Reseller hosting is one shared account split into many cPanel accounts that you sell under your own brand. The arithmetic that decides which plan to buy is not the monthly price — it is the price per cPanel account and the storage per account. On those two numbers the cheapest headline in this market is not the cheapest plan.
Last updated: 23 September 2026. Competitor figures were read from their own public pages on 23 September 2026 and are linked to their source. Disclosure: this page is published by BIGBANG ITS FZE, which sells reseller hosting. Where a competitor is better on a specific measure, it says so.
What reseller hosting actually gives you
You buy one parent account. Inside it you create cPanel accounts for your clients, each with its own login, quota and mail. What makes it “reseller” rather than just a big hosting plan is four things:
- WHM — the control panel above cPanel, where you create accounts, set packages and suspend non-payers.
- White labelling — your clients see your brand, not your supplier’s.
- Your own nameservers — ns1.yourbrand.com rather than your supplier’s.
- Packages you define — you decide what 5 GB costs, not your supplier.
What it does not give you is isolation. Every account shares one server’s CPU, memory and I/O, so one badly written client site can slow the others. That is the single most important operational fact about reselling, and it is the reason plans quote RAM and cores rather than just disk.
Reseller plans compared (prices as of 2026-09-23)
Ordered from the cheapest advertised price. The last two columns are the ones that actually decide it.
| Provider and plan | Advertised | Ongoing | cPanel accounts | Storage | Per account | GB per account |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MilesWeb Lite | USD 3.99/mo on 3 years | USD 8.99/mo, published | 5 | 5 GB NVMe | USD 1.80 | 1.0 |
| MilesWeb Beginner | USD 5.99/mo on 3 years | USD 12.99/mo, published | 10 | 10 GB NVMe | USD 1.30 | 1.0 |
| BIGBANG ITS Reseller Ignite | USD 11.99/mo | USD 11.99/mo — locked for 36 months | 10 | 40 GB NVMe | USD 1.20 | 4.0 |
| BIGBANG ITS Reseller Boost | USD 24.99/mo | USD 24.99/mo | 25 | 80 GB NVMe | USD 1.00 | 3.2 |
| BIGBANG ITS Reseller Blast | USD 44.95/mo | USD 44.95/mo | 50 | 150 GB NVMe | USD 0.90 | 3.0 |
| AEserver Silver | AED 210/mo (≈USD 57.18), was AED 249 | Not published | 10 | 100 GB | USD 5.72 | 10.0 |
| BIGBANG ITS Reseller Orbit | USD 78.99/mo | USD 78.99/mo | 100 | 300 GB NVMe | USD 0.79 | 3.0 |
| AEserver Gold | AED 380/mo (≈USD 103.47), was AED 449 | Not published | Not published on the plan card | Not published on the plan card | — | — |
Prices as of 2026-09-23, converted at AED 3.6725 per US dollar. “Per account” uses the ongoing price where one is published and the advertised price otherwise. Our plans also include 2 GB RAM and 2 cores on Ignite, rising to 8 GB and 8 cores on Orbit.
Three things fall out of that table:
- MilesWeb has the lowest entry price and the least storage per client — 1 GB per account. That is enough for a brochure site and tight for anything with media.
- AEserver has by far the most storage per account at 10 GB, and by far the highest cost per account at about USD 5.72. It is selling a different product: fewer, better-resourced clients on UAE infrastructure.
- Cost per account falls as you scale on any provider. Ours goes from USD 1.20 to USD 0.79 between 10 and 100 accounts, which is the whole economic argument for growing a reseller book.
Does reselling actually make money?
Here is the arithmetic, using our Ignite plan at USD 11.99 and a conservative retail price.
| Clients | You charge each | Monthly revenue | Your plan cost | Gross margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | USD 10/mo | USD 30 | USD 11.99 (Ignite) | USD 18.01 |
| 10 | USD 10/mo | USD 100 | USD 11.99 (Ignite, full) | USD 88.01 |
| 25 | USD 10/mo | USD 250 | USD 24.99 (Boost) | USD 225.01 |
| 100 | USD 10/mo | USD 1,000 | USD 78.99 (Orbit) | USD 921.01 |
Illustrative, using our published plan prices as of 2026-09-23 and a USD 10 retail price. It excludes your time, which is the real cost.
The margin looks extraordinary because it ignores the part that actually costs money: support. A hosting client generates a few tickets a year — email not sending, a broken plugin, a certificate question — and at ten clients that is a nuisance while at a hundred it is a job. Price for the support, not for the disk.
How to price your own plans
- Work backwards from cost per account, not from your total bill. On Ignite each account costs you USD 1.20; anything above about USD 8 retail leaves room for support time.
- Do not sell “unlimited” anything. You are on a shared parent account with finite RAM and cores. Sell defined quotas, and put them in writing.
- Charge annually where you can. It halves your billing admin and your churn.
- Price the migration separately. Moving an existing site is real work and clients expect it free if you do not say otherwise.
- Keep a reserve account. Filling every slot means the next sale forces an upgrade on the wrong day.
When to stop reselling and buy a server
Reseller hosting stops being the right shape at a predictable point:
- When one client needs root — a custom PHP module, a queue worker, anything outside cPanel.
- When one client’s traffic hurts the others. On a shared parent account you cannot isolate them, only suspend them.
- When you exceed roughly 50 to 80 active accounts, at which point a VPS from USD 8.90 a month with your own WHM licence, or a dedicated server from USD 164.90, usually costs less per account and gives you control over the resource limits.
- When a client demands UAE data residency. Our servers are available in Dubai, Europe, the USA and India, so ask us for the Dubai location before you sign, not after.
Our practical walkthrough of starting the business itself is in how to start a reseller hosting business in the UAE.
Our reseller plans, cheapest first
| Plan | Monthly | Annually | cPanel accounts | Storage | RAM / cores |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reseller Ignite | USD 11.99 | USD 143.88 | 10 | 40 GB NVMe | 2 GB / 2 |
| Reseller Boost | USD 24.99 | USD 299.88 | 25 | 80 GB NVMe | 4 GB / 4 |
| Reseller Blast | USD 44.95 | USD 539.40 | 50 | 150 GB NVMe | 6 GB / 6 |
| Reseller Orbit | USD 78.99 | USD 947.88 | 100 | 300 GB NVMe | 8 GB / 8 |
Prices as of 2026-09-23 from the BIGBANG ITS store. Every plan includes white-label hosting, a brandable WHM, cPanel for your clients, LiteSpeed with LSCache, free SSL certificates, unlimited bandwidth, and unlimited mailboxes and databases. Details on our reseller hosting page, and our partner terms on the reseller programme page.
Where AEserver and MilesWeb beat us
- AEserver gives 10 GB per client account against our 4 GB, offers a Dubai data centre we do not have at this tier, includes cPanel, CloudLinux and anti-spam licences in the price, and states plainly that it will never contact your clients. If your clients are media-heavy or need UAE residency, that is the better product even at five times our cost per account.
- MilesWeb is cheaper to start, publishes its renewal price on the card, and its 30-day money-back guarantee covers reseller plans, while we offer a partial refund on selected services only, stated at order time. If you are testing whether reselling suits you before committing, that combination is hard to argue with.
Five mistakes that end a reseller business
These are the ones we see, in the order they usually happen:
- Selling “unlimited” on a shared parent account. You have finite RAM, cores and I/O. Sell quotas you can actually honour, and write them into the client agreement.
- Pricing off the plan cost instead of the support cost. The disk is almost free; the tickets are not. A client paying USD 5 a month who emails twice a month is a loss.
- Not taking payment before provisioning. Hosting is billed in advance for a reason. Automate the invoice and the suspension, or you will be chasing balances instead of selling.
- Using your supplier’s nameservers. The day you change supplier, every client has to change DNS — and every one of those conversations is a chance for them to leave.
- Keeping no headroom. Filling the last cPanel slot means the next sale forces an unplanned upgrade, usually in the middle of a migration.
A sixth, quieter one: not knowing where your supplier’s servers are. If a client’s contract names a jurisdiction and you cannot answer, you lose the client and the reputation at the same time.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is reseller hosting?
One parent hosting account that you divide into separate cPanel accounts and sell to your own clients under your own brand. You get WHM to create and manage those accounts, white labelling so your supplier is invisible, and your own nameservers. Your clients get an ordinary cPanel account and never see who actually runs the server.
How much does reseller hosting cost in the UAE?
As of 23 September 2026, from USD 3.99 a month with MilesWeb on a three-year term, renewing at a published USD 8.99, up to AED 210 a month with AEserver. Our Reseller Ignite is USD 11.99 a month flat for 10 cPanel accounts and 40 GB of NVMe, with no introductory rate and the price locked for 36 months, with 30 days’ notice before any increase.
Which reseller plan is cheapest per client account?
Cost per account falls as the plan grows. On the published prices here, our Orbit plan is the lowest at about USD 0.79 per account per month, followed by Blast at USD 0.90 and Boost at USD 1.00. MilesWeb’s Beginner works out at about USD 1.30 at its renewal rate, and AEserver’s Silver at about USD 5.72 — but with ten times the storage per account.
Do I need my own nameservers?
Not technically, but you should. Pointing clients at ns1.yourbrand.com rather than your supplier’s nameservers is what makes the white labelling actually work, and it means you can change supplier later without asking every client to update their DNS.
Can one bad client slow down the others?
Yes. All accounts on a reseller plan share one server’s CPU, memory and I/O, and resource limits apply to the parent account. That is why plans quote RAM and cores, why “unlimited” reselling is a bad promise to make, and why heavy clients eventually belong on their own VPS.
When should I move from reseller hosting to a VPS?
When a client needs root access, when one site’s load is affecting the others, or at roughly 50 to 80 active accounts. At that point a VPS from USD 8.90 a month with your own WHM licence usually costs less per account and lets you set the resource limits yourself.
Is reseller hosting profitable?
The gross margin is high — ten clients at USD 10 a month on a USD 11.99 plan is USD 88 of monthly gross. The net margin depends entirely on support load, which grows with client count rather than with revenue. Price for the tickets you will answer, not for the disk you are buying.
Do reseller plans include a UAE data centre?
Ours are available in Dubai, Europe, the USA and India, arranged on request. AEserver’s reseller plans are on its Dubai infrastructure. MilesWeb states “US server location” across its plans. If a client contract requires UAE residency, check that before you take the client, not after.
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