server owners

[powerchaos]

what is a reseller account for Dedicated and VPS server?

a reseller is some one who buys from me and then sells it to his clients with some profit

on that way the user does not need to have the servers , can get a discount and make easy profit
if there are problems then the reseller can contact his host and most of the time the host solves the problem or explains how to solve the problem (vps = host solves the problems as you got no acces to the vps servers, depending on vps system that is used , dedicated = host does solve the problem in some cases , depending on problem if he provide docu or that he fix it for you )

the client itself thinks it comes from the reseller , so the reseller does the first line support when the host does the second line support

in short
a reseller is some one who buys servers from a host and then claim it as his own and take the responsibility of that server to his clients

the only downside is , if there is a problem and the reseller can not solve it then it need to contact the host , the host then sends the reply back to the reseller so it can take longer to get a response as client

good part is , there is no skills for needed , no hardware for needed and no expensive costs for needed to sell dedicated/vps servers and you can make some money ( like 15% discounts on servers )

The reselling i am talking about is for webhosting that want to sell dedicated servers and does not have the knowledge or money to put there own servers in a datacenter (colocation)

the other reseller packages you see on the net are mainly cpanel reseller packages

Those things are shared accounts (mostly small webhosts or webhosts that does not know mutch what they do ) , you got a reseller account ( whm ) and you sell webhosting , so you share a part of your space to other users and that is also called reselling but it is a differend way of reselling
the big downside of those are that you got no control about it , that if there is a problem you can not fix it and that you are generaly oversold ( selling 20 accounts with no hd limit on a 20GB vps for example .. not the first time that that happends )


hopely you understand the difference and do you got the answer you was looking for :D

to give a other idea
http://dehost.org/vps.html
if you sell those against 15% cheaper then you are a vps reseller , they are on your name and you are responsible for them and you make profit as you can charge the same price or more to the clients and does not need the skills/money to setup/manage a node*
that is the purpose of reselling :D

*node = main server where the vps servers are on

Greetings From PowerChaos