Reseller Hosting vs. Dedicated Hosting- Not sure when to stop selling reseller hosting and switch to dedicated hosting. Here are some tips from Best Reseller Web Host on when to start selling dedicated hosting instead of reseller hosting.

A lot of people will start out selling reseller hosting and find that they need to switch over to a dedicated server to continue a profitable business. Best Reseller Web Host has done a full article on what is reseller hosting, but in short we can that it is when a person buys some space on a dedicated server and is able to resell that space for a profit. Sounds good, but what happens when your client base gets too big?

Then it is time to switch to a dedicated server. Selling space on a dedicated server can be cheaper in the long run for people that have large client bases. You ask how that is possible because you have heard that dedicated servers are expensive. Simple, a lot of companies that sell reseller hosting will put limits on the number of clients you can have. For example, one particular company gives you the first 100 clients free. After that they charge you between $2 and $5 a client.

So if you have 100 clients on your reseller hosting plans, you probably are going to have a lot more than that. Even if you only had 150 clients, you are paying the extra fee on 50 of them. That could be an additional cost up to $250 a month. You can get a dedicated server for that much and not have these limits.

Additionally, you can offer more features to your clients by having a dedicated server. A lot of dedicated servers will offer more disk space and data transfer monthly allowing you offer more of that to your clients.

Don't get Best Reseller Web Host wrong, we love reseller hosting. We just want to make sure that you know it is not for everybody. Reseller hosting is great for people that want to offer web hosting as add on to their existing products. For example, you are a web designer and reseller hosting is perfect to offer your clients. On the other end, if you are strictly looking to do a major web hosting company, then you are going to large for most reseller hosting plans.

Best Reseller Web Host has done both reseller hosting plans and dedicated hosting plans. When we first started in the cheap web hosting industry, we used a reseller web hosting plan. After about 1 year we started to grow too much and wanted to offer more to our customers so we bought a dedicated server.

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