Buyer's Guide
Hosting for Agencies Selling Care Plans: a straight buyer's guide
Written for agencies wrapping hosting, updates and support into a single monthly retainer — the tests that matter, the trap to sidestep, and where we would honestly send you.
Straight answer first
Our verdict, stated first: reseller hosting paired with WordPress Toolkit — separation for the billing model, bulk tooling for the margin.
The reasoning, the tests and the trap to avoid all sit below — written for agencies wrapping hosting, updates and support into a single monthly retainer, with none of the affiliate-table theatre this subject usually attracts.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026
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Most advice on this subject is a ranking table funded by referral fees. This page works differently: name the buyer (agencies wrapping hosting, updates and support into a single monthly retainer), name the tests, name the trap, and give a recommendation we are happy to defend across the counter.
Whether a care plan makes money is decided by tooling. The gap between a profitable plan and a break-even one is usually the difference between updates measured in minutes per fleet and updates measured in minutes per site. Keep that in view and most of the noise in this market sorts itself into signal.
The tests that actually decide it
Hold every candidate against these, in this order:
One isolated account per client, which keeps incidents contained and billing tidy.
Fleet tooling — bulk updates, monitoring, staging — so the labour inside a care plan stays profitable.
White-label surfaces, so the name on the invoice is yours from top to bottom.
A margin structure that improves as the client list grows rather than flattening out.
What to leave on the shelf (and why it is everywhere)
Pricing care plans on hopeful labour estimates over hosting with no fleet tooling — the margin disappears into maintenance hours nobody costed.
The pattern lasts because its cost lands later: at renewal, at migration, or at the worst possible point in your growth. The antidote is dull arithmetic — total cost across two or three years, with every 'extra' you would actually need added in.
The verdict, plainly
Reseller hosting paired with WordPress Toolkit — separation for the billing model, bulk tooling for the margin.
In concrete terms, that is our Reseller 2 option: one flat price, stocked with the essentials (SSL, migration, backups, mail) this market loves to sell separately, and upgradeable in place when the job grows.
Real people answer the counter at any hour, including the awkward questions other hosts wave off as out of scope.
Take nobody's word, including ours
Any host worth ordering from survives inspection: check the renewal price is printed on the tag rather than in a footnote, ask support a real question at an awkward hour and read the reply, comb the refund policy for carve-outs, and look up the company registration — a genuine business leaves a paper trail.
The refund window covers the rest — move a real site across (the free migration makes that painless), live with it for a fortnight, and let daily use settle what no marketing page can.
No affiliate table, no ranking fee
We are a host recommending hosting, and we say it plainly. No pretend neutrality, no league table paid for by referral fees. The trade is openness for trust, and it reads better besides.
Mailboxes on your own domain are part of the plan, never an add-on sold back to you at checkout.
- Tests you can run for yourself
- Renewal prices on the tag, not in a footnote
- The free move in makes trying us painless
- A refund policy with no small print
Why Hosting Seller
On every plan, as standard
Written for the real buyer
The tests here come out of actual conversations with agencies wrapping hosting, updates and support into a single monthly retainer, not off a feature spreadsheet.
A refund without a gauntlet
If it does not suit, leaving is a request rather than a negotiation — which is why we are content to be tested.
Matched to this verdict
The Reseller 2 plan is this page's recommendation made concrete — one flat price, essentials included, upgradeable in place.
The essentials on the tag
SSL, migration, backups and mail come with every plan instead of appearing at checkout as extras.
A company you can look up
Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host with a public record you can read before trusting.
One price, plainly printed
The order price is the renewal price — the comparison that matters is the one we win without trying.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Write the requirement in one sentence
Put down what the site has to do and for whom — for agencies wrapping hosting, updates and support into a single monthly retainer, that one sentence usually settles half the plan choice by itself.
- 2
Price the second year, not the first
Teaser rates are this market's favourite trick, so compare hosts on what year two costs and the field reorders itself on the spot.
- 3
Try it inside the refund window
Order, move a real site across free, and use it properly for a fortnight — the daily experience is the product, and the window makes trying it cost nothing.
In the Box
Packed with every plan
- NVMe SSD storage on every shelf, not just the top one
- Site migration done for you by our staff, at no charge
- Real people on the counter, every hour of every day
- A 30-day money-back guarantee on every hosting plan
- A domain free for year one when you order annually
- A 99.9% uptime commitment, watched by monitoring day and night
- WordPress Toolkit, with updates applied for you
- SSH, Git and Composer on the plans built for developers
- Webmail in the browser plus IMAP, POP and SMTP for your own client
- PHP versions picked per site from the panel
Across the Counter
The questions we get asked most
What belongs in a care plan for the retainer to make sense?
Hosting, updates with a safe rollback, backup checks, a time-boxed allowance of small fixes, and a monthly report showing that all of it happened. The report is what gets the plan renewed, so it is the one item never to skip.
How many care-plan clients before reseller hosting pays for itself?
Two or three, on the arithmetic. The margin over separate accounts plus the hours saved by fleet tooling covers the reseller cost quickly, and every client added after that widens the gap further.
How do I pay, and does it bill again on its own?
Orders go through a secure checkout by credit or debit card, and the renewal is taken at the same price you first paid. Every invoice sits in the client area for you to read, and switching auto-renewal off is a toggle in your account rather than a phone call.
Can I bring a domain I already own?
Yes, and transfers in are routine. Unlock the name at your present registrar, collect the auth code, then start the transfer from your client area. Whatever registration time is left comes across with it, and DNS keeps answering the whole way through.
Is there a refund if it does not suit?
Yes — thirty days. Put the hosting through real work, and if it is not right, ask for the money back and you get it; there is no retention script to survive first. Domain registrations are the one carve-out, because registries take that fee the moment the name is placed.
Does the price climb when the term is up?
No. What you pay to order is what you pay to renew, year after year. We do not run teaser rates, so there is no year-two ambush waiting in the calendar, and your bookkeeping can treat the hosting line as a fixed number.
Is the SSL certificate genuinely free?
On every plan, with nothing held back. The certificate is issued the moment your domain points here and reissues itself well before expiry. The encryption is the same as a paid DV certificate — paid tiers exist only for wildcard coverage or organisation validation, which most sites never need.
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