If any one is operating several websites, each of them having their own domain name, then it will be very expensive to have separate web hosting accounts. Even if one’s hosting company offers paid feature like the add-on domain feature, then he/she will be charged a monthly fee for every added domain which will cost almost equal to the full hosting fee.
So its good to open a reseller account that are created to allow web designers to offer hosting services to their customers, to create a one-stop-shop for all their web design and hosting needs. However, in fact it’s not necessary for the one acquiring rehosting plan to be a reseller.
Rather reseller accounts are more expensive in comparison to regular hosting accounts, but they tend to allow its users to host different domain names without incurring in the add-on domain fees, make possible the utilization of available space and bandwidth more effective.
One must go for a reseller account that offers:
- Unlimited facility to add domain names.
- One should choose a reseller who will host his/her main website free of cost and also without using making use of available space and bandwidth in the hosting plan. In case of a reseller his main web site will be his business website and his space and bandwidth will be kept reserved for his customers. But if there is one who is not a reseller and just want to manage different websites then he can host any of his domain either the largest or most popular as his main website.
- There is also a possibility of upgrading to another plan without incurring any penalties or fees.
One should know very well that how many sites he is going to host and how many pages each site will acquire. Also one must know about how many visitors will those websites have, then only he can find out that how much the space and bandwidth is required. If one plans to host 10 sites with 20 pages each, at an average of 50KB per page and 100 page views per site per day, he/she will need 10MB of space (10 x 20 x 50KB) and 1.5GB of bandwidth per month (10 x 100 x 50KB x 30).
Regarding price issue, there are reseller accounts from web hosting companies like hostgator costing as little as $10 per month up to several hundreds (or even thousands). It all depends upon the requirement one is having and the hosting company one selects, so he should search out the best possible option in terms of cost and reliability.
