Before we can begin to explain the reseller web hosting scenario, we should first visit probably the most used web hosting solution available on the market, shared web hosting. Most that are new to the web plan arena don’t realize that the cheap packages that are advertised for $10 and under are normally running in a “shared” environment. So, what is this sharing all about? Well, basically, several users are sharing the hardware and resources – basically many clients (unknown to each other) are running on the same server.If you thought that when you purchased a hosting plan that you were on your own server, think again. It’s simply more economical for hosting providers to have client shared services and hardware. And, usually this doesn’t run into any particular problems. Every once in a while, one of the clients may goof up a script and optimize the servers resources for an extended amount of time – causing obvious “lag” issues for the other clients also using that server. But, the top web hosting providers have monitoring tools that can easily sense this and quickly bring the notorious script to a halt. Believe me, it’s happened to me a few times, albeit totally unintentionally.So, again, shared web hosting isn’t that bad for the personal website, perhaps a low trafficked blog or something small. But, for a business website, especially if your main focus is selling products online, a dedicated web server (yes, it is entirely your server as the name indicates) is the only way to go.With a dedicated server, your web pages will be much more responsive to your future web visitors and you need not worry about other business owners (or small personal website owners) optimizing your resources. You are, for the most part, in full control. Monitoring the web servers performance is still needed (as with any hosting plan), but whatever resources are dominated, you are responsible.Okay, so, let us take the dedicated web server one step further. Let us create a scenario whereas you purchase a large web hosting package for your small, medium or large business and find that your site is barely hitting the minimums for resource optimization. You still gain the benefits of control over the server services, but also have the ability to lease out some resources to other businesses and “resell” the web hosting. You could have a $75 reseller web hosting plan and lease a small portion to each of your 5-10 clients and thereby have your entire web hosting bill paid for. Additionally, you could buy larger reseller packages and (after little marketing & promotion) resell 100% of the resources and make a nice little profit each month.Yes, with the reseller web hosting, there are a few questions you need to respond to from time to time, but most of the responsibility is handed by Your hosting provider. You simply only need to enter the server control panel and setup the new accounts. Then, your work is done. Basically, you are selling virtual real estate.