Multiple domains on one account or reseller?

[nickreynolds]

This could be a simple question! Or it might even have a simple answer.!

Due to inflexibility over upgrades I might need to change webhosting. I have multiple domain names, some of which are my own and some are for people whose websites I maintain. Up to now I've had a reseller account with whm and cpanel although I don't actually resell. Every name has its own cpanel, and its own ftp login.

I could go to a business hosting plan which allows mutiple domains. However each one would be registered under the main domain and so (I think) would be on the server in the public_html file of the main domain ie main domain - public_html - other domain - index.html.

My question is would this hurt the search ranking of my domain names to do this?

[tedster]

As long as the domain name resolves, then it doesn't matter to Google how the separate accounts are configured on the server - they just access the URLs via the normal DNS system. Only the server admin sees the rest of the back end file and folder structure

[anallawalla]

If you host client sites under one master account, each of them will/might(?) be able to browse upwards into your and then down into other people's websites. It could be preventable but that's how it is in a master account on my own VPS that was created when I moved some sites off a shared host. Although all are my sites, I prefer each site to have its own cPanel and login.