Reseller Hosting Reviews

The Best Reseller Hosting Services of 2019

By Stéphane Brault Oct 8, 2018

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If you're a web developer or a web designer, reseller hosting is great way to increase your revenues by offering web hosting services to your current customers. Since your hosting provider takes care of managing the web servers and providing technical support to your customers, you can focus on your main job while generating a passive income stream.

Top 10 Most Popular Reseller Web Hosting Services

Here are some of the most popular reseller hosting services. The ranking is based on the ratings we receive through the user reviews on this site.

1. SiteGround

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When it comes to reseller hosting, Siteground has a whole different approach: as reseller, you pay only for the number of customer accounts you are using. This makes reseller hosting much more affordable for starters who don't have a lot of websites to host at first. Basically, Siteground uses a "credit" system where one (1) credit allows you to activate one (1) customer account. A single credit will cost you as low as $42 per year.

Each hosting account features CentOS Linux, 10 GB of web space, unmetered data transfer, free daily backups, cPanel, SSH access and unlimited MySQL databases. Siteground has data centers in five (5) locations including Chicago, US, London, UK, Amsterdam, NL, Milan, IT and Singapore, SG.

Verdict: Highly recommended, especially for starters on a budget.

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Website: https://www.siteground.com/reseller_hosting.htm

2. JaguarPC

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JaguarPC was founded in 1998 and is now hosting more than 300,000 domains. They have data centers located in Atlanta, Dallas and New York as well as in the United Kingdom.

They offer classic cPanel / WHM reseller hosting loaded with a ton of features including one-click installs on all the latest software and support for PHP5, PHP7, Ruby on Rails and Python. Every cPanel reseller plan comes with a free Enom reseller account that allows you to resell domain names.

Plans: 4
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Website: https://www.jaguarpc.com/reseller-hosting/

3. StableHost

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While StableHost may not be a big name as Go Daddy or HostGator, they have nonetheless built a solid reputation by delivering extremely fast and reliable web hosting services. They are one of the few hosting companies to use the LiteSpeed PHP Caching module which makes PHP websites run much faster. StableHost also make daily backups of your customer's accounts using R1Soft.

Their Basic Reseller Hosting plan makes it easy for beginners on a budget to start selling web hosting services from only $9.95 per month. Every reseller hosting package includes cPanel, a one-click installer for popular web softwares, a web builder and SSD storage.

Verdict: Definitely worth a try.

Plans: 3
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Website: https://www.stablehost.com/reseller-hosting.php

4. InMotion Hosting

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InMotion Hosting has been playing in the major leagues for years now while remaining an independent web hosting company. Based out of Los Angeles, California, the company now has data centers located in Los Angeles and Ashburn, VA. The company prides itself in delivering great customer support.

While InMotion Hosting offers great web hosting services, their reseller hosting plans are maybe a little bit to big for new resellers who just have a few websites. The entry package is available from $19.99 per month for the first term but after this period, the renewal price is $27.99 per month. This is somewhat pricey in my opinion. For this price, I'd go for a virtual private server (VPS) instead.

Verdict: Great host but a bit pricey.

Plans: 3
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Website: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/reseller-hosting

5. Lunarpages

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Founded in 1997, Lunarpages is a reputable web hosting company owned by Add2Net, inc. Their data center is located in Orange city, California.

Lunarpages offers a one-size-fits-all reseller hosting plan for developers which includes a free domain name, cPanel and WHM control panels and unlimited email accounts. Addons such as Premium Exchange E-Mail, Baruwa Spam Filtering and SecureLive Security are also available for an additional cost. The brandable control panel makes it easy for you to add your own business logo.

Verdict: A bit expensive compared to some competitors.

Plans: 1
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Website: https://lunarpages.com/web-hosting/shared-hosting/developer-reseller-hosting/

6. GreenGeeks

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Based out of Agoura Hillas, CA, GreenGeeks focuses on shared hosting and reseller hosting services exclusively. The company uses highly reliable web servers from SingleHop to provide hosting services from Phoenix, US, Toronto, CA and Amsterdam, NL.

GreenGeeks offers white label cPanel reseller hosting which includes a free WHMCS Billing System license, wholesale domains and SSD storage.

Plans: 5
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Website: http://www.greengeeks.com/reseller-hosting/

7. Namecheap

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Once known for selling domain names and SSL certificates exclusively, Namecheap has quickly grown into a full web hosting company. They are now offering shared hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated servers. Being a customer myself, I can attest that Namecheap provides fast and professional support.

Namecheap provides cPanel reseller hosting with the classic set of features you'd expect from this type of hosting environment. The pricing is reasonable however there is nothing special about their reseller hosting packages. Still not a bad choice at all.

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Website: https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/reseller.aspx

8. HostGator

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HostGator is probably dominating the reseller hosting market. From its humble debuts in Florida, the company has grown into a behemoth and were then bought by the Endurance International Group.

Hostgator provides cPanel reseller hosting services out of their Houston, TX data center. Every reseller hosting package allows you to host an unlimited number of accounts although you will be limited by disk space and banwidth. A free WHMCS license is also included with every plan.

Plans: 3
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Website: https://www.hostgator.com/reseller-hosting/

9. ResellerClub

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Owned by Directi Web Technology, ResellerClub is a major web hosting company who is highly popular in India. While they seem to appeal more to the Indian market, the company also has offices in the US.

ResellerClub offers both Linux and Windows reseller hosting services. Each reseller hosting plan includes unlimited websites, unlimited emails and unlimited cPanel accounts. Their hosting environment features cPanel, CloudLinux, PHP, Python, Perl and MySQL databases. One-click installers are made available to your customers so they can easily deploy a CMS or a shopping cart.

Plans: 4
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Website: https://www.resellerclub.com/reseller-hosting

Reseller hosting is a completely different ball game compared to regular hosting plans. True, many of the factors necessary for personal and business hosting remain the same – SLAs, great customer support, ease-of-use and pricing. But resellers have to do a lot more, configure a great many options, design their own branding experience, and decide how they want to go about offering their own hosting services. Many web hosts provide essential services for resellers that enable them to easily set up an online presence and start selling hosting packages as soon as possible.

Resellers will also need to decide upon the best products for provisioning, managing, and billing accounts. While the default cPanel/WHM combination is great for administrative purposes and for everything a client will need to manage a particular account, it doesn’t contain the necessary tools for all of the associated aspects of reseller hosting. For example, you need to have a ticketing system to easily track and solve customer issues. Billing integration is also an absolutely essential aspect of customer management software.

Add to that the ability to mix-and-match hosting packages, provide discounts and coupons, have a seamless check in process, and a proper email system for automatic communication, account suspensions etc., and you can see that a reseller is going to have their hands full when they set up shop. So let’s take a look at some of the few essentials that they need to be aware of as well as a brief rundown of some of the popular billing and customer management software products out there.

This is pretty much a standard when it comes to managing the admin and client-side of reseller hosting. The cPanel interface will be what the clients of the reseller will see. WHM is the administrative backend that does all of the heavy lifting when it comes to things like server management, DNS configuration, security, and all of the tiny but essential tasks that go into server management.

WHM also allows you to define “packages” which form the backbone of further billing products set up. You can create a variety of hosting plans, each of which has its own bandwidth, disk usage, email addresses, FTP accounts etc. Once you have these packages defined, your customer management software like WHMCS, Clientexec, Blesta etc will be able to assign them prices and create individual packages for sale.

WHM access is provided to resellers – though not the full version for security reasons. This is not necessarily a VPS or a dedicated hosting server where you have complete root access to everything. However, enough flexibility is provided so that you can create new accounts and hosting packages.

When it comes to providing a user interface for billing, invoicing, and account management, there are a few big names like WHMCS and Clientexec, as well as some up-and-coming services that have been getting a lot of traction lately.

These billing products will connect with the backend WHM installation via the means of something called a “remote key”. This enables secure communication between the two and seamless integration. Each product has a different paradigm for accounts and hosting packages and they need a little bit of getting used to.

To a great extent, much of the choice of which billing system to use will come down to familiarity. You can save yourself a great deal of time and effort by using a system that you already know well. However, if you’re just getting started with reseller hosting, you can do a basic price comparison as well as take a look at some of the major differences between the customer management software products.

Widely considered to be one of the most well-known and widely used billing solutions, WHMCS stands out for its feature set and a decent interface. It has had some historical problems with security and long-standing bugs. Moreover, many of the files are encrypted meaning that they can’t be changed and so this limits its user based customizability.

WHMCS has some excellently priced plans especially when it comes to owning the product instead of merely leasing it. As of this writing, you can purchase a WHMCS branded license for $250. This includes one year of support and updates, after which you can purchase further support on an ad hoc basis for $60 every six months. If you want to take your branding one step further, you can buy an unbranded version for $325 instead. This will not contain the WHMCS link back and will allow you to present your own branding to your clients.

Clientexec has a completely different interface compared to WHMCS. When you first set up hosting products, it gives you easy preconfigured options that you can customize. One quirk of working with Clientexec is that you need to set up a separate process to automatically approve and activate new clients. It’s annoying especially if it increases your workload significantly. Luckily, you can create a security exception and a separate Cron job to automate the process.

The cost of purchasing Clientexec outright is significantly more compared to WHMCS. At $500, it’s exactly double. Even the monthly licenses are ever so slightly more costly. Still it’s a very pretty interface, though some find WHMCS to be somewhat more stable. You occasionally get pages in Clientexec that don’t render properly and need to be reloaded.

This is a relatively new billing and customer management software product that’s been getting some amazing reviews across the board. Like WHMCS, the branded license for outright purchase is $250 and the unbranded is slightly cheaper at $300. However, there is yet another license you can purchase which gives you unlimited support and updates in perpetuity. This means that if you’re interested in making a long-term investment in client management software, Blesta can be a an excellent deal. Otherwise, you have to pay $39 whenever you want to make use of support or updates.

Another selling point of Blesta is that almost all of its files with just a couple of exceptions are unencrypted. This means that you can customize it to your heart’s content to create a branding experience that is completely unique. Add to that, it has been getting excellent feedback for fast customer support and a very friendly and active community.

HostBill is unique in that it provides a huge number of versions of its software as well as offerings that are simply unavailable elsewhere. For example, it allows customers to manage even Plesk hosting instead of just cPanel. In addition, it has advanced provisioning capabilities with its “All Inclusive” edition with support for advanced cloud technologies such as RackSpace. Moreover, it doesn’t sell any periodic or monthly licenses and instead chooses to only offer licenses for outright purchase.

All of this power and functionality comes at a heavy price though. The all-inclusive package costs a whopping $5000 whereas the cheapest Enterprise edition is $1000. Clearly this is a solution only for the most advanced users who require its powerful capabilities to offer services far beyond what a regular hosting reseller provides.

With so much choice in the reseller hosting market, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. However, you can take comfort in the fact that there is no significant difference in the feature sets offered by various well-known products in the market. You can always opt for a monthly license and test out the various management solutions for yourself before settling on one for the long-term.