Which is better, upgrade to reseller or move to new reseller?

[jonel]

I have shared account in HG, Baby croc in particular. Let's us call it xyz-abc.com. Now I want to have a reseller account, it is either called xyz-abc.COM OR xyz-abc.NET. What should I do?

1. Upgrade my Baby croc to Reseller and free my self of the transfer hassles. The downside is, I am using the the xyz-abc.COM which has a pretty good traffic and I don't want my readers to see a webhosting page instead of the usual article pages. If xyz-abc.COM will lost its traffic, money will be gone and it's all over.
2. Create a new Reseller account, preferably the aluminum package and used my existing "sitting-on-the-corner" domain xyz-abc.NET. The downside is, I will have two accounts in HG, one for Baby xyz-abc.COM and the other one is the new Reseller xyz-abc.NET which means I am going to pay two accounts. But since the other acount is a reseller, I can host xyz-abc.COM to Reseller... BUT I do the transfer of files and database myself, and I am not that techie to do that.

Which do you think is better, upgrade my existing account to Reseller OR buy a new Reseller account and move my existing account to it?

[striddy]

Originally Posted by jonel

Which do you think is better, upgrade my existing account to Reseller OR buy a new Reseller account and move my existing account to it?

I would ask HG about this in a ticket to "sales". I believe HG will assist you in moving from a shared server to a reseller server.

[GatorSteveN]

Either way you would have two accounts when switching from shared to reseller as we separate those two account types on different servers.

We do give an option to have a blank account if you do not need your files from your shared account.

Yeah, I know it's a little bit different than upgrades elsewhere but most hosts don't sell reseller accounts.

Shared to shared or reseller to reseller upgrades you do not have to change servers.

I usually tell people to upgrade about a week before the old one renews to allow enough time to transfer everything and cancel the old hosting plan.

[jonel]

I go with new account and avail one month free in Reseller, I will pay my shared host for another one month while I do the "COPY" (not move). I prefer to do it myself because I want to learn the process. I think COPY is better option when I do it myself than the MOVE process. If the outcome is not good, I would rather retain that account, anyway its earning.

I have another shared account that was paid for one year and will be due in 11 months, when that time comes, I think I am on my own of transferring that.

EDIT: My Reseller account is now active and believe me I availed one month free. I am now in the process of configuring the WHMCS.