03-03-2017, 09:27 PM
bik wrote:
My own experience with a reseller account was not good. Performance of the server I was on was much worse than the regular shared "business plan" server I had been on previously.
That might have just been my bad luck.
I have a reseller account...I have personally had great experience with mine (as have my client sites). I have not noticed poor performance, but I think this will vary from host to host depending on server hardware specs, network utilization and how oversold the server is (eg how many reseller accounts on a particular server).
But, yes, a reseller account will give you the ability to keep different domains/accounts separate, as much as you'd like. If performance is important to you, be sure to buy a reseller account from a host that doesn't appear to oversell their servers too much. If it looks too cheap to be legit, they are likely overselling/overstuffing their servers. Quality hardware, support and bandwidth is not free. A server that costs a host $100/month (number pulled out of thin air) to run has to make enough money to cover the hardware costs, bandwidth costs and support costs. If a host can sell 20 x $5/month accounts, that's one thing. But if they stuff 40 of those same $5 accounts on the same hardware, you will see performance suffer. I understand (and have seen first hand) that most sites don't use a ton of compute, disk, transfer resources. But if someone on one of those 40 accounts add a moderately high-trafficked site, watch out. If 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 high traffic sites get added, you're really in for a world of pain. You have no way to know how many accounts are on a server. But, you're probably better off spending just a little more money in the hopes that you get reasonable performance on all aspects of the site.
good luck!