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Reseller guides
Everything you need to start and run a web hosting business in South Africa: how reseller hosting works, pricing, WHM and cPanel, WHMCS billing, payments, branding and growth.
- Guide 1How reseller hosting worksReseller hosting lets you sell web hosting under your own brand. How the model works, who does what, and what you need to start in South Africa.
- Guide 2How to start a web hosting businessA step-by-step plan to start a web hosting business in South Africa with reseller hosting: niche, brand, plan, packages, billing, payments and first clients.
- Guide 3Reseller vs master reseller hostingReseller hosting lets you sell cPanel accounts; master reseller lets you sell reseller accounts too. Which level fits your hosting business in South Africa.
- Guide 4How to price your hosting plansWork out your cost per client, set a margin, and build hosting packages that sell in South Africa: pricing rules, bundles and mistakes to avoid as a reseller.
- Guide 5Choosing a reseller planHow much disk space, how many cPanel accounts and which level you need: a practical way to choose your first reseller hosting plan in South Africa.
- Guide 6WHM and cPanel explainedWHM is your reseller control panel; cPanel is what each client uses. What you can do in each, and the WHM tasks you will use every week.
- Guide 7Creating hosting packages in WHMCreate the hosting packages you sell to clients in WHM: disk space, bandwidth, email accounts, databases and addon domains, with sensible limits.
- Guide 8White-label branding for your hosting businessMake your reseller hosting fully yours: private nameservers like ns1.yourbrand, your logo in cPanel, branded WHMCS and email. How to set each one up.
- Guide 9Billing your hosting clients with WHMCSWHMCS automates orders, invoices, reminders, account creation and suspensions for hosting resellers. How it connects to WHM and how to set it up.
- Guide 10Taking payments from your hosting clientsHow hosting resellers in South Africa collect payments: card and EFT, automated through WHMCS, with invoices, reminders and renewals.
- Guide 11Selling domains as a hosting resellerAdd domain registration to your hosting business: resell .co.za and global domains under your brand with a prepaid balance and a WHMCS registrar module.
- Guide 12Moving clients to your reseller accountBring existing websites and cPanel accounts to your Hostnali reseller account: free migration, how it works, and how to avoid downtime and lost email.
- Guide 13Supporting your hosting clientsAs a reseller you are the first line of support. How to set up support, the questions you will get most, and when to bring in our team.
- Guide 14Growing your hosting businessFind and keep hosting clients in South Africa: referrals, partnerships with web designers, bundles, care plans and habits that keep clients.
Start your hosting business
White-label reseller hosting with WHM, cPanel for every client and 24/7 support.