Unlimited reseller hosting lets you create as many cPanel hosting accounts as you like for your clients, but every plan still has a fixed amount of storage and bandwidth. For a UK reseller, the useful questions are how much storage and bandwidth you get, whether the service is white label, where the servers sit in relation to your UK clients and what support you get. This guide explains each one.
What reseller hosting is
A reseller hosting plan gives you a share of a server and the tools to divide it into separate hosting accounts. You sell those accounts to your own clients, under your own brand and at your own prices. The hosting company runs the hardware, the network and the server software. You handle your clients. For a full introduction, read what reseller hosting is.
Most reseller plans use two control panels:
- WHM (Web Host Manager) is where you, the reseller, create hosting packages and client accounts.
- cPanel is what each client logs in to, to manage their own website files, email and databases.
What “unlimited” actually means
In reseller hosting, “unlimited” almost always refers to the number of cPanel accounts you can create. It does not mean unlimited disk space or traffic. Your total storage and monthly bandwidth are set by the plan, and every client account draws from that pool.
So if your plan has 60 GB of storage, you could host 60 small sites using 1 GB each, or 6 larger sites using 10 GB each. The account limit is not the constraint. Storage and bandwidth are.
When you compare plans, read past the word “unlimited” and check:
- Total storage, and whether it is NVMe or older SSD or hard-disk storage.
- Monthly bandwidth across all accounts.
- Per-account resource limits such as CPU and memory, which decide how well one busy site performs.
- Any fair-use policy that limits how “unlimited” features can be used.
What UK resellers should check
Server location and your clients
The physical distance between the server and your visitors affects how quickly pages start to load. If most of your clients’ visitors are in the UK, a server in the UK or nearby in western Europe will usually respond faster than one in another continent. A content delivery network such as Cloudflare can serve static files from a location near each visitor, which reduces the gap.
Also check whether any of your clients have rules about where their data is stored. Some sectors and contracts require data to stay in the UK or the EU.
White label
Your clients should see your brand, not the host’s. Check that you can use your own nameservers (for example ns1.yourbrand.co.uk), your own control panel address and your own support email. Ask whether the host’s name appears anywhere your clients will see.
Server software
The software on the server matters as much as the plan size:
- LiteSpeed Web Server handles PHP and WordPress sites efficiently and supports server-side caching.
- CloudLinux places each cPanel account in its own resource limits, so one busy client cannot slow the others down.
- Imunify360 adds a firewall and malware scanning across accounts.
- Free SSL for every client domain means you do not need to buy certificates for basic sites.
Billing
Once you have more than a few clients, manual invoicing takes time. WHMCS is billing software that can create invoices, collect payments and set up new cPanel accounts automatically. Check whether it is included or charged as an add-on.
Support and currency
You support your clients, and your host supports you. Check the host’s support hours in UK time, the channels available and how quickly technical issues are handled. Also check the billing currency. Paying in US dollars while charging clients in pounds means exchange rates affect your margin.
Tremhost reseller hosting for UK resellers
Tremhost is based in Harare, Zimbabwe, and sells reseller hosting internationally, priced in US dollars. All nine plans include unlimited cPanel accounts, WHM, full white label, LiteSpeed, CloudLinux, Imunify360 and free SSL. They differ in storage and bandwidth:
- Reseller 1: $7 a month, 25 GB NVMe and 250 GB bandwidth.
- Reseller 4: $12 a month or $108 a year, 60 GB NVMe and 800 GB bandwidth.
- Reseller 9: $60 a month, 1.2 TB NVMe and 20 TB bandwidth.
The first reseller order has a 30-day refund, plans renew at the sign-up price, and hosting is covered by a 99.9% monthly availability target. Support is Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00 CAT, which is 07:00 to 16:00 in the UK during British Summer Time and 06:00 to 15:00 in winter.
Tremhost does not have a data centre in the UK. Its data centres are in Johannesburg, New York, Miami, Limburg (Germany) and Roubaix (France). Tremhost recommends Roubaix or Limburg for visitors in Europe and the UK. If you need a fixed server location, ask support before ordering a standard reseller plan, or consider a master reseller or VPS reseller pool, which can be placed in any of the five locations.
Frequently asked questions
Is unlimited reseller hosting really unlimited?
The number of cPanel accounts is usually unlimited. Storage and bandwidth are not. Each plan has a fixed amount, shared across all your client accounts.
Do I need a UK server to sell hosting to UK clients?
Not always. A server in western Europe is close to the UK, and a CDN can speed up delivery further. You need a UK server only if your clients’ rules or contracts require their data to stay in the UK.
Can my clients tell who the real host is?
With full white label hosting, clients see your brand on the control panel address, nameservers and support contact. A technical user could still find the server’s IP owner, so do not promise clients that this is impossible to trace.
How many clients can I host on one reseller plan?
Divide the plan’s storage by the average space each client needs, and check that total monthly traffic fits within the bandwidth. Leave room for growth.
Next step
Compare storage, bandwidth and prices across all nine Tremhost reseller hosting plans and pick the one that fits your client list.
