dadamssg87 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Is it illegal for me to obtain a hosting account from a company and then design a client's website and then charge them for me to host it onto my hosting account? Obviously the hosting provider would like to have each website have their own account. I'm wondering if it's legal or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 As long as it is not against the Hosts TOS, it should be fine. You are a paying customer and you can generally use it how you want as long as you obey the hosts TOS / AUP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylex Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Why not just get an actual reseller account? You can get a decent one for less than $20/month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadamssg87 Posted July 19, 2011 Author Share Posted July 19, 2011 hmm i never thought of that @xylex. I looked at hostgator's reseller program but i couldn't find the the how much money you make per hosting account sold... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 hmm i never thought of that @xylex. I looked at hostgator's reseller program but i couldn't find the the how much money you make per hosting account sold... You pay for the reseller account, a set fee. You can charge your customers whatever you want, and you take what you charged the customer(s) minus what you paid and that's how much you make off of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadamssg87 Posted July 19, 2011 Author Share Posted July 19, 2011 oh wow...thats awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 yeah...it's not illegal as in against the law, but a most hosts have it against their ToS to do something like that...that's why they have separate "reseller" plans, specifically for that purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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