A Profitable Method That's Often Ignored....

This seems like an ideal long term solution. I wasn't so certain, I've thought about it before.

But what I need to ask is this:

Is "getting a reseller hosting account and selling hosting to businesses" method the same as being an affiliate of a hosting service?

E.G. Such as registering with an Affiliate Program like this one - HostGator.com - We Eat Up The Competition

Or is it something entirely different?

One thing I don't know for certain regarding the "residual" income you've mentioned is this -

Does it mean that because these hosting services requires monthly payments, and since you referred people to sign up for them and they have to pay monthly then does that mean you earn a commission every month for as long as whomever you referred to sign up and registered for their hosting service continues to use that service?

Or is it just a one time commission (no re-occurring) where you only earn a single commission when they initially sign up?

If it's the former, then that's a very effective long term solution or at least it seems to be to me. As long as I get everything done correctly, I meant.

There's A LOT of cost involved in setting up your own hosting company. It's a far bigger commitment than buying a reseller account and a lot more that could go wrong! I would consider it further down the line (maybe) but for now I'm sticking with this!

With your reseller account (cheapest being about $25/month) you can make many accounts and create different packages or tailor make each account to suit the customer. You have a massive amount of disk space and bandwidth available so you can have many many customers and charge whatever you want whilst only paying $25/month. There's a ton of money to be made.

There is a moderate amount of customer support needed but through trial and error I've managed to dramatically reduce the time required. Also the main business model I'm running means the customers rarely run into problems. The way I run it is very different to a standard hosting business. I've been clever

It's very different to an affiliate program. I started off doing that but I'm not a fan of one-off payments. I like residual income. The hosting customers pay me monthly for the hosting and I cut out any need for an affiliate program. As far as the customers are concerned I'm in no way affiliated with any other hosting company.

Again, I prefer residual income and don't like getting paid just once. It's a constant mission to find customers. As I mentioned above I've organised it so that there's a lot less time spent on current customers and it's mostly about adding more than maintaining what I have. Whilst hosting affiliate programs are nice payouts (if you can be bothered to keep finding new customers) I'd much rather have many customers paying $XX/month for years to come than to constantly promote and get larger one-off payments.


In summary; if you spend time planning out how you can use your reseller account effectively you can save a lot of time and make a nice amount of money