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Posted by stevesteve, 11-17-2003, 06:27 PM
Hi Does some one offer that or do I need a dedicated server to achieve that? If I'm your reseller will I be able to sell a reseller options? and if yes will I be able to make my own reselling planes. like for example I have WHM will I be able to sell other WHM to someone and limit him to sell only 50 domains and only 500mb disk space I now that I can do this from my WHM to limit his cPanel but that is not what I wan to do I want my resellers also to have WHM and them planes to be for example only 50 domains and only 500 disk space can I do that? Thanks Sorry about my English I hope you understand what I mean. Regards Steve
Posted by Odd Fact, 11-17-2003, 06:54 PM
In the main forums users can only make recommendations. If you want specific offers with pricing and details you will need to post a request in the Shared and Reseller Hosting Requests forum. I do remember one of the host here offering the ability to resell reseelr accounts under WHM.
Posted by Daryl, 11-17-2003, 06:56 PM
Generally cPanel doesnt allow resellers to resell accounts but as <> had mentioned some hosting companies have their own control panel or a control panel that allows resellers to resell accounts
Posted by stevesteve, 11-17-2003, 07:17 PM
Sorry odd fact I did not mean to ask for quote or offers. My attend was some body just to recommend some host that do offer that. I Just straggle to explain myself with my English
Posted by cyberultra, 11-17-2003, 08:25 PM
I saw at cPanel forums there's somebody trying develope a system like this for cPanel. Seems that he didn't success And I remember somebody in this forum just said that this is "possible" under cPanel, anybody got any idea how to do that? By applying a patch or something?
Posted by Dan L, 11-17-2003, 08:36 PM
I remember likewise, but at the time didn't know enough to read it.
Posted by Alex042, 11-18-2003, 12:21 PM
From what I've seen, some hosts will set up reseller accounts for resellers who resell them. You may also be able to use the same API (or whatever you want to call it) some programs like WHMAP use to auto create accounts.
Posted by trustedurl.com, 11-18-2003, 01:02 PM
It's possible this way: create the resold account (for Jack) give ownership to the current reseller (Joe). now both have WHM access and Joe can log into his WHM and change the password for Jack. Then log in as Jack when stuff needs to be done. There is a script that (used to?) allow creation of resellers by resellers... but it's just a bad idea imho to do this. You'll get resellers who have resellers who have resellers who in turn are resellers (of you? lol)
Posted by Odd Fact, 11-18-2003, 02:35 PM
Here a few host that allow reselling reseller accounts. http://www.PlanetsHosting.com http://www.allabouthosting.co.uk http://www.xione.net/ Try contactting them for more information.
Posted by centrahost, 11-19-2003, 11:45 PM
Reminds of an old STD jingle. I got it from Sandy who got it from Paul, Paul got it from Ernestine who coulda got it anywhere at all.
Posted by IHSL, 11-20-2003, 12:03 AM
Even if host's do offer it, I'd advise against it. If you're serious about a business, and wish to offer reseller, aswell as shared accounts, the least you could do for your customers is have your own box. The situation you get into, by being a reseller's reseller, is you have NO control over some accounts that are on the same server as your resellers users.. So, let's say you get a reseller account from a reseller of abc123host.. All of a sudden, your reseller notices that some of his users accounts are lagging... so, he contacts you, and reports the problem. you then check the other accounts on your server, and notice that none of them are causing the problem either. So, then you have to go contact your reseller account provider, and ask them to check their shared users, resellers, and resellers of resellers accounts... As you can see, it would probably prove to be more of a hassle than is worth it, especially as you can get yourself a managed dedicated server for $400-$800 per month
Posted by centrahost, 11-20-2003, 12:14 AM
I don't think he ever mentioned 3 levels. Meaning a reseller to reseller to reseller. Tha's kinda of a crazy notion. Two is done very nicely in cPanel. We have done it for more than 4 years. IHSL uses Hsphere and Hsphere has a pretty sophisticated nested reseller system. You might want to check it out.
Posted by IHSL, 11-20-2003, 12:31 AM
To add to centrahost's comment.. http://www.psoft.net is the hsphere developers site Last edited by IHSL; 11-20-2003 at 02:24 AM.
Posted by Aussie Bob, 11-20-2003, 02:16 AM
We supply WHM [Reseller] accounts to our clients, who resell them to their clients. It's not a perfect solution, as our client's client is 2 steps away from the source of end support, and our client's client's client is 3 steps away. But it works pretty good. Not all folks can afford a ded server, and reselling reseller accounts is not a bad step up to that level.
Posted by mdrussell, 11-20-2003, 03:26 AM
We use a similar system. Whilst it's not the best solution in the world, it's preferable to resellers selling reseller accounts - this simply adds another in another tier and could no doubt cause a lot of confusion. Confusion often results with problems - never a good thing.
Posted by MACK Hosting, 11-25-2003, 01:21 AM
Can you guys tell me how you set it up so that your reseller can also resell accounts?
Posted by centrahost, 11-25-2003, 03:23 AM
It is an automated feature reserved exclusively for our Power Reseller clients.

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