I've been looking at various web hosting providers such as Blurstorm or Polurnet. However, these only seem to have reseller webhosting plans and not ordinary web hosting plans for personal/ non-commercial websites (unless I'm missing something).

In the case of these sites where they mainly seem to offer the reseller plans, is it worth going for those packages anyway, or would I be paying an unnecessary additional expense for features I might not use anyway? Or can these reseller hosting plans be used for a personal website?

Thanks

If you are not planning to use the reseller features, I don't see the point in signing up for a reseller plan. Unless you are looking for enormous amounts of resources, you will more than likely have much more space and bandwidth than you really need. You should first figure out what space, bandwidth, and features you need for your site. Then look for a shared hosting plan which fits your needs.

There are serveral good hosts out there that provide hosting for single websites.

Yes you can use a reseller account for hosting a single website, but they're actually designed for hosting multiple websites.

If your site isnt big, a reseller account is probably a waste of money, as a good one is going to be at least $15-$20, when a good shared host can provide a single site hosting for around $5-$8

Thanks for the response.

So what do most websites you see on the net have? Are they shared hosting? And does Shared mean that someone else has access to your FTP server or files, or that you share a domain name and only have some kind of subdomain? I wouldn't want this, but my own individual site.

Hi!

In shared hosting, multiple sites are hosted on a single server, so each account is "sharing" server resources, if you get a shared account nobody but you should be able to access to your FTP server or files, you get your own username and password just for you. You can choose to host using a domain or a subdomain, that's not relevant for the kind of hosting package that you get.

So what do most websites you see on the net have? Are they shared hosting?I've not read any serious statistics on this, but shared hosting is my bet. :)

And does Shared mean that someone else has access to your FTP server or files, or that you share a domain name and only have some kind of subdomain?In simple terms it means your account is not the only one on that server. The other customers won't have access to your files, you can host your own domain(s). (exceptions to these points are very rare)

Hi!

In shared hosting, multiple sites are hosted on a single server, so each account is "sharing" server resources, if you get a shared account nobody but you should be able to access to your FTP server or files, you get your own username and password just for you. You can choose to host using a domain or a subdomain, that's not relevant for the kind of hosting package that you get.

So just to clarify, is shared hosting actually the opposite of something like a dedicated server rather than the opposite of reseller hosting?

Does that mean that if the server goes down, all the shared sites will also go down?

And how necessary is it to get a dedicated server instead? Obviously, I'm sure it would be more expensive - but would a shared single server be sufficient?

I'm currently experiencing some problems with one of my websites, and I have the suspicion that it might be to do with the host's server, since all their other sites hosted by them are experiencing similar problems and their own support forum is also down. Am I correct here?

Thanks

So what do most websites you see on the net have?

Most personal and small business sites on the net use less than 500 MB disk space (and that is a generous figure). What is happening is that many hosting companies are offering outrageous amounts of disk space (10-50 GB) as a marketing tactic. They know "most" customers will not ever come close to using even 1 GB of storage space.

So just to clarify, is shared hosting actually the opposite of something like a dedicated server rather than the opposite of reseller hosting?

Does that mean that if the server goes down, all the shared sites will also go down?

And how necessary is it to get a dedicated server instead? Obviously, I'm sure it would be more expensive - but would a shared single server be sufficient?

I'm currently experiencing some problems with one of my websites, and I have the suspicion that it might be to do with the host's server, since all their other sites hosted by them are experiencing similar problems and their own support forum is also down. Am I correct here?

Thanks

Correct, shared hosting is the normal way to host a web site. Dedicated hosting (where you won the whole server) will cost you anywhere from $100 to $300 per month depending on the hardware and level of support. Shared hosting typically costs $5-$20 per month. Most web sites on the net are on shared servers.

I'm currently experiencing some problems with one of my websites, and I have the suspicion that it might be to do with the host's server, since all their other sites hosted by them are experiencing similar problems and their own support forum is also down. Am I correct here?
You're correct there, however, that kind of downtime shouldn't be the rule, indeed, many hosts does offer 99.95% uptime guarantee, this mean a maximum of 43 minutes per month down.

Dan is probbly ture, most of the sites are hosted in shared accounts, assuming that these shared accounts are not hosted in reseller accounts :)-

I've been looking at various web hosting providers such as Blurstorm or Polurnet. However, these only seem to have reseller webhosting plans and not ordinary web hosting plans for personal/ non-commercial websites (unless I'm missing something).

In the case of these sites where they mainly seem to offer the reseller plans, is it worth going for those packages anyway, or would I be paying an unnecessary additional expense for features I might not use anyway? Or can these reseller hosting plans be used for a personal website?

Thanks


We (blurstorm.com) have both and actually started out with Shared Hosting plans that you speak of. But in the case of our reseller plans you're better off getting one of those where you only pay a little bit more for a whole lot more in terms of space and bandwidth.