Selling hosting servers or resources
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Service providers and resellers can sell hosting servers or resources to resellers. Resellers who buy hosting servers or resources own the servers; they have exclusive rights to use them. Servers or resources owned by resellers are known as dedicated resources.
An alternative to selling a server or resource is to sell capacity. Resellers who buy capacity on a hosting server or resource work in a shared-server environment.
Before you can sell a server or resource to a reseller: If you are reseller, you need to purchase a dedicated server or resource from your service provider, and your service provider needs to authorize you to add resellers. If you are a service provider, you need to have a server or resource that has not been sold or used; its state must be Free.
To sell a hosting server or resource to a reseller:
On the top navigation panel, click resellers.
On the resellers list, click the option button to the left of the reseller to whom you want to sell a hosting server, then click overview on the action bar above the list.
On the overview page, click the resources tab.
On the action bar above the reseller's resources information, click add sever.
The resources list is displayed. It shows all the servers or resources whose state is free (neither sold to nor used by any reseller or organization). These are the servers and resources you can sell to the reseller.
Optional: To see only the servers or resources in a specific pool or running a specific service, choose a service and a pool from the drop down lists, then click Refresh.
The resources list is displayed again. It shows all the servers or resources that meet your selection criteria and whose state is free (neither sold to nor used by any reseller or organization).
Select the servers or resources you want to sell by clicking the check box in the Select column.
Click Add Selected Servers.
The servers or resources appear on the reseller's resource page.