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abbeyvet -> RE: co location vs separate accounts (2/4/2003 18:02:49)
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There are two types of reseller plans:
1. You sell someone elses plans which you have bought at a discount. Really these are more like affiliate relationships.
2. You buy space and bandwidth in bulk and carve it up and charge for it as you see fit. You carve it up into virtual domains - it does not mean people have some weird URL, it is just the same as it would ordinarily be.
I suspect you are using the former, and think you should be looking for the latter.
It sounds great that each separate domain you have now has 150 MB and 30 email boxes. Let me ask you two questions though:
How many of those sites are using anything even close to 150MB?
How many of those site actually need or use 30 email addresses?
I bet they have about 1GB of bandwidth too!
I host a fair few sites (don' t do resellers though, and Linux only - this is in NO way a commercial post!!). They mostly are given fairly generous bandwidth and space. When I look at monthly bandwidth useage, which appears as a percentage in a list alongside site names, most of the sites are using somewhere between 0% and 5% of their allowance. Few of them use even 25% of their disc space, many a lot less.
A few of course are using a reasonable amount, but most sites, most of the time neither need the type of plan they have nor use it.
But try selling someone 15MB of disc space, 3 email addresses and 0.1 GB of bandwidth and see where you go - noone will buy it, though in fact it is all most of them will ever need.
What I am trying to say is the fact that you now have say 16 sites each with 150MB, 30 email addresses and 1GB of bandwidth does NOT mean you are lookging for 2400MB, 480 email addresses and 16 GBs of oomph to host all of these on a reseller plan.
Make an assessment of what your clients are ACTUALLY using now, the decide what you need interms of a reseller plan.
Two good and reliable places for Windows reseller plans are www.appliedi.net and www.datapipe.com
Neither are the cheapest you will find, but the cheapest is probabaly not where you want to go and they are certainly within your budget based on what you are paying now.
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