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I'm the webmaster of a series of sites. Most of them are small, round 50 pages.
The sites are hosted with different hosting firms.
Some of the sites are really small and it's a bit of a waste to use a hosting packet with 100Mb space for a site that only uses 50.
Is their a solution for hosting a lot of smaller sites?
What is a reseller account?
Kind regards,
Dirk.
Actually, I maintain several of these reseller accounts rather than 1 dedicated server. I feel it helps with SEO as I crosslink several of the sites with different IP's. Also, sooner or later, the server gets weird and all my eggs aren't in one basket.
I use <sniP> and by and large like them, but I'll probably try out a few other companies in the future just to see if they work better.
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 4:35 am (utc) on Mar. 4, 2005]
Dixon.
Get a reseller account that offers cpanel or Plesk
Yup, thats your answer, you can bung them all on there and keep you costs right down. Switch them on or off, alter bandwidth, get stats, its a breeze.
Only drawback is from interlinking in any way for SEO
Reseller accounts are kind of cheap compared to what I pay now, I should have looked into them earlier.
It's hard to choose between the zillion reseller companies though.
Get C-Panel for ease in managing your sites, if you can get Awstats instead of Webalizer for a stats program, that's a good thing. A dedicated IP will help - especially from spam and other email issues common to sharing a server with other resellers.
Check www.hostdime.com for their reseller pkgs and compare benefits with the others - there are a lot of them out there and the price swings are outragous. hostdime is ok, no wild recommendation, I have 3 reseller accounts with them, all on different servers with different IP's. Two of the reseller accounts work great and the third, I'm going to have to move as they seem to keep having different issues.
