If your website reseller business is growing fast, it is better to upgrade the current reseller package to either VPS server or buy dedicated server. Normally, the reseller hosting packages are hosted like the shared website hosting packages. This can severely restrict the management of the fast growing reselling business.

The VPS server or dedicated server platforms, on the contrary, can allow you as the website reseller to control any aspect of reselling business. The chief advantage of using dedicated server is that, while a VPS is virtual server and is hosted on a node with plenty of other VPS, a dedicated server is entirely an exclusive physical server.

Reseller Hosting Packages

Reseller accounts allow resellers to host multiple domains and clients. They are commonly hosted on a shared hosting environment, and so they are exposed to the frequent downtime and other disadvantages of the shared hosting servers as compared to a VPS server or a dedicated server.

The advantage of having your reseller hosting account on a shared environment is that it becomes very affordable. This factor allows you or anyone to become a web host and start a viable online business. You can always upgrade to a VPS server or a dedicated server when the reseller business outgrows the shared hosting platform.

VPS Servers

Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting is actually a virtual server environment that is hosted on a node of the main
private server with several other VPS. While the cost of hosting on a VPS server is more than the shared hosting server, it is still much affordable than the private server.

The VPS server is an excellent option for you and your clients. As each VPS server is still a virtual part of a physical server that is divided into many such virtual servers, they all act as independent dedicated servers. The RAM, CPU, and the hard-disk space are physically shared by all the VPS servers.

But then, each VPS server can have its own operating system and can be configured differently. Each VPS administrator can have access to the root level of the main server where it is virtually hoisted, and can have more control like installing softwares and setting user permissions, and working just like an administrator of a private server.

The VPS servers are also more secure and can be extremely difficult for the hackers to do any serious damage to the other websites even if they break into one of the VPS servers, as each VPS server is ‘invisible’ to the other VPS servers residing on the single private server.

All these advantages can be used by the reseller to provide better service to the clients. The above controlling features of the VPS server are not available with the shared hosting server.

Hence, VPS server account is a far better cost-effective option for the resellers than the shared reseller account. When it is time to upgrade to a VPS server from the shared server environment, your web hosting company can easily help you move to the VPS server account without any technical trouble or causing downtime to your clients’ websites.

Dedicated Server

A reseller should opt for the dedicated server only if he is completely familiar and experienced in all the aspects of hosting, and that includes billing and round-the-clock support for the clients. It is in the best interest for a new entrant in reselling hosting to either opt for the shared server hosting or the VPS server hosting.

The shared server hosting has its disadvantage, but it is great for the newbie who has an initial tight budget to opt for the VPS server hosting account, but has great marketing aspirations and wants the technical side of the hosting to be handled by the hosting company.

Once the reseller decides that his business needs the VPS control and power features, and learns technical aspect of the hosting business, then he can upgrade to the VPS server hosting.

A dedicated server needs you to know everything about hosting and also will need operations and technical support team that can give round-the-clock support to the client’s calls and complaints. You will be responsible for all activities on the dedicated server.

Then, there is the precise knowledge required for your business to survive the round-the-clock pressures of hosting, and unless you have good teams to handle the multiple tasks like accounts maintenance (both, financial and hosting accounts), for example, transferring accounts, configurations, taking care of security, installing softwares and their updates and patches, maintenance of hardwares and softwares, and so many other tasks that can be handles only by a team of experts.

You will have to handle all these tasks because the dedicated server is your responsibility. The hosting company provides you only the most basic but very vital help of their location and connectivity, along with a few others. Along these responsibilities, you will have to take care of the billing, support, and other technical and non-technical departments.

You will also have to tackle hackers’ and the virus’ problems too, and keep all your clients very happy with your service! The dedicated server happens to be very expensive option too!

So, it is just not possible for a new entrant, or a small-scale reseller hosting business to opt for the dedicated server account. Of course, you can still opt for the dedicated server, even if you are a new entrant, if you have the abilities required to manage a team of experts, who then can look after these specialized tasks while you concentrate more on the marketing aspect of the reseller business.

Of course, all the resources of a dedicated server that will be at your disposal. You can really be extremely flexible and creative with such massive power of the dedicated server, and can be really successful in the reseller hosting business. Unless you are sure that you can handle all these tasks, it is worthwhile to consider choosing between the reseller hosting package and a VPS server.

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