Reseller hosting is a form of
web hosting wherein the account owner has the ability to use his or her allotted
hard drive space and
bandwidth to host websites on behalf of third parties. The reseller purchases the host's services
wholesale and then sells them to customers, possibly for a profit. A certain portion of hard drive space and bandwidth is allocated to the reseller account. The reseller may
rent a dedicated server from a hosting company, or resell shared hosting services. In the latter case, the reseller is simply given the permission to sell a certain amount of disk space and bandwidth to their own customers without renting a server from a web hosting company they signed for a reseller
account with.