Web hosting affiliate programs are so popular because everyone who is thinking about getting into online affiliate marketing needs hosting for there websites. The bigger question is which one do I use and which one is the best and which one is the best deal. The questions just keep going and going. I have been using the same hosting company now for the last 5 years and I have no complaints at all. I have talked to people that have been somewhere else for there hosting and most of them trade up when we were done talking about them, or wish they would have started with the same one that I use,(moving the hosting is a pain). Enough about the hosting. When you join a web hosting affiliate program, you are sending people to sign up for hosting at the hosting company that you are an affiliate for. You make a percentage of what the company gets when they are signed up. Another affiliate program that works a lot in the same way is web template affiliate programs. There are so many affiliate web programs out there that I have not even scratched the surface in 5 years. I can give you some advice on which hosting company to use for your hosting though, Blue Host. I like Blue Host because they have all the tools you are going to need for your websites, security, emails, anti spam, auto responders, forwarders, ftp accounts, passward protect directories, editors and on and on. I can’t even begin to touch on all the tools in there c-panel. It will take a while to get to know there website, so take your time do a lot of reading before you get ahead of yourself. There is enough hi tech there for the advanced website builder, yet it is easy enough for someone like me to understand it. Wordpress is my favorite part of there hole system. It makes it so easy to get a webpage out if you have never done any of that before. I hope that this information has helped you make an informed decision.
Good luck and have fun with it!