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Normal Hosting vs Reseller Hosting

by pianorosa
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HI,

I was in a course that tells me that I should buy the Reseller Hosting in Hostalgar for 24.95/mo and not the cheaper hosting which costs 7.95/mo.

Both of them give you unlimited domain names.

They mention something like that when you succeed, it is hard to transfer from the normal hosting to the Reseller hosting.

I am not sure what the issue is.

Can you advise me on this and how to decide?

Thanks
Rosa
#hosting #normal #reseller
  • Profile picture of the author kavi
    Hi Rosa,

    It depends on how you want to organize your websites. The normal plan will allow you to add all your domains under the same single account. With the reseller plan you will be able to create seperate accounts for each of your domain (with their own seperate Cpanel and ftp access). They are partly right about transferring add-on domains being more difficult vs domains setup under a reseller account.

    Regards,
    Kavi
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  • Profile picture of the author dnka
    Shared hosting is adequate if you have simple sites and a single individual maintaining all the websites.
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    • Profile picture of the author pianorosa
      Thanks for the response.

      A. Right now, I have my own site which is a piano site:

      LearnPianoWithRosa(dot)com

      --this site only sells my own products.


      B. I just bought a new domain name called:

      SecretsToSuccessWithRosa(dot)com

      .....because I am helping some newbies who are starting on internet marketing in my piano site to build their own products.

      ---these are not my products but other people's products.

      So in this new domain name, I plan to gather a lot of good content material like:
      --twitter
      --reseller products
      --ebooks
      --niche marketing, etc
      --minisites templates


      Question: I plan to expand on different categories under one domain name; so I plan to use sub-domain names.

      For eg.

      Internetmarketing will be: IM.SecretsToSuccessWithRosa(dot)com/folders/

      FatLoss.SecretsToSuccessWithRosa(dot)com/DietPlan/

      Golf.SecretsToSuccessWithRosa(dot)com/GolfSwings/

      I am not sure if this is a wise way of doing it.
      Will I overload too much in one domain name?

      But I see that sub-domain names are treated as a different site, so I don't see any problem with that.

      Or should I open a new domain name for each category?


      I am just beginning and want to make sure I am not reinventing the wheel down the road.

      Bluehost allows me to have lots of domain names.

      You can tell I have lots of questions but I want to start on the right foot before I dig too deep into this thing.

      Should I move over to Hostalgar and go for the Reseller hosting and do all my sub-categories?

      Thank you for helping me,
      Rosa
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      • Profile picture of the author Luckies
        with only two domains name, I'd use a normal hosting account. With a reseller account you have a cpanel for every domain, but is worth to buy a reseller account only if you have 10 website or more.
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        • Profile picture of the author pianorosa
          So do you think that I am overloading my 2nd website with too many subdomain names and folders?

          The reason why I do subdomain and folders is to put them into different categories.

          Would you get different domain names and make different websites?
          Or would you do what I do and open subdomains and folders?

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          • Profile picture of the author OnlineMarketingSys
            Originally Posted by pianorosa View Post

            So do you think that I am overloading my 2nd website with too many subdomain names and folders?

            The reason why I do subdomain and folders is to put them into different categories.

            Would you get different domain names and make different websites?
            Or would you do what I do and open subdomains and folders?

            Rosa
            No, you can create 10,100 or even 1,000 subdomains with ease. Since each is a subcategory in your case it makes perfect sense.

            To answer your question about the right type of hosting. I would only go with the Reseller account, if you are working on other peoples sites/campaigns for them ( and you want to give them login access).

            On the other hand, if you run all of the sites yourself, having it under one account with multiple domains is perfectly fine. I wouldn't worry about transfering accounts, if and when you outgrow your account hostgator or whatever hosting account your with will be able to move things over for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author bizideas
    Hi Rosa,

    There's lots and lots of discussion on this topic both on this forum and beyond.
    I'd like to add just a quick note that you should be aware of. As it pertains to addons for "normal webhosting", if you're ever hacked, then ALL of your sites are compromised, not just a single domain. Reseller hosting somewhat minimizes this impact. This security concern is just one of many to reasons to support the argument of separating your domain(s).

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  • Profile picture of the author BloggerDownUnder
    Hi Rosa,

    I agree that a reseller account may be more attractive as it may be cheaper. I use the one at Host Gator but get an IT tecchie to look after my domains - so I can focus on what I enjoy and am better at.

    I hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author se7en
    Rosa,

    If your current hosting supports multiple domains I would stick with this.

    I`m only experienced in PPC marketing and I keep all different niches on seperate domains to improve quality score then if I get a winner it gets its own domain.

    Maybe having different niches on same domain will effect SEO?

    If I where you I would have a tester domain then move out succesful niches onto their own domain therefore eliminating a google slap/sandbox on one of your sites effecting all of them.

    I am a newbie at this but lets hope some experts on here can help.

    Regards,Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author Lawrh
      Another important reason for having a reseller account is if one of your sites gets popular or gets the front page of Digg, or Slashdot, and gets hammered, only that site goes down. With a normal shared account, if one site starts using lots of resources all sites go down. This should be remembered when using CPU intensive scripts as well.
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      • Profile picture of the author bizideas
        Originally Posted by Lawrh View Post

        Another important reason for having a reseller account is if one of your sites gets popular or gets the front page of Digg, or Slashdot, and gets hammered, only that site goes down. With a normal shared account, if one site starts using lots of resources all sites go down. This should be remembered when using CPU intensive scripts as well.

        That's a good point. I didn't think of that one.
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