Buying Guide
What genuinely settles Reseller Hosting for Agencies
A direct answer for web agencies converting delivered client projects into revenue that recurs every month: how to weigh the field, what to rule out early, and the setup we would take ourselves.
The short answer
If one line is all you read, make it this: a WHM reseller plan sized to your client list, where Reseller 1 comfortably carries the first hundred accounts with all of them branded as yours.
The rest of the page shows the working behind that call: which checks to run, the mistake to avoid, and how to verify every claim yourself before money moves.
By the Hosting & Domains team · Reviewed 18 August 2026
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This page is written for web agencies converting delivered client projects into revenue that recurs every month. If that is you, the decision does have a right answer — it simply rarely matches what commission-funded ranking tables are paid to print.
Begin from one fact about this market and the rest falls in behind it: reselling changes an agency's arithmetic completely. A project worth one invoice becomes a subscriber worth a margin every month, and clients whose hosting you hold are famously reluctant to move.
The short list of checks that matter
This is the scorecard we would use — and we are content to be marked against it too:
WHM above, one cPanel account beneath per client, so one customer's mess stops at that customer.
White labelling all the way through the stack, private nameservers on your own brand included.
Overselling permitted, which lets you price on the value you add instead of reciting our rate card.
Resource ceilings applied account by account, keeping a runaway site one client's bad afternoon rather than everybody's.
Read this before you compare a single price
Stacking client sites as addon domains inside one account, where a single compromise or suspension takes your whole recurring revenue offline at once.
Once it has been named you see it everywhere in this market — and steering around it does more for you than optimising any other figure on the page.
The verdict, unhedged
A WHM reseller plan sized to your client list, where Reseller 1 comfortably carries the first hundred accounts with all of them branded as yours.
In concrete terms that is our Reseller 1 option: one flat rate carrying the essentials (SSL, migration, copies, mail) this market prefers to bill separately, with in-place upgrades ready when the work picks up.
Mailboxes at your own name are part of the plan — mail is included, not sold back to you at the checkout.
Ten minutes of checking, well spent
Put us through the same checks: write to support before paying and see who answers, compare the renewal rate with the order rate, read the refund terms in full, and look the company up — ours is UK Health Care Support Ltd, registered in England and Wales, on the public record.
The refund window covers the rest — bring a live site over (the free migration makes that easy), run it for two real weeks, and let ordinary use answer what no sales page can.
Why we can afford to answer straight
This is a host writing about hosting, and we would rather say so plainly. No manufactured neutrality, no leaderboard paid for by referral cheques. Honesty traded for trust — and it reads better anyway.
Hosted somewhere else already? We move the whole site at no charge, usually within 24 hours, and it goes on answering visitors throughout.
- Checks you can run again yourself
- Renewal rates published, not footnoted
- A free migration makes the trial easy
- Refund terms with no small print
Why Hosting & Domains
Standard on every plan
NVMe and LiteSpeed as standard
The hardware other hosts keep behind premium tiers is simply the baseline build here.
One rate, published in the open
What you order at is what you renew at — the only comparison that counts is one we win by default.
A refund without an argument
If we are not the fit, leaving is one request rather than a negotiation — which is why we invite the test.
The essentials inside, not added on
SSL, the migration, backups and mail come with every plan rather than appearing as checkout extras.
An upgrade path that is real
Shared, VPS and dedicated on one platform — today's choice never boxes tomorrow in.
Written out of real conversations
Every check here traces back to real exchanges with web agencies converting delivered client projects into revenue that recurs every month, not to a features spreadsheet.
Quick Start
Order placed to site online
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Write the job down in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon lost in feature grids — write it before you look at a single host.
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Compare on what year two costs
Introductory rates are the oldest device in this market; rank hosts by the second year instead and the order rearranges itself at once.
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Run a real trial inside the refund window
Putting your own site on the platform answers what no review can, and free migration plus the refund terms take the risk out of trying.
Built In
Fitted to every plan
- LiteSpeed caching in the server itself rather than bolted on by plugin
- A daily copy, with restores you run yourself from the panel
- Softaculous included for one-click application installs
- Upgrades applied in place, with no migration when you change plan
- cPanel, which is what most of the industry already runs
- Free SSL on every plan, reissued before the old one lapses
- Webmail in the browser plus IMAP, POP and SMTP for any client
- The name's first year included when you order annually
- PHP versions set per site from the control panel
- WordPress Toolkit, with the updates seen to for you
Frequently Asked
The questions that come up most
What should I charge clients for hosting?
Price the care rather than the disk. Anywhere from £15 to £30 a month, with updates and minor fixes wrapped in, is entirely ordinary. What the client buys is a named person answerable when something breaks, which is worth a great deal more than gigabytes.
A client leaves the agency — what then?
Their cPanel account lifts out intact, because it was never tangled up with anybody else's. Clean departures protect your reputation in a small trade, and that per-account separation is the only reason a departure can be clean.
What is the refund position if I change my mind?
Shared, business, WordPress and WooCommerce hosting get thirty days, and reseller gets seven. VPS and dedicated servers are built to order the moment payment lands, so they sit outside the guarantee — as do domain registrations, where the registry charges the instant the name is secured. Inside the window one request returns the hosting fee, with no retention script to sit through.
Do plans include copies I can restore myself?
Yes — every plan gets a daily copy, and the restore runs from your panel in minutes: files, databases or both, at three in the morning with no ticket queue in the way. Keeping a further copy offsite is still a sound habit, and nothing here stops you.
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