Reseller Or Shared Hosting

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I am building 20 review sites in the coming weeks and am trying to decide whether the best option is to go with shared hosting such as Hostgator or with a resellers account that only i will use. Is shared hosting sufficient for 20 such sites?
Any recommendations will be gratefully received.

Cheers
#hosting #reseller #shared
  • Profile picture of the author DianaHeuser
    Hi Zimbizee,

    I chose to go with a reseller account simply because I really do have more control over my sites than with shared hosting. However when you are starting out, shared hosting is probably a cheaper way to go.

    Di
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  • Profile picture of the author CoachMikeH
    Unless you have someone to sell those reseller accounts to, I would go with the shared hosting. HostGator's hosting plans are more than enough with the Baby Plan (mid range option). I always have great support from HostGator as well. If you will need more bandwidth later, you can upgrade. Start small and grow into it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Omdllc
    I use both - it depends what it's for. Shared hosting will be fine for 20 review sites. I suggest you change any that does well to Seo hosting though to get it it's own unique IP.
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  • Profile picture of the author HomeBlogger
    Well as long as you're going to build such a websites network go for reseller packages
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    • Profile picture of the author ppetri
      A HostGator "Baby Croc" plan is perfect for what you are doing now. Unlimited add-on domains and unlimited emails. Under a hundred bucks for a year. If you really haven't made much money yet online it's the only way to go. You can login within one account and do everything. Really no sense in paying $39 per month for a reseller account. I have both but I only move a product over to the reseller account once it is making money.

      The reseller account is awesome for keeping everything organized. I have one account for each niche in my reseller account. One niche account may have 20 websites in it all within a specific niche. Account "money" then I have facebookblahblah.com, twitterblahblah.com craigslistblahblah.com etc (not real domains). Then I know which account is for what niche. It really helps me. Hope this helps - Pete
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  • Profile picture of the author Kacy Carlsen
    If you plan to operate all the websites yourself, the shared hosting option would be easier to manage and more cost effective.

    If, for some reason, you wanted to each domain to have their own instance of cPanel, or a webmaster working on sites for you, the Reseller account could give you more control options.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Shared hosting is adequate and cheaper. I use reseller hosting and shared hosting but for different purposes. If I'm keeping the sites, they go on shared. If I'm selling the sites, they go on reseller.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bock
    If you have enough you buy reseller but i would recommend you to get shared hosting.
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  • Profile picture of the author zimbizee
    Thanks for all the replies guys and gals, i think for now that shared hosting will be sufficient and as recommended if the sites take off i can always upgrade to reseller later.

    Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author HN
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    My shared hosting only allows 60 minutes of CPU access per day and 40,000 inodes. I am only using 5% of bandwidth and CPU, but I am about to exceed 40,000 inodes (files).
    Beware of shared hosts that promise you unlimited everything, because, in fact this will turn out not to be unlimited.
    Or can anyone recommend a truly unlimited shared hosting? I need to get 5-6 new hosting accounts soon.
    Also another option could be buying a dedicated server together with 1-2 other people and share that.
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