addresses.