Buyer's Guide
Weighing up reseller hosting for agencies
A straight answer for web agencies turning finished client sites into income that arrives every month: how to weigh the options, what to leave on the shelf, and the setup we would order.
Straight answer first
If you read one paragraph only, the right pick is a WHM reseller plan matched to the length of your client list — Reseller 1 carries the first hundred accounts under your own name.
Everything below unpacks that recommendation: the tests to apply, the classic mistake, and how to check any of it for yourself before spending a penny.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026
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This guide is written for web agencies turning finished client sites into income that arrives every month. If that describes you, the decision has a right answer — it just is not the one the comparison-table trade is paid to hand out.
One market fact frames the whole thing: reselling rewrites an agency's arithmetic — a build worth a single invoice becomes a subscriber worth a margin every month, and clients whose hosting you hold are famously slow to go anywhere else.
The handful of checks that matter
Here is the scorecard we would use — and the one we invite you to hold us to:
WHM at the top with a separate cPanel account per client — one customer's mess stays that customer's own.
White labelling all the way down, private nameservers on your own brand included.
Room to oversell, so you set your own price tags rather than reciting ours.
Per-account resource limits, so a runaway site is one client's afternoon instead of everybody's.
Read this before you compare price tags
Parking client sites as addon domains inside one shared account, where a single hack or suspension takes your whole book of business down together.
Once you know to look for it, you can see it right across this market — and dodging it matters more than optimising any other number on the page.
The verdict, plainly
A WHM reseller plan matched to the length of your client list — Reseller 1 carries the first hundred accounts under your own name.
In concrete terms, that is our Reseller 1 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.
Mailboxes on your own domain are part of the plan, never an add-on sold back to you at checkout.
The homework worth doing first
Run the same checks on us as on anybody else: message support before you pay and see who answers, hold the renewal price against the order price, read the refund terms end to end, and look the company up — ours is Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales, and the record is public.
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.
Why we can afford to give a straight answer
Most 'best hosting' writing is paid ranking. Ours has a simpler motive: we recommend the setup we would sell you anyway, and we say so — which leaves the rest of the page free to be genuinely useful.
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
NVMe and LiteSpeed as standard
The performance kit other hosts reserve for premium tiers is simply how our plans are built.
One price, plainly printed
The order price is the renewal price — the comparison that matters is the one we win without trying.
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.
The essentials on the tag
SSL, migration, backups and mail come with every plan instead of appearing at checkout as extras.
A real ladder to climb
Shared, VPS and dedicated all under one roof — today's choice never boxes you in tomorrow.
Written for the real buyer
The tests here come out of actual conversations with web agencies turning finished client sites into income that arrives every month, not off a feature spreadsheet.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Write the requirement in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon of feature-table comparison, so write it before you go shopping.
- 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
A live trial with your own site answers what no review can, and the free migration plus the refund policy make that trial genuinely risk-free.
In the Box
Packed with every plan
- Upgrades apply to the account in place, with no move between plans
- cPanel, the panel the rest of the trade already knows
- A free SSL certificate on every plan, reissued before it lapses
- Spam and virus filtering fitted to every mailbox
- One-click installs for WordPress and 400+ other applications
- PHP versions picked per site from the panel
- Webmail in the browser plus IMAP, POP and SMTP for your own client
- The renewal price printed on the tag matches the order price
- A domain free for year one when you order annually
- WordPress Toolkit, with updates applied for you
Across the Counter
The questions we get asked most
What should an agency be charging clients for hosting?
Charge the going rate for looking after a site, not your cost price. £15-30 a month bundled with updates and small fixes is normal. What the client is buying is somebody answerable when it breaks, not gigabytes on a shelf.
What happens when a client parts company with the agency?
Their cPanel account moves out cleanly, because it was kept separate from day one. A tidy exit protects your name in a small industry, and that separation is exactly what makes it tidy.
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.
Are backups included, and can I put one back myself?
A backup is taken daily on every plan, and the restore is yours to run from the panel in minutes — files, databases or both, at three in the morning without waiting on a ticket. Keeping your own copy offsite as well is never a bad habit, and nothing here stops you.
How quickly can I be up and running?
Minutes, not days. The account opens the moment the order clears, the domain — free for year one on annual plans — attaches straight away, and the one-click installer puts WordPress or any of 400+ applications on the page before you leave your chair. Already have a site elsewhere? Hand it over and we move it free, usually inside a day.
How do I read the mail when I am away from the desk?
Webmail opens in any browser, and every mailbox also speaks IMAP, POP and SMTP — so the mail app on your phone, the client on your desktop and webmail all show the same messages in the same order.
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.
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