Sell hosting to the market you already understand

An affiliate points a customer at us, then takes a cut of whatever we invoice that customer; the relationship and the support stay on our side. A partner takes the lot. You buy capacity, price it however you want, bill your own customers under your own brand, and answer their first support question yourself. Affiliate income is a slice that arrives without you doing much. Partner income is a hosting business you actually run, on our platform, with the full margin left in your pocket. Anyone already building or looking after client sites tends to earn more this way.

Only if you decide to tell them. The private nameservers are yours, the control panel wears your brand, and every invoice goes out with your name on it. One detail deserves honesty though: the machines sit in London, so any customer who bothers to look up where their site lives will see a UK location. That is geography rather than a leak in your branding, and almost nobody ever checks.

Plenty of our partners arrive as freelance web designers or small agencies. They build sites already, and they are tired of sending clients somewhere else whenever hosting comes up. The technical part is gentler than people expect: account creation and resource limits live in WHM, cPanel is the panel your clients have probably used before, and provisioning means filling in a form, not racking a server. Pricing and managing what customers expect from support are the awkward bits. Neither is technology, and we will happily work through both with you before you sign anything.

The table above does the arithmetic. What it shows is that earnings track how much you bundle, not how cheap you are willing to go. Resell hosting on its own with a thin markup and you get a small recurring income, nothing more. Wrap it into a site-care retainer instead, with updates, backups and a support promise attached, and the numbers change, because now you are billing for taking responsibility rather than for disk space. Fifteen clients on a care plan pays a real monthly income. Fifteen clients on bare hosting is pocket money.

Wherever our own selling falls flat, which covers most of the world. The UK and Europe are already our strong ground. What we would really like is partners across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America, because the language, the payment methods and the local trust sit with you and not with us. Geography brings one caveat we will not hide: the servers live in London. Latency is excellent across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, workable in the Americas and South Asia if you lean on caching, and honestly poor for Australia and East Asia. Read our infrastructure page first, then choose your market with that in mind.

Yes, and we don't charge for it. The thing that keeps most people stuck on a platform they dislike is the thought of shifting an existing client book, so we run the migrations alongside you instead of pointing you at a guide. Tell us what you're running and where it sits at the moment. We will plan the move so your clients notice no downtime and you lose no weekend to it.

First-line support goes to your own customers. Market the service honestly. Don't push overselling so far that the people on those accounts start to feel it. Your prices and your brand are not ours to police. What we do ask is that you avoid saying things about our infrastructure that simply are not so, because your reputation and ours are tied together, and a customer sold on the idea of a local datacentre will end up annoyed with you and with us.