Turn your web design or IT practice into recurring income with reseller hosting. Here’s how to plan pricing, choose a stack, and support clients.
You lease resources from a provider and subdivide them into client accounts under your brand, often with white-label nameservers and billing.
Open-source panels (e.g., HestiaCP) can cut costs but require Linux admin skills. See Hosting Types for trade-offs and compare providers in Best Web Hosting in South Africa.
Bundle domains, SSL, email, backups, and maintenance updates. Offer tiered plans (Starter/Business/Ecommerce) with clear SLAs.
Use a structured playbook: inventory, backups, cPanel/hPanel transfers, email migration, DNS changes. Follow our steps in How to Move or Transfer Web Hosting.
As you add clients, move to VPS or cloud and consider distributed backups, staging, and RPO/RTO targets. Reassess pricing annually to maintain margins.
Tip: Focus on a niche (e.g., clinics, restaurants, NGOs) to standardise stacks and support.