UK Reseller Hosting

Reseller hosting in the UK is not as big a market as it is in the US for obvious reasons. This does not mean , however, that there are not any good deals. Certainly, the prices of reseller packages is higher in the UK; that reflects the higher cost of hosting in the UK than the US in general - it is not such a large market, with such fierce competition.

If you are based in the UK, you might still want to get you reseller hosting in the US to take advantage of the lower prices due to the favourable exchange rate. For most of your customers, there would be no noticeable difference - they would not know where their site was hosted, and for many , it would not matter.

Nevertheless, for some people, and in some circumstances it does matter. You may want to be able to access hosting support during working hours, and some of your customers may feel uneasy about their site not being hosted in the UK - in particular, they may be uneasy about contacting technical support technicians outside the UK. Don’t forget, although you are the middleman when it comes to selling to the customer, many reseller hosting providers handle all technical support for you directly.

Another point to consider is whether you would get more UK customers if your prices are in £s rather than $s. Some US hosts may be able to handle billing in different currecies, others may not.

These considerations may outweigh the cost advantages of hosting in the US.

Many of the bigger web hosts in the UK offer reseller packages, although the prices tend to be in the £40-£50pm price range; also something to look out for is that some seem to charge extra for things that most US hosting companies wouldn’t be able to get away with charging for. One of the biggest UK web hosting companies not only charges £50 month, but also £10pa per domain name hosted, and extra for mysql databases!

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Well worth looking at is Heart Internet. Their Reseller Professional package at £29.99/month is tailored for web designers, Internet integrators, web hosting resellers and developers, and includes unlimited web space, unlimited data transfer and the ability to host unlimited domains at no extra charge. It comes with a good selection of installable scripts including Joomla, Wordpress etc. (see their site for full list)
The package includes their own eXtend control panel. The panel is fully brandable - as standard they provide 12 professionally designed templates that you can apply to the control panels of all your customers.

If you don’t like any of the templates provided, you can create your own look and feel and upload it via your Reseller Control Centre.

A neat feature is the customer-management database which allows you to store all your customers’ details online, associate customers with web hosting accounts and send emails to groups of customers.