Reseller or Your Own Server?

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Reseller or Your Own Server?

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  1. SpacewardAsh

    SpacewardAsh Lurking From Space

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    OK, So you have lots of domains to host, which would you rather get? A Reseller Account or a your own server? and why?
     
  2. Kaiser

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    I would go with VPS If I had alot of things to host... not reseller is too much though.

    Shared hosting is great, but I just prefer one site on it.
     
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    I personally would go for a VPS, as it means your managing everything yourself (server, backups, addons, etc.) it may be more expensive in the long run but it's better for reliability and it cuts out the middle man if you need to restore a site from a cPanel backup for example.
     
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    I was hosted on my friend's reseller account for about a month, then I decided to get on a new shared server environment, now I have my own VPS - which nobody else has access to, or pays for.
     
  5. PixelPirate

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    I currently use a shared host. I have no problem with a shared host and I can stay pretty organized for having 3 domains. I do love the control that VPS's offer you, but theres no need for me to have one right now...so shared is where Im staying.
     
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    Yea theres no need to move to VPS while your site is still small, VPS is pretty expensive.
     
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    It's not that expensive. Hostpolar has some cheap and fast ones. I pay $30/month for mine.
     
  8. Kaiser

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    Thats cheap to you as you make alot more through ads then I do, so yea I cant afford to pay $35 monthly until I generate much more revenue.
     
  9. SpacewardAsh

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    I pay just under $35USD/month for mine, so you can get reasonably cheap VPS's. It just depends on what host you use, and how reliable they are...
     
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    Depends what I am hosting on it. If there only small sites ill use reseller. If there active ones then I would invest in a VPS
     
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    Small sites reseller? Do you mean shared?
    It dosent have to do with small or big. You forum can be very big and do just fine on shared hosting.. adminbb is big and its doing fine on shared hosting.

    So it depends.
     
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    I used Reseller, it was easy to navigate though using cPanel :)
     
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    Shared hosting is fine for me now, but when I have a larger forum I want to have a vps just for my forum.
     
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    You can run a large forum perfectly on Shared, but if its starts to get slow then you know its time to upgrade, AdminBB is pretty big, haven't had any problems yet. But when I do I will surely upgrade to VPS.
     
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    I think I would go with VPS...it might be expensive but its worth every penny :D
     
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    You mean Penney? VPS is not worth it when your website can do just as fine on shared hosting.
     
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    Penny would be the correct spelling ;) and this is not discussing shared hosting, but rather reseller hosting and if you had lots of domains to host, not just for one site, etc.

    In the past I have hosted 3+ domains on the same shared hosting account, and it just got too messy that I decided to upgrade it to reseller hosting as it was cheaper due to getting a good deal.
     
  18. Kaiser

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    Off topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penney
    Actually both words are correct and we were wrong to think only one was correct.

    And yea if I had 3+ domains I would definitely use Reseller and not Shared hosting.
     
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    Money talk, Penny is correct, Name terms: Penney or Penny would be correct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny ;)
     
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    Did you really have to "pwn" me like that? :P
     

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