Reseller to VPS - Hesitation

[naushad]

Hi,
I wish to do following:

1. resell hosting by making my own packages (space, etc.) and
2. offer unlimited (virtually) space

Now since, I am already a reseller I guess these are not possible so; if I shift to VPS, I will probably be able to that? but, what about these then?

A. Will I still be able to retain my free WHMCS license?
B. If I have my 5 months to renewal, will my finance be adjusted from reseller to VPs?
3. Will hostgator still be monitoring my account as it does in reseller? (like sending emails about spamming, etc.)
4. Will hostgator still be supporting me with technical issues (considering naive in vps)

Please help.................. anyone or staff.

Thanks in advance

[striddy]

Originally Posted by naushad

A. Will I still be able to retain my free WHMCS license?

On this HG support page, http://support.hostgator.com/article...al-information the following is quoted.

We offer a WHMCS license at $5 per month..... (The $5 per month will always apply to VPS, even if you upgrade from a reseller account.)

[naushad]

Thanks Striddy for reply.
That will make it costlier for me. And what about my other concerns? anyone please.

[Ulatan]

I did the exact same thing, all they do is transfer the cPanel accounts, but you will lose your current packages, but the accounts will retain the old packages.

WHMCS is $5 per month which is reasonable.

VPS Level 3 and above is "FULLY MANAGED" and I know it too, because when I did PCI Compliance tweaking hostgator did most of the technical work.

Again, VPS is fully managed. Only thing they won't support is 3rd party applications such as a CMS, game servers, etc.

As for your 5 months renewal, they will apply that balance to your VPS, but I think you need to pay 1 month first.

[wyredwing]

WHMCS license will cost you + five dollars additional to the monthly cost of the VPS. So with a VPS, if the server cost 30 bucks a month and you need a WHMCS license, the server will then cost you 35 bucks per month,

[doulos]

Unless you know what you are doing, get at least a VPS3.

[naushad]

I am really happy to know this all. I know VPS is flexible. I should be shifting on to it soon and will update you all.
once again thanks for all the help.

[alemcherry]

I have no expert in reselling, but I do feel managing reseller accounts on a VPS is going to be more difficult.

1. Shared hosts(like HG) offer unlimited resources, but they do monitor the CPU usage of each account and suspend the high resource sites ASAP. If you follow similar model, it will be difficult for you to manage.

2. Hostgator will take care of technical issues related to LAMP / Hardware, but they will not monitor individual accounts like they do on shared hosting. There is limit on number of emails sent per hour etc, which they are not going to take care of.

Personally I recommend using reseller account itself, as it means less headache to you. Even with so called fully managed server, you will need to spend time on monitoring server, accounts etc.

[skyrim77]

Originally Posted by alemcherry

I have no expert in reselling, but I do feel managing reseller accounts on a VPS is going to be more difficult.

1. Shared hosts(like HG) offer unlimited resources, but they do monitor the CPU usage of each account and suspend the high resource sites ASAP. If you follow similar model, it will be difficult for you to manage.

2. Hostgator will take care of technical issues related to LAMP / Hardware, but they will not monitor individual accounts like they do on shared hosting. There is limit on number of emails sent per hour etc, which they are not going to take care of.

Personally I recommend using reseller account itself, as it means less headache to you. Even with so called fully managed server, you will need to spend time on monitoring server, accounts etc.

Agreed it is definitely more difficult on a VPS I know from experiance.

[doulos]

Originally Posted by skyrim77

Agreed it is definitely more difficult on a VPS I know from experiance.

How so? What is more difficult?

[Ulatan]

Trust me a VPS is a step up from a reseller account especially if you are hosting CMS websites. My CMS websites became almost 4x faster when I upgraded from reseller. Not sure why, but probably has to do with a faster connection. If you WGET a 100mb file from cachefly.com I reach about 11.9MB/s howver on a reseller it starts out slow below 400KB/s and gradually rises to 2MB/s

[ruth77]

Originally Posted by Ulatan

Trust me a VPS is a step up from a reseller account especially if you are hosting CMS websites. My CMS websites became almost 4x faster when I upgraded from reseller. Not sure why, but probably has to do with a faster connection. If you WGET a 100mb file from cachefly.com I reach about 11.9MB/s howver on a reseller it starts out slow below 400KB/s and gradually rises to 2MB/s

Same here had a huge speed boost.