Re: Why be a reseller
A reseller is ideal if you have a number of accounts to manage. You generally get your resource at a bulk rate. However, most reseller accounts require you to provide all the customer contact and support services (hence why you get the resources cheaper than retail)
For a web designer, it's useful to be able to supply the design and hosting service.
The other benefit with a reseller account is that the server is managed for you, so all you need to do is the account management and collect the fees.
Down side is that you're at the mercy of the other accounts on the box, so you really need to ensure that your host is not overselling, but that I guess is the same as hosting lots of individual accounts.
If you need multiple platforms (for example Windows and Linux), then rather than running 2 cheap servers which you won't fill up, you could probably run 2 reasonable sized reseller accounts for less.
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