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Buying a Reseller Plan vs. Non-Reseller?
ServerBachelor
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I want to understand why I shouldn't buy a reseller plan if it has a) more storage and b) similar price to an individual plan.
I've seen a few providers offering, say, ~120 GB for individual shared hosting and ~250 for reseller hosting, yet the individual plan is like $7/mo and the reseller plan is only like $10/mo or something of the sort.
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Some providers may offer less support.
Not all.
reseller account you will be responsible for end user support, so as example if your customer will get some issues with your provided hosing you will required to provide support.
Usually in reseller plans there is a greater focus on the “Reseller” customer as well as providing them with a number of tools such as dedicated resources and access to the WHM and a whitelabel solution, this may be an example...
I believe the dealer plan will provide more generous resources. Memory and CPU may differ. How to choose depends on whether your site is busy or not.
Having a reseller account allows you to create multiple users, each with their own isolated environment. This is beneficial if different scripts require specific PHP settings or for enhanced security by keeping things separate.
In a shared hosting setup, there’s only one account and environment. If, for example, your WordPress site is compromised, the entire account, including all its contents and databases, could be at risk.
Another good point to add.
Understandable. So if I wanted to only create one user and dedicate all resources to that user, the reseller plan would basically just be a superior iteration of the individual pan (not accounting for availability or quality of support)?
That is true for cPanel, but not for Plesk. You can create multiple users isolated to specific subscriptions under the same owner with Plesk.
In cPanel resellers can create their own hosting plans and 'resell' them as if they were the host. This is also the case in Plesk, but it is not as well designed for reselling, gets a bit messy for the admin.
However, Plesk does allow multiple users per subscription. It depends on whether the host allows it. We allow unlimited users assigned to whatever subscriptions the account owner has without having privilege to all the subscriptions, only the assigned subscriptions and defined roles and permissions. A subscription is an instance of a plan. So if you have multiple customers, you get separate plans for each or a group of them, then assign the customers team users to that subscription/plan.
In cPanel, yes and no. It depends on the reseller plan resources vs the web hosting plan resources. A reseller plan however will allow you to create your own web hosting plans and 1 user per instance of a plan. Plesk allows more granular assignment of users to roles in subscriptions/plans which allow 1 to nth users to be assigned unlike cPanel it is 1 true panel user per web hosting plan (that is if cpanel has not increased features for roles, which I doubt they have, but might be wrong about that)
Yes that is a risk with cPanel and Plesk as well web hosting plan accounts (subscriptions in the case of Plesk) alike
Devil is in the details. The individual plan is likely setup with lower capped resources limits otherwise for CPU, memory, php memory limit per process, etc. Or they just really want to promote reseller hosting more...
It depends on the particular setup/provider. Some providers give you set resource limits per (sub)account, while some let you distribute a total set of available resource limits for your sub-accounts as you like (a less common option, but one I find to be very practical).
In a bit more detail:
https://io.bikegremlin.com/20863/reseller-hosting-explained/
Relja
You can host multiple sites on reseller plan than on shared/non-reseller.
I've like 5 sites each consuming 20% of 1 CPU core (100%) so the usage will be 100% and i will get throttled or users will start seeing errors.
But if i have reseller plan for each 5 site (subaccounts) then each plan will consume just 20% of CPU.
same goes with RAM, Inodes (most hosts restrict inodes like 300,000 per one account). A normal low-traffic wordpress site with 1000 posts and caching and easily hit 100,000 inodes (number of files).
Also with reseller plan you can be bit safe from hacking. If one site is hacked others may be still safe. but with non-reseller, you'll just get 5 folders for 5 sites and that can be easily hacked if single site gets hacked.
Moreover managing reseller plan is better if you have 5 or more sites.