I have been researching expert opinions regarding advantages and disadvantages of reseller hosting and have come up with the general consensus of their thoughts.

Advantages

*More Flexible – This is true. Instead of having a general cPanel account for all of your hosting accounts, you can use WHM to set up an individual cPanel for every website.

*Save Money – This depends on your situation. If you own one small site, a shared hosting account should do. If you plan on selling hosting to 100’s of clients, it is definitely cheaper to buy one affordable reseller plan as opposed to an individual shared account for each client.

*Possibility of high ROI – Absolutely. If you are able to grow your client list, you can purchase a reseller account for as little as $17.95/month. Let’s say you get 20 clients and charge each of them $5/month in hosting. You profit over $80/month, and this number can grow substantially based on the scale of your operation.

* Focus resources on customer support – When you don’t have to focus on server maintenance and other costs associated with being a large scale web host, it is a lot easier to pool your resources to make sure that your customers are happy.

Key Disadvantage

Your success as a reseller relies on your host – Sure it can, depending on your web host. But when you choose A2 Hosting who takes great pride in their 99.9% uptime guarantee, your worries should be severely mitigated.