Best Reseller Hosting Plans in India You Should Consider
Daren Low
Editor in Chief
We have MANY web hosting-related listicles & reviews on Forrst.
Of all, creating the “best web hosting in India” article took the longest time because of the research & testing involved. The listicle you are about to read comes on the other end of that spectrum, i.e., it took the least time to create.
Why? Well, reseller hosting is basically the respective web host’s shared hosting; just you’re the one selling it now. In other words, if you divide the reseller plan’s resources the exact same as the main web host’s plans, your plan will perform more or less the same as the main host.
Hence, we primarily had to check the resources you get for the cost or the value for money of the plans to create this list:
4 Best Reseller Hosting Providers
1. A2Hosting
A2 Hosting is one of our favorite web hosting out there, and it’s by far the best reseller hosting provider, in our opinion. You get features like white-label access, expert guru crew support, WebHost Manager(WHM), cPanel control panel, free SSL certificates, free website migrations, and WHMCS or Blesta Billing System. Plus, its best-in-class performance combined with its bang for the buck reseller plans makes you not want to look past it.
They sell four standard reseller plans & four turbo reseller plans. The cheapest standard plan of all, Kickstart, costs just $18.99/month for 60 GB SSD storage & 600 GB data transfer — you can divide it among at most 20 clients. The most expensive standard plan, Scale, costs $44.99/month for 75 client accounts, 270 GB SSD storage, and 2700 GB data transfer. The Turbo plans come with NVMe storage & a 40% faster CPU and hence cost $10-$20 extra per month for the same resources.
2. BlueHost / Reseller Club
Bluehost features in almost all our top web hosting lists. So it’s natural we look for their reseller plans. Unfortunately, they don’t resell their servers. When you click on the “reseller hosting” on the Bluehost site, you are directed to Reseller Club, a prominent name in the Indian reseller hosting market, which we were going to mention either way.
Each of Reseller Club’s plans includes a free SSL certificate, 24/7 support, a 30-day money-back guarantee, and unlimited email accounts. Their cheapest plan, Essential, is priced at Rs. 1600/month for 40 GB storage & 800 GB data transfer to be divided across a maximum of 40 cPanel accounts. There are three more plans, with the most expensive one — Ultimate — costing Rs. 3700/month. The Ultimate plan lets you sell up to 300 cPanel hosting plans, and the resources you get to divide are 200 GB SSD storage and 1400 GB data transfer.
3. HostGator
Though Bluehost doesn’t have its own reseller plans, its sister company HostGator does & those too great ones — just not value-for-money enough to beat the top-2. HostGator includes a WHMCS panel to handle the clients, cPanel/WHM Panel for the clients, a free SSL certificate, and unlimited email accounts. Moreover, you can also resell domain names through the white-labeled company you establish to sell web hosting.
The reason HostGator is third on the list has nothing to do with its quality(it performs extremely well) but with its price. It’s comparatively expensive. The base plan, Aluminium, costs Rs. 2099/month for 15 cPanel accounts, 50 GB storage, and 1000 GB transfer. Platinum, the most costly plan, is a great value, though, with its 300 cPanel accounts, 250 GB storage, and 4000 GB bandwidth for Rs. 4499/month.
5. SiteGround
SiteGround doesn’t have separate reseller plans like the others; it just lets you resell their existing high-resource plans by giving or not giving white-label access. The plans include their GrowBig (20 GB storage, $9.99/month) & GoGeek (40 GB storage, $14.99/month) packs + all their auto-scalable cloud plans (40 GB+ space, starting from $100/month to $400month).
The GrowBig plan doesn’t include the white-label feature; all others do. Of course, all plans include their standard features like free SSL certificates, free email accounts, free migration, free CDN, SuperCacher, daily backups, a staging area, and more.
What is Reseller Hosting?
Reseller hosting is a service provided by a web hosting company that lets you sell their hardware+software to others by calling it your own. You basically get server resources at a wholesale price, and you divide it & sell it in retail for a profit.
Who is Reseller Hosting for?
You should get a reseller plan if…
- 1
You work on many clients’ websites. Say you are a web designer, developer, marketer who builds or handles multiple client sites.
- 2
You want to build a web hosting company but don’t want to or can’t invest in a team, hardware, space, etc. Just rent & white-label service of those who have already invested heavily in it.
How to choose Best Reseller Hosting?
As we mentioned in the introduction, reseller hosting is basically web hosting. So, of course, you need to consider web hosting’s fundamental aspects- loading speed, uptime, customer support, server response time, features, etc.
Besides, check for a couple of reseller-specific aspects, like:
And that’s about it!
Conclusion
Most people who are thinking of starting a web hosting business by reselling already have experience with web hosts. If you are one of them, like any web host’s services, and that web host lets you resell, go for it. You’ll basically be providing the same service under your name.
We have tested many web hosting companies; these four are our favorites in general as well as when it comes to reseller hosting:
A2 Hosting: Performance beast with reliable servers & affordable reseller plans. A single client account can cost as low as $0.60/month!
Bluehost/Reseller Club: Primarily meant for resellers looking for value for money packages.
Hostgator: A great overall web host with its own range of reseller hosting.
SiteGround: A WordPress-recommended host that lets you give white-labeled access to the clients on its regular plans.
If you would like to explore more options, check out our top web hosting article & look at reseller plans of other hosting providers on the list.
If you would like to explore more options, check out our top web hosting article & look at reseller plans of other hosting providers on the list.
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