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How to choose: reseller hosting for agencies
A straight answer for web agencies turning client sites into recurring revenue: how to judge the options, what to skip, and the setup we'd recommend.
The short answer
If you only read one paragraph: the right pick is a WHM reseller plan sized to your client count — Reseller 1 carries the first hundred accounts under your own brand.
Everything below unpacks that recommendation — the judging criteria, the classic mistake, and how to verify any of it yourself before spending a pound.
Written by the HostingAlly team · Last revised 27 July 2026
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This guide is written for web agencies turning client sites into recurring revenue. If that's you, the decision has a right answer — it just isn't the one the comparison-table industry is paid to give you.
One market fact frames everything here: agency reselling transforms unit economics — a build client worth one invoice becomes a subscriber worth a monthly margin indefinitely, and churn on hosted clients is famously low.
The four tests that matter
Here's the scorecard we'd use — and the one we invite you to hold us to:
WHM control with isolated cPanel accounts per client — one client's mess never touches another.
White-label everything, including private nameservers under your brand.
Overselling flexibility to price plans your way.
Per-client resource controls that make one runaway site a contained event.
Read this before comparing prices
Hosting client sites as addon domains on one shared account — one hack or suspension takes every client down together.
Once you know to look for it, it's visible everywhere in this market — and avoiding it matters more than optimising any other variable on the page.
The verdict
A WHM reseller plan sized to your client count — Reseller 1 carries the first hundred accounts under your own brand.
Concretely, that's our Reseller 1 option — priced flat, stocked with the essentials (SSL, migration, backups, email) that this market loves to sell separately, and upgradeable in place when your needs move.
Business email on your own domain is included, not sold back as an add-on.
The due-diligence checklist
Run the same tests on us as on anyone: message support before paying and see who answers, compare the renewal price to the signup price, read the refund terms end to end, and look the company up — ours is Fairdeal Renovations Limited, registered in England and Wales, and the record is public.
The refund window then covers the rest — move a real site (the free migration makes that painless), live with it for a fortnight, and let the daily experience make the decision the marketing pages can't.
Why our advice can afford to be honest
Most 'best hosting' content is paid ranking. Ours has a simpler incentive: we recommend the setup we'd sell you anyway, and we say so — which frees the rest of the page to be actually useful.
Business email on your own domain is included, not sold back as an add-on.
- Criteria you can test yourself
- Renewal prices printed, not footnoted
- Free migration makes trials painless
- A refund policy without traps
Why HostingAlly
Every plan includes this, whatever you pay
NVMe + LiteSpeed standard
The performance stack that premium tiers elsewhere charge for is simply how our plans ship.
Flat, honest pricing
The signup price is the renewal price — the comparison that matters is the one we win by default.
A refund policy without a gauntlet
If it doesn't fit, leaving is a request — which is exactly why we're comfortable being tested.
The essentials included
SSL, migration, backups and email ship with every plan instead of appearing at checkout as extras.
A real upgrade ladder
Shared to VPS to dedicated under one roof — the choice you make today never boxes you in.
Written for the actual buyer
The criteria here come from real conversations with web agencies turning client sites into recurring revenue — not from a feature spreadsheet.
Getting Started
How to get going
- 1
Define the requirement in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon of feature-table comparison — write it before shopping.
- 2
Price year two, not year one
Teaser rates are this market's favourite trick — compare hosts on what year two costs and the field reorders itself instantly.
- 3
Test inside the refund window
A live trial with your actual site answers what no review can — and our free migration plus refund policy make the trial genuinely risk-free.
Included
What's covered on our plans
- Upgrades apply in place — no migrations between plans
- cPanel — the industry-standard control panel
- Free SSL certificate on every plan, renewed automatically
- Spam and virus filtering on every mailbox
- One-click installer for WordPress and 400+ apps
- Per-site PHP version selection
- Webmail plus IMAP, POP and SMTP access
- Renewal prices that match signup prices
- Free domain for the first year on annual plans
- WordPress Toolkit with automatic updates
FAQ
Your questions, answered
What should an agency charge clients for hosting?
Market rate for managed care, not your cost — £15-30/month bundled with updates and small fixes is standard. Clients pay for accountability, not gigabytes; you're selling 'it's handled'.
What happens when a client leaves the agency?
Their cPanel account transfers cleanly — it's isolated by design. Professional exits protect your reputation, and isolation is what makes them painless.
Is there a money-back guarantee?
Yes — try the hosting properly and if it doesn't fit, the refund process is a request, not a retention gauntlet. Domain registrations are the one standard carve-out, since registries make those non-refundable the moment they're placed.
Are backups included, and can I restore them myself?
Daily automatic backups are standard, restorable from the panel in minutes — files, databases or both, at 3am without a ticket if that's when you need it. For extra cover, you're welcome to run your own offsite copies alongside.
How long does it take to get started?
Minutes — hosting activates on payment, the domain (free for year one on annual plans) connects immediately, and one-click installers put WordPress or 400+ other apps live the same sitting. If you have an existing site, our team migrates it free, usually within 24 hours.
How do I read my email away from my desk?
Webmail works from any browser, and every mailbox also supports IMAP, POP and SMTP — so your phone's mail app, desktop client and webmail all see the same messages.
Do prices go up at renewal?
No — the price you sign up at is the price you renew at. We don't run teaser-rate economics, so there's no year-two ambush to plan around, and your bookkeeping can rely on the number staying put.
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Fast NVMe hosting, free SSL and migration, and real people on support around the clock — at prices that stay put.
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