Reseller Hosting Is What Most Everyone Purchases!

[CitrixHost]

If they don't own the bandwidth they must be resellers. They are buying bandwidth from another source.


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[hostloc]

reseller has it's own advantages. for example you might get less expensive hosting plan with the same hosting features from actual hosting provider.

 

[SenseiSteve]

Nor can hosting be provided without bandwidth.

If I give you a free cross connect to a different provider than those I offer, then (again) I am not reselling bandwidth to provide colo services.

 

[alnitech]

Many people has their own hardware in DC

 

[BraginHost]

Not all small hosting companies are resellers. But anyway: you can organize tings like shared hosting and VPS on your own server but it is hard to become the top level registrar to sell domain names so most hosting providers own reseller accounts in domain area.

 

[Forward Web]

According to my research MOST if NOT ALL hosting providers have to purchase their hosting from someone. Am I correct? This would make everyone in the hosting business a reseller!!!! If I am correct, does anyone wish to tell us who you purchase your wholesale hosting from? Afterall if you are not willing to share the information, does this mean that you have a deceptive practice?

To those interested in hosting services dont get all bent out of shape over whether a company is a reseller company or not. If they are not a reseller then how are where did they get their servers????? Where did they get the software and control panel they use? Where did they purchase the equipment they own? There is a price for business, and every viable business must pay a price.

Take Wal-Mart for instance and any other retail store in America. They are all resellers of different brands of products. Would you refuse to shop at Wal-Mart or consider them not a viable company because they chose their products at a wholesale price and resells them at a retail to the general public.

I see what you are trying to get at. However there is a big difference between a company that is reselling someone elses shared web hosting services (by simply signing up for a reseller web hosting package) and a company that has leased/colocated their own servers and developed their own custom version of shared web hosting.

In my opinion the big difference between a reseller and a non-reseller is a reseller does not have root access to the server where a non-reseller does.

With that being said, is there anything wrong with getting web hosting from a reseller? Absolutely not, everyone has to start somewhere and if the company you are purchasing your hosting from is able to satisfy your needs, then that is all that matters.

 

[NetFusionHost]

Saying that you have deceptive practice for not sharing some of the details behind your business is just wrong. Business is business and the less you share about the deep insides, the more edge you have over the competition.