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DirectAdmin Reseller Hosting

Resell hosting on a lighter, cheaper panel

The DirectAdmin panel is quick and light, and its licence costs less. Brand it as yours, fill it with clients, and keep more from every sale.

$14.99

Plan 1, per month

Lightweight

DirectAdmin panel

Up to 500

Client accounts

White-label

Your brand only

cPanel control panel for managing web hosting

Lightweight Panel

DirectAdmin: less weight, more speed

Lean is the whole point of the DirectAdmin design. It sips at server resources rather than swallowing them, so panel pages come up quickly and more capacity is left for the sites you host. Better for you, and better for everyone you sell to.

  • Fast, low-resource control panel
  • Quick for you, quick for clients
  • Simple, uncluttered interface
  • More headroom on every server

Plans

DirectAdmin reseller plans

Choose a resource pool and start selling. Every plan is white-label, and the panel licence is included.

Reseller 1

Launch your hosting brand

$14.99/mo

$179.88 today · billed annually

renews at the same price · + $0.40 per active user

NVMe storage
30 GB
Bandwidth
300 GB
Overselling
Enabled
Client accounts
100
  • Full WHM + cPanel for clients
  • White-label private nameservers
  • Overselling enabled
  • Set client resource limits
  • Build your own packages
  • Free SSL for every client site
  • Free daily backups + restore
  • Imunify360 malware protection
  • NVMe SSD + LiteSpeed cache
  • Softaculous on every account
  • WHMCS-ready billing
  • No setup fee, cancel anytime
  • 24/7 support for you and clients
Contact us for a quote
Most Popular

Reseller 2

For growing client rosters

$29.99/mo

$359.88 today · billed annually

renews at the same price · + $0.40 per active user

NVMe storage
60 GB
Bandwidth
600 GB
Overselling
Enabled
Client accounts
250
  • Full WHM + cPanel for clients
  • White-label private nameservers
  • Overselling enabled
  • Set client resource limits
  • Build your own packages
  • Free SSL for every client site
  • Free daily backups + restore
  • Imunify360 malware protection
  • NVMe SSD + LiteSpeed cache
  • Softaculous on every account
  • WHMCS-ready billing
  • No setup fee, cancel anytime
  • 24/7 support for you and clients
Contact us for a quote

Reseller 3

Agency-scale reselling

$59.99/mo

$719.88 today · billed annually

renews at the same price · + $0.40 per active user

NVMe storage
100 GB
Bandwidth
1.5 TB
Overselling
Enabled
Client accounts
500
  • Full WHM + cPanel for clients
  • White-label private nameservers
  • Overselling enabled
  • Set client resource limits
  • Build your own packages
  • Free SSL for every client site
  • Free daily backups + restore
  • Imunify360 malware protection
  • NVMe SSD + LiteSpeed cache
  • Softaculous on every account
  • WHMCS-ready billing
  • No setup fee, cancel anytime
  • 24/7 support for you and clients
Contact us for a quote

Why DirectAdmin

A leaner panel, a healthier margin

The lightweight DirectAdmin reseller dashboard shown on a laptop screen

A featherweight panel

Lean by design, DirectAdmin loads its pages fast and leaves resources free, so even a loaded server still feels quick for you and for your clients.

Lower licence overhead

Lighter panel, lighter cost base. That saving goes straight into what you pay for the plan, which keeps your margins in decent shape.

Fully white-label

With private nameservers and your branding in place, clients see your company and nothing else: not us, not the panel vendor.

Real reseller tools

Build packages, set limits, suspend or upgrade an account, and run every customer from one uncluttered reseller dashboard.

Hundreds of clients

Add as many customer accounts as the resource pool will take, with overselling on to stretch each gigabyte further.

Free SSL for every site

Every client site you host picks up a free SSL certificate that renews itself, so the hosting they buy is secure.

30-day money-back guarantee on hosting

Lower Cost

Pay less to run your hosting brand

Licensing a lightweight panel costs less, and that saving comes back to you. What you pay is a low monthly base plus a small charge for each active client, so costs climb only as revenue climbs, and more of each sale stays with you.

  • Leaner licence, lower base price
  • $0.40 per active client account
  • No charge for empty accounts
  • Predictable, protectable margins
Reseller hosting business owner at work

White Label

Your brand, front to back

Put private nameservers in place, add your branding, and the whole hosting experience becomes yours. Customers sign up, log in and look after their sites under your company name, while the infrastructure and the panel vendor stay out of sight.

  • Private nameservers (ns1.yourbrand.com)
  • Your logo and company name
  • Your own packages and prices
  • Clients never see our name

Reseller Tools

Everything you need to run the business

Build packages, look after clients, keep control, all from one quick dashboard.

Reseller hosting account management tools on screen

One clean dashboard

Packages, users and resource limits all sit in one reseller view, built for speed instead of clutter.

Instant account creation

A new client goes live in seconds, on your own hosting packages and prices already set up.

NVMe speed under it

NVMe SSD storage sits under every reseller account, so client sites load fast and rank better.

How It Works

Launch your hosting brand in 3 steps

Setting up a white-label DirectAdmin hosting brand, step by step
1

Pick a reseller plan

Size the pool of NVMe storage and bandwidth around the clients on your books today. Moving up a tier later takes no effort.

2

Brand your DirectAdmin

Configure private nameservers, upload your own logo, and the entire hosting experience ends up carrying your company name.

3

Sell and grow

Assemble your hosting packages, price them, open client accounts, and the recurring revenue starts arriving.

Included

What comes with every plan

On every DirectAdmin reseller hosting tier.

  • Lightweight DirectAdmin panel
  • White-label reseller dashboard
  • Private nameservers
  • Overselling enabled
  • Up to 500 client accounts
  • Set your own client resource limits
  • Free SSL on every client site
  • NVMe SSD storage
  • No setup fee
  • 24/7 human support
Global web hosting data center network

We run the servers. You run the brand.

Hardware, network, uptime and the DirectAdmin licence are ours to worry about, 24/7. Selling and supporting your clients is yours.

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Great For

Who resells with DirectAdmin

Freelance designer managing branded client hosting accounts

Designers & agencies

Bundle quick, branded hosting into every client project and pick up recurring revenue.

Freelancers

Keep every client in a single lightweight panel, under your own name.

New hosting brands

Start a cheap hosting product without buying servers or a separate licence of your own.

NVMe SSD storage for fast website loading speed

Performance

NVMe speed under a lightweight panel

Light panel, quick hardware: that combination is hard to beat. Reseller accounts here sit on NVMe storage, so client sites load quickly, score well on Core Web Vitals and keep your customers perfectly content with you.

  • NVMe SSD storage under every account
  • Quick client sites, and better rankings
  • Free auto-renewing SSL included
  • Overselling to stretch resources

FAQ

DirectAdmin reseller questions

What is DirectAdmin reseller hosting?

It's a hosting plan that hands you a DirectAdmin reseller panel for creating and running hosting accounts for customers of your own. Packages and prices are yours to set, the brand on them is yours, and we keep the servers going behind it.

Why does DirectAdmin cost less to run than heavier panels?

Being a lightweight control panel, DirectAdmin uses fewer server resources and carries a leaner licence fee. That efficiency is what lets us price these plans lower while performance stays high for you and for your clients.

Can everything be white-labelled under my own brand?

Yes. Private nameservers plus your own branding mean the customer only ever sees your company. Our name doesn't appear anywhere client-facing, and neither does the name of the panel vendor.

How many client accounts can I create?

Create as many customer accounts as the resource pool will carry, with overselling switched on. Sign clients up as quickly as you can win them; your reseller plan sets no cap on the number of accounts.

Do I need to buy my own DirectAdmin licence?

No. Every reseller plan includes the DirectAdmin licence at no extra charge, so there's nothing separate for you to buy, install or renew at any point.

Can I upgrade as my client base grows?

You can. Step up to a bigger reseller tier the moment you want more storage or bandwidth. Existing client accounts travel with you untouched, and none of the migration falls on you.

Start reselling on a lighter panel.

Lower cost to licence, branding that's yours alone, and DirectAdmin included on every plan.

Start Reselling

The Full Picture

Plenty of freelancers, agencies and small hosting brands start reselling because they already have clients who need somewhere to put a website — the reseller account becomes the plumbing behind a service they're already selling. DirectAdmin fits that role well because it stays out of the way: fewer clicks, faster pages, and none of the bloat that heavier panels carry around.

What separates a reseller plan you can build a business on from one that just sits there is what happens after checkout — whether someone answers when a client's site goes down, whether backups exist before you need them, and whether you can test the whole setup without risking your existing customer base. Hosting Cheap backs every DirectAdmin reseller plan with daily backups, 24/7 human support, a free migration team and a 30-day money-back guarantee, so the infrastructure decision is the easy part.

Deep Dives

The details behind the promises

Free migration for your existing reseller clients

Switching panels or hosts usually stalls at the same point: nobody wants to touch client sites that already work. Our migration team moves each account over for you — files, databases, email and DNS records — as a free managed service included with every reseller plan, so your clients notice nothing except that things got faster.

Before anything changes, we scope the move against what you're running now, sequence the accounts to keep downtime to a minimum, and only cut DNS over once each client site has been checked on the new server. You keep selling and supporting clients the whole time; the migration work happens on our side.

Support that works behind your brand

A reseller business runs on trust, and trust breaks the moment a client can't reach anyone when something goes wrong. Our 24/7 human support team handles server-level tickets, panel issues and uptime monitoring around the clock, so you're never the only person on call for a problem you didn't cause.

You stay the face of the business — clients see your brand, your pricing and your packages — while our engineers work the infrastructure layer in the background. That split lets a one-person hosting brand offer round-the-clock coverage it could never staff alone.

Backups and a guarantee behind every account

Every reseller account is backed up daily as standard, across every client site sitting on it. If a client's plugin update breaks their site or a change goes sideways, you can restore from a recent backup instead of rebuilding by hand or apologising for data that's gone for good.

Because switching your whole hosting business to a new panel is a real decision, every plan also carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. That's enough time to onboard a handful of real clients, test support response times and confirm the panel suits your workflow before you commit the rest of your roster.

When to graduate from reseller to VPS or dedicated

Most client sites are happy sharing a well-run reseller pool, but every hosting brand eventually picks up an account that outgrows it — a store with heavy traffic, an app with unusual resource needs, or a client who wants guaranteed isolation from everyone else on the box. VPS plans from $13.52/mo give that single account its own resources without pulling it off your reseller billing.

For hosting brands running several large sites or clients who specifically ask for dedicated hardware, dedicated servers from $149.99/mo hand over a full machine. Because it's the same company behind both tiers, moving one client up doesn't mean rebuilding your reseller setup — it's an addition, not a migration.

Domain name registration and search

Domains, DNS and email for every client you sell

Reselling hosting rarely stops at disk space — clients also need a domain pointed at their site, DNS records set correctly, and often a professional inbox that matches their business name. Handling all three from one reseller workflow saves you from juggling a separate registrar account for every client.

Domain registration and DNS management sit alongside your hosting packages, and email hosting is available as an add-on for clients who want addresses like name@theirdomain.com instead of a free webmail account. It all bills under your brand, the same as the hosting itself.

  • Register or transfer client domains without leaving your dashboard
  • Set custom DNS records per client site in minutes
  • Add professional email hosting under each client's own domain
  • Keep every domain and DNS record billed under your brand

More Reasons

Built to help you grow

Migration handled for you

Our team moves your existing client accounts, email and databases to DirectAdmin at no extra charge.

Daily backups included

Every client account is backed up daily, so you can restore a site in minutes if something goes wrong.

30-day money-back guarantee

Trial a reseller plan risk-free for 30 days before you commit your whole client roster.

24/7 human support on call

Real support staff handle server-side tickets around the clock, so you're never the only line of defense.

1-click installers for clients

Let clients launch WordPress and other apps in a click instead of walking them through manual setup.

A clear path to VPS or dedicated

Move standout client sites onto VPS or dedicated resources as your reseller business outgrows shared limits.

Getting Started

How to get going

1

Share your current setup

Tell us which panel and host your clients are on now so we can scope a free migration.

2

We migrate every account

Our team copies files, databases, email and DNS records for each client with minimal downtime.

3

Cut over and keep selling

Point nameservers to your new DirectAdmin reseller plan and keep billing your clients without interruption.

Good To Know

What's covered

  • Free managed migration for every client account
  • Daily backups across the whole reseller account
  • 30-day money-back guarantee on reseller plans
  • 1-click installers for WordPress and other apps
  • LiteSpeed web server for faster client page loads
  • Geo-currency pricing so international clients see local pricing
  • Domain registration and DNS tools for every client

More FAQ

More questions, answered

Will you migrate my existing reseller clients from another host or panel?

Yes. Our team handles a free managed migration for every client account you bring over, moving files, databases, email and DNS records with minimal downtime. You tell us what you're moving from and we scope the move before anything changes for your clients.

Are backups included for the accounts I resell?

Yes, every reseller account is backed up daily as standard. If a client's site breaks or a change goes wrong, you can restore it without waiting on a separate backup purchase.

Is there a money-back guarantee on DirectAdmin reseller plans?

Yes, every plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. That gives you room to test the panel, pricing and support with real client accounts before you commit your whole hosting business to it.

Do my clients get 1-click app installers?

Yes. Client accounts include 1-click installers so customers can launch WordPress and other popular apps themselves, cutting down the setup requests that land in your inbox.

Can international clients pay in their own currency?

Yes, pricing displays in the visitor's local currency automatically through geo-currency detection, which makes your storefront easier to sell in for clients outside your home market.

Who actually operates the servers behind Hosting Cheap's reseller hosting?

Hosting Cheap's reseller hosting is operated by Bohzo Ltd, a UK-registered hosting company. That's the legal entity behind billing, support and the infrastructure your client accounts run on.