HostGator Reseller?

Andrew

Most of the details are available on Hostgator's site - but as a reseller you get to keep ALL the money you charge your CUSTOMER - in effect, you become the web hosting company and can host "unlimited" (depending on your plan) sites using your own pricing structure etc.

HTH

The way hostgator is promoted, chances are very good
you won't get your affiliate commission. I'm pretty sure
it doesn't credit the last referring affiliate. All I know is
that I promote it here and there and I've never earned
a dime, even though people do tell me they trust my advice
on these matters. I could be wrong but I think it drops
a cookie and credits the introducing affiliate - the upshot
of which is all the affiliates are mostly building HostGator's
brand with little reward. If you had a course about how
to make a website and marketed it at people who have
never clicked on a Hostgator banner (ie. extremely green
internet users or blog readers). then you'd get your
commission.

I could be wrong about the cookie. If I am HG conversion
must be pretty poor because I've sent plenty of traffic
their way.

The downside or reselling is you have to support your customers.
The upside is another affiliate isn't getting your commission
and you get all the money.

I would say reseller just think if you get 10 clients every month and charge them $10 it would soon become very viable.

I just meant you have to know enough about webmastering
and solving common problems to support your own customers
if you resell hosting. So the downside is you may need to
take time away from your preferred activity to learn technical
stuff you'd rather not be bothered with, but you need to
because it troubles your clients.

Hosting is pretty price competitive. I mean, $10 a month for
basic hosting is all most folks need. If you're running your
own support department and you don't know how to fix
stuff fast you'll find yourself earning less than minimum wage
for your time supporting hosting customers.

Of course you could charge them $100 a month or something,
but it's a rare customer who won't find such a price ridiculous
and buy elsewhere.

Once you get big enough that you can pay a geek $10 an hour
to do the support you're good, but until that time you're buying
a job. If you have the capital laying around to sell enough
hosting packages right off to pay your support guy, great,
but if you want to start small and grow you'll be getting your
hands dirty doing stuff, on occasion, that is tedious. To outsource
it when you're starting will probably have you running at a loss.

I'm just saying this because, well, it's not too wise to
ignore the numbers when selling a commodity that is very
price sensitive and service-oriented.

Reselling should be more lucrative long term but be aware that you will be expected to provide some level of customer support/tech support. You'll also want to check out any legal requirements. If these things don't phase you then go for it.

Andrew

Why don't you set yourself up to do both?

Most of my profits come from reselling hosting, but I've still made some affiliate sales too.

If you're building websites for people (like I do), then you can offer hosting as an addon, with an annual fee to keep their hosting with you going forward.

On the other hand, if you're teaching people how to get started online and they want their own hosting account (I do this too!), then I refer them to my affiliate link.

Either way I win!

Im listening to all the good advice ... thanks for the information

With the reseller account, when you set up hosting for your clients etc how do you set up the monthly payment process?

Do you do this through Paypal or something else?

Very interested in finding out.