There are mainly four categories where reseller web hosting falls, as discussed below.

(a) The reseller acts as an agent for the web hosting company. The service is advertised by the reseller as being with the actual web hosting company. People buy direct from the web hosting company but the reseller gets a cut if customers mention the reseller's name. They also offer different reseller web hosting packages.

(b) The reseller acts as a marketer for the web hosting company. The service is advertised by the reseller as being with the actual web hosting company. People buy the service from the reseller but all further contact they have is direct with the web hosting company.

(c) The reseller appears to be a web hosting company in his own right, handling sales and support but 'rebadges' somebody else's service. A customer buys web space from the reseller who buys web space (at a lower price) from the actual web hosting company. Customers contact the reseller for support.

(d) The reseller purchases a large chunk of web space and bandwidths from the web hosting company and can then carve that into individual chunks of space/bandwidth for sale to customers. Customers contact the reseller for support.

If you buy a reseller web-hosting plan it is both advantageous and disadvantageous, its advantages and disadvantages are discussed below: - 

Advantages

You can have more flexibility with your web hosting accounts.

• You can save money.
• You can earn more revenue at little cost to yourself.
• You can focus on customer support and leave technical support to your web host.
• Your web host, not you, absorbs server maintenance costs.

• Your service is only as good as your upstream provider. If the server is frequently down, for example, you may lose clients.
• If you ever have to change web hosts, the move will be an inconvenience for your clients as well as for yourself.

When you purchase a web hosting reseller account you are asked to choose reseller-hosting program. Some provide hosting reseller on Linux and some on windows. Some hosting resellers provide cheap reseller hosting plan. Hosting reseller companies also provides CPanel. Web hosting reseller show out their names to the customers with out letting them know the original name of the company.