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Since web hosting packages have become cheaper day by day, almost all of us posses a website. Sometimes our website is hosted in our own domain and this is due to the fact that domain name registration is available from $2 to $10 per annum. For making web hosting cheaper and common, reseller hosting plans have done a great job. Let’s discuss about these hosting plans in this brief article.

There are major web hosting service providers who own terabyte of storage and gigabyte of bandwidth. They own the entire infrastructure of these environments and sometimes they own internet backbone services as well. At the beginning of web hosting era, these big companies catered to a selected market and many of the top companies were the only clients they had. With the time, the companies could not bear the cost for a long and it was a requirement to attract many clients to the web hosting market. The existing big companies either could not reach to a wider audience or they did not have the mechanism ready for it.

Reseller concept was introduced to web hosting as a solution for making web hosting more accessible by the general public. In this model, the reseller could get a package which included many small hosting plans for a lower price and they could sell to the end clients. The resellers were allowed to get the hosting plans with a lot of flexibility and sometimes, customized reseller packages were also offered.

There are many packages available for reseller web hosting plans. These plans basically differ from each other due to a few parameters. As an example, at ResellerGuru, you can find four reseller packages that range from $15 per month to $50 per month. The parameters are the storage, monthly bandwidth, number of domains the reseller package can offer, number of email addresses the reseller package can offer to its clients, number of FTP accounts that can be offered to the clients, number of MySQL databases that can be offered to the clients etc. Apart from these parameters, there are other factors that differentiate reseller packages. Mainly Microsoft Windows based and Linux based reseller packages offer different environments. While Windows based packages promote ASP.NET based environment, Linux offers LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) based environment. Usually LAMP based environments are relatively low prices as all four of the components comes as free and open source software.

When you select a web hosting package for yourself, you need to see from where the web hosting services company has purchased the reseller hosting plan. This is because ultimately you are served by the quality of service (QoS) offered by the root company.