I want to apply to be a reseller or affiliate for a hosting company. Who are the best companies with the best profit split to create a strategic partnership with? Thanks in advanced for your input!

Why? - not to sound rude, but knowing what your plans are, can help

Also, there is a HUGE difference between reselling and just being an affiliate.

1. An affiliate, is simply signing up, you get a code, you add it as a link on your site and you hope someone - clicks it, the code registers with the provider AND the person signs up with the host, then in a month or so, you get your cut

2. A reseller on the other hand has more control.
The person signs up with you, at your designated price and choice of plans and the host is essentially wholesaling the server space to you and you keep the difference.
Although you have more control, there is also more work to be done. You'll need a website, some kind of ecommerce set up and you will have to support these clients.

Any more questions, just ask....

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w. a reseller program, can you set up FTP logins or online control for each client?

Yes you can.
Generally you will get a master control panel, where you can set up all of your sub-accounts
Each sub-account gets their own control panel for managing their domain, which includes ftp accounts.

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If you are not technically strong and don't want to get involved in setting up account's and managing your customers accounts then signing up for reseller would be of no use rather make money by signing affiliate program and send your customers to signup our service and you will get your commission but you will have limited income from affiliates then that from reseller;

We provide our affiliates 20% commission for each sale, so if you are interested please visit WebHosting UK - Affiliate Program for signing our affiliate program;
What i will suggest you to signup our reseller hosting package and earn more by reselling hosting accounts, Please visit WebHosting UK - Cheap UK Reseller Hosting with Windows Plesk & Linux cPanel WHM to have a look at our reseller hosting package.
We do have Windows and Linux Reseller hosting packages starting from £9.99/mon (Linux) and £14.99/mon (Windows)
We also provide you 24*7 free technical support (Live chat + Phone support + Ticket system )


Feel free to contact me......

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