Let’s imagine your online business is a living breathing organism, much like a newborn baby. Now, consider the physical makeup of that organism. You will notice right away that there are components that are integral to the support of that physical body. Take, for example, the vertebral column or backbone; these enable upright mobility and locomotion of the body. That’s exactly what web hosting is to an online business.
Web Hosting is the backbone of your online business and therefore should be taken under great consideration so that you choose the best web hosting provider and a fast hosting plan that is suitable for your online business’ longevity and success.
While the design, look and feel for your website is important to your overall user experience, having a great website host is equally imperative. With so many hosting options to choose from, carefully assessing your hosting needs could be a game changer. Many hosting companies provide advice. So go ahead and get some smart hosting advice that will benefit your business in the long term.
This post will breakdown two popular hosting options sought after by prospective website owners, Reseller hosting and VPS hosting. We will outline the specs of both hosting types to help you decide which solution is best for your business.
Let’s get started.
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Reseller Hosting
Reseller hosting also referred to as White Label Hosting is wholesale web hosting plans designed for a business to resell. Consider a lot like a franchise but without having to use the umbrella business’ branding. A reseller purchases server space with its own resources and then resells or rents those pieces of internet real estate to others. Therefore, enabling a business owner to become a hosting provider. With reseller hosting, you can host as many websites of your own while still renting out space to other users for profit.
Reseller hosting is perfect for tech companies offering web development services. This additional offering allows you to package an entire web deal for your clients.
Advantages of Reseller Hosting
- Purchasing and setting up reseller hosting is easy, affordable and does not require much technical knowledge.
- Reseller hosting includes a fully customisable control panel. All new accounts sold under the reseller’s management also receives a handy control panel.
- It is affordable with multiple plan options to choose from.
- Manage all of your websites using one control panel and WHM (web host manager) for your clients.
- Bring in revenue while hosting your own websites and offering hosting packages to your users.
- Fully brandable with White Label Hosting.
Who is Reseller Hosting Suitable For
Reseller hosting is suitable for anyone passionate about running and developing their own hosting company. For web developers that offer website building services to add hosting with their packages, and for anyone wishing to draw in revenue online while hosting their own websites. Anyone can become a reseller. Technical knowledge is not a prerequisite as your packages will include excellent around-the-clock technical support from your umbrella hosting provider.
VPS Hosting
VPS stands for a virtual private server hosting. This is a hosting environment that operates at the intersection of shared hosting and a dedicated server.
What does that mean?
In a shared hosting environment, users purchase allotments on a server, sharing its resources with each other, including hard disk space, bandwidth and other server features. This option is usually preferred by new businesses wishing to have affordable hosting when starting out.
In a dedicated hosting environment, the entire server is allotted to one user, where all of the server’s resources are used by a primary user. This creates the perfect conditions for clients to benefit from super fast hosting. An option chosen by major websites with millions of traffic daily that needs to sever power to contend with their large websites.
VPS hosting marries these two hosting environments seamlessly. Giving you the fast server resources of a dedicated server and the idea and affordability of a shared hosting environment.
With VPS hosting resources like CPU, RAM, hard disk space, bandwidth belongs to a primary user. A VPS server, however, has compartments with these allotments for each of the owners, again giving you the best of both worlds.
Advantages of VPS Hosting
- Web Hosting companies virtually split a large ‘super’ server, then allocates fixed resources to each user/account. Users do not share components.
- VPS is powerful like a dedicated server but is significantly cheaper and allows for the scalability of server resources.
- Great for growing websites that need a customisable hosting environment with little to no technical knowledge.
- Full root access giving you more control over your server.
The Difference between Reseller and VPS Hosting
The core difference between the two lies with whether or not you are interested in and invested in starting a hosting business of your own and on what type of business you are running.
If you want to start a hosting business while running your own website or multiple websites then reseller hosting is for you.
However, if you have established a name for yourself on the internet and your brand awareness is exploding leading to higher daily traffic to your website and you wish for more hosting room and resources then VPS hosting is a logical option for you as an upgrade.
So, in a nutshell, the difference between the two is that reseller hosting is primarily for those who want to resell website hosting. In this case you can sell it on a website or as a complement to your already existing web development services. As an established web developer, imagine offering hosting services to your clients and prospective clients. They could get everything from you without the need to go elsewhere for other services. On the other hand, VPS hosting is the scalable option to choose when your online website begins to grow exponentially and you need more power and space to scale your business.
Conclusion
Both web hosting options cater to different business needs while being equally great options depending on the needs of the business. The good news is you can start with VPS hosting as an upgrade to your existing hosting environment and if you find that you wish to begin offering hosting packages to your users; if that coincides with your business or you just wish to start a hosting company of your own, you can simply switch to Reseller hosting and fully brand your own hosting company.
The takeaway here is that both of these hosting options offer great value for money and can take your website and business to the next level.
