Nightmare stories abound from web site owners who made mistake of casually signing off their e-commerce operations to mercies of poor hosting services. Still proliferation of hosting services has had good effect of dramatically bringing down prices.

Still, obvious disadvantage of low prices on other hand has been that it has kept away many real professional companies from entering industry. This has meant that services from many companies have remained poor and below acceptable standards.

However, just like in any other business, one needs to be cautious and to be very much aware of exactly what they are doing.

The first and most important thing you need to do is find a reliable web hosting service. And that host also needs to have a good reseller program. There are not too many around that have this ideal combination but they are there, if you know where to look.

A reliable web host will mean that clients you sign up will not run into problems and in case they do, host must be able to provide proper customer service and respond quickly to any technical problems. This is very important because your reseller business will grow much faster if your current customers are able to refer others. Or if you can refer prospective customers to a portfolio of satisfied current clients.

You will be able to earn more with hosts that already have reseller programs as they will already have good packages on offer that you need to pay very little for and yet have high revenue potential with. Some reseller programs are specifically designed so that resellers are able to enter web hosting business with very low overheads.