The other day I was looking for a few reseller hosting companies for a client of mine. I came to a surprising revolution. the day of the reseller is – Gone. Why ? First, when you look at reseller hosting companies most of them are small mom and pop operations, no one wants a guy who’s running a hosting company out of his basement. Most major and responsible hosting companies are proving VPS hosting. Check out the uk2 group. While their reseller hosting websites are showing extreme lack of SEO and interest, their VPS.net community is thriving by leaps and bounds. they are putting more resources into what developers, designers and clients really want out of a reseller account.

What do you really need out of a reseller account ?

The number one request I have gotten is Root Access. SSH access by default. While that’s a great offer to give with your reseller packages it also presents a security issue. Hosting companies scramble to give you the correct SSH and root access that keeps you from other hosting accounts provisioned on the server. Why would a hosting company invest more time and energy in a solution that is out of touch with its actual reseller needs when they have a VPS platform that does that by default and offers a lot more features.

For example on a vps you are isolated from other clients, you don’t have to worry about them getting the wrong SSH access or root access from a novice administrator. They provide you root access right out of the box. WHMCS and CPanel on Centos isn’t bad either. Straight out of the box you can tie a reseller account to your favorite provisioning system. This allows you to grow your brand by buying only the VPS nodes you need. When you need more, you buy more. This saves you time and frustration of configuring a dedicated server, being your own full time administrator installing all the proper requirements to get started. With VPS.net I can get a server up and running in a matter of minutes and add it to my WHMCS provisioning.