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[Lakiscy]

Hello everyone,

I develop websites as a part time job, mainly in joomla and flash. My clients are small bussines, not special resources required.
I used to pick up a new hosting plan for every client to develop a webiste but at my last 5 projects i discover the "addon domain" thing and now i have 5 websites in one basic hosting plan in hostmonster. The websites running ok, if you consider the fact that there is not too much traffic to thoose websites and is really cool the fact that i use the same control panel for 5 websites.

Now as this growing im becoming to wonder how many websites a hosting plan can hadle. Even if in the hosting plan i will never use 1.5 tera, neither 15000 GB traffic, what is the factor that i must be consider to have my websites running in performance?

I know most of you will suggest me the reseller plan, but is limited against the bussines plan and i dont believe that i really need it. Exept if there is a real difference in performance.

I mean 10 websites in a resellers plan will perform better than 10 websites as addons on a basic plan?

Or maybe i should think something like bying one hosting plan for every 10 websites for example?

I really cannot find the factor in the hosting plans that shows the performances, i mean even if i have in a package all thoose ulimited things, how do i know that my websites will perform ok when 500 users are browsing them at the same time?

Thanks

[bineshjacob]

Hello,

If you are not looking for a reseller plan, It is hard to run your sites
properly because you have the need of more system resources.

May be you have the need of a managed VPS. Even though you have got unlimited bandwidth and disk space, I don't think a shared plan is enough for your needs.

[~ServerPoint~]

Yo know as rule prices are not much different for reseller and shared accounts.

[eLief]

There isn't really any difference in performance between a reseller account or a normal shared hosting account, except with a reseller account you will normally get WHM access.

Your web host will monitor the resources your using and i'm sure will let you know when it's time to upgrade out of your shared hosting plan to a vps or dedicated.

[Henrik]

If you're out after having a dev-space, either set up your own server at the office and test-run your projects there or go for a host like Dreamhost, which seem pretty dev-friendly as I gather it

[Lakiscy]

thanks for fast replies.

I think i manage all my websites right now fine with the cpanel and because of the fact that every site has admin panel.

The resselers plan are more expensive as i see with less storage and bandwith.

If there is not any difference in performance i dont see a reason of switching to resseler. Or there is?

What are the factors that may convise me to switch to resseler?

[Cenys]

Lakiscy understand this bw transit is not real.. there is no server in the world that will support 100 customers using this huge transfer. All the hosting companies will tell you to move to a VPS or dedicated when you use a lot of resources in a hosting server.

[Lakiscy]

ofcource if i have 100 customers i will move to dedicated server. What im actually trying to undertand now is the diffense between shared hosting plans and resellers plan in the performance.

[Vishal]

Originally Posted by Lakiscy

The resselers plan are more expensive as i see with less storage and bandwith.

You can easily get 5-20GB storage Disksapce with good BW in 10-25$ per month.

Many Bigplayer now offer TB space with shared plan.

Originally Posted by Lakiscy

If there is not any difference in performance i dont see a reason of switching to resseler. Or there is?

What are the factors that may convise me to switch to resseler?

If you choose Reseller plan you can customize your hosting plan and can offer unlimited pop email accounts,sub domains,unlimited FTP etc etc WITH your development Package

So you can easily attract your customer by offering dedicated CPanel(+ all features) with development package.

[The Stealthy One]

The only problem you may run into (since it does not seem you will exceed disk and bandwidth limits) is that the sites, being based on joomla (which uses PHP) could become resource hogs. This means they would be using a lot of CPU power. On a shared hosting plan, this is pretty much a no-no, and your host would likely contact you asking you to move or upgrade to a higher-priced plan with more resources. However, as long as the sites stay small, with a small amount of traffic, I think 5 (and maybe 10, though that might be too many) under one plan would be Ok, based on what I've seen in the past.

[Lakiscy]

I see

So is there any difference in the performance and the resources avaible between shared and resseler plan? Or is only just the way you manage your sites?

[The Stealthy One]

Not necessarily. However, there tend to be fewer reseller accounts per server versus shared accounts per server.

[Henrik]

Bandwidth is not something you should base your choice of webhost on, especially not if you are a "developer" as you say.

Instead you should focus on server-resources, as a start.

[Lakiscy]

So, why reseller plan is better for hosting multiple websites, rather than addon domains, when you actually dont sell hosting?

[OpticBurst]

Resorces are the bloodhood of any developer. I advise you focus your efforts to aquiring a host with superb resources.