The Internet offers endless possibilities of making money / developing a business. Many networks / merchants / service providers, in their strategy of improving their market position, skipped the regular affiliate system, and moved towards in offering key businesses.

Such an online key business would work almost similar as an affiliate system, but the end user never gets to the service provider, but completes the request directly on the partner website, using it’s own branded name.

Such examples are the web hosting reseller plans.

Quite a lot web hosting providers, to my surprise, offer such reseller services. Signing up as a reseller will have you act as a web hosting provider as well, offering web hosting services and web domains registration services from your own branded website. Your end users will not know that they are hosted actually by a third company, but by you.

As I said, I was able to find many such reseller services, but one came in front among all: Resellers Panel.

Signing up with them is free, and most of the features you can access as a reseller are also free. They don’t require any monthly/yearly fee from your side, as the rest of such service providers do. You will pay them only when someone sign-ups for a plan you offer, and not before you get your money from the end user.

Resellers Panel offer you as a reseller the following features:

• co-branded website, with many templates to choose from and personalize
• multi-language web templates and control panel for your users
• pre-designed web hosting plans at competitive prices
• the ability to design your own web hosting plans and set up your own prices
• domain name availability checker
• web domains registration: .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .tv, .name, .us, .cn, .tw and many more
• the ability to set your own prices for web domains
• web domains free services: registrar-lock, transfer, ID protect
• web hosting free services: control panel, email accounts and lists, MySQL, PHP
• service upgrades features
• hosting plan and domain renewal
• end users manager: invoicing, reminders, newsletters
• service manager: hosting plans, web domains
• general reporting system
• possibility to use remote forms on your website or reseller API
• client support (you can also set up your own client support service)

As you can see, you get many free features to start your online business. Your expenses would reduce in this case only to buying a web domain name, and of course a hosting plan (you could do this right from Resellers Panel). For other providers you could check here.

Now, the prices for international hosting are very competitive, but if you will try to offer web hosting services to a specific area like a country in Asia, Eastern Europe (even Western Europe), Africa or South America, you will find that using Resellers Panel will place you in top. I have developed onesuch site based on Resellers Panel offer - SiteHost.ro. Besides checking it on a monthly basis to see what else could I optimeze or update any info, i don’t do anything else and the site runs itself.

Resellers Panel were my choice as they offer the cheapest startup, and some of the most competitive prices in the hosting resellers industry. Other such plans have monthly fees that you will have to pay, even if you have your own end customers or not.