If you are planning to start a web hosting company then this type of hosting is the best to begin with. Reseller hosting is type of web hosting where the reseller resells other hosting company shared hosting space, hardware and bandwidth. The hosting plans features can be configured/created via the admin panel of the reseller, who purchases disc space and bandwidth from a third party company. Many web designers and web development companies have reseller accounts and sell hosting under their brand to their clients. Knowledge beyond web hosting management and control panels is not required to maintain this type of account. There are several popular control panels for reseller hosting management. WebHostManager (WHM for short) and cPanel (for linux) are the most popular combination of reseller admin panel and user/client/customer web panel. Via WHM you can create/configure hosting plans, setup bandwidth quota, disc space, edit/add dns zones, setup branding, assign IP addresses and many other features. Clients via cPanel may add addon domains, upload files, setup FTP accounts, create/manage MySQL databases and MySQL users, etc, etc. Other popular panels are plesk (for windows), directadmin and others.