If you want to earn money from hosting, you may come across two common options: reseller hosting and affiliate hosting programs.
Both can help you earn money from web hosting, but they work very differently.
The easiest way to remember the difference is this, with reseller hosting, you provide hosting to your customers. With an affiliate program, you refer customers to us.
What Is Reseller Hosting?
Reseller hosting lets you create and manage hosting accounts for your own customers.
You purchase a reseller hosting plan from us and divide its resources among your customers. You can create your own hosting packages, set your own prices, and use your own business name and branding.
Your customers pay you, and you manage the relationship with them. We handle the servers, network, and underlying hosting infrastructure.
What Is an Affiliate Hosting Program?
Our affiliate hosting program is much simpler.
Instead of providing hosting yourself, you send someone to DataPacket using your affiliate link. If they become a customer, you earn a recurring commission from the referral.
The customer signs up directly with us. We handle their hosting, billing, and support.
You don’t need to create their account, collect payments, or manage their hosting service.
Reseller Hosting vs. Affiliate Hosting
Here’s the basic difference:
| Reseller Hosting | Affiliate Program | |
|---|---|---|
| Customer buys from | You | DataPacket |
| You set the price | Yes | No |
| Your own branding | Yes | No |
| You manage customers | Yes | No |
| You handle billing | Yes | No |
| You earn | Your own profit | Affiliate commission |
Reseller hosting gives you more control, but it also gives you more responsibility.
An affiliate program requires much less work, but the person you refer becomes our customer rather than yours.
Which One Makes More Sense?
If you want to provide hosting under your own business name, set your own prices, or manage hosting for your existing clients, reseller hosting is usually the better fit.
If you simply want to recommend DataPacket without managing hosting accounts or customer billing, an affiliate program is easier.
You can also use both. For example, a web designer might use reseller hosting for clients they actively manage while using an affiliate link for people who want to purchase and manage their own hosting.
The choice really comes down to one question:
Do you want to provide the hosting, or do you just want to recommend it?
Once you know the answer to that, choosing between reseller hosting and an affiliate program becomes pretty simple.
