Reseller web hosting for small businesses

Sole traders, local businesses, clubs and charities, plus web designers who want hosting looked after for their clients.

Monthly or yearly hosting fees, domain registration and renewals, and optional extras such as email setup, site migration or basic maintenance.

• Comfortable with control panels and basic server settings
• Clear, patient customer support
• Basic billing and record keeping

• You rely on your upstream provider, so check their reliability and what happens if they have an outage
• UK GDPR duties for customer data, and whether you need to pay the ICO data protection fee
• Check professional indemnity or cyber insurance, as customers may blame you if their site goes down or is hacked
• Out-of-hours support expectations, so be clear about response times in your terms
• Domain registration rules, including how renewals and transfers work with your registrar

Startup costs are typically around £100 to £500, depending on the reseller plan you choose and any branding or billing tools. These are estimates, so check your provider's pricing before setting your own.

Monthly revenue is typically around £150 to £1,000, depending on how many customers you sign up and what you charge. That is revenue, not profit, as your upstream plan costs come out of it.

Check your upstream provider's reliability and what happens in an outage. Also check UK GDPR duties and whether you must pay the ICO data protection fee, professional indemnity or cyber insurance, and how domain renewals and transfers work with your registrar.