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Originally Posted by charlesgan
featuring the overselling is allow, this is a good features. not many reseller plan allowing this.
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Originally Posted by Karooki
I don't think overselling is a good thing. You'll have much downtime in future.
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I completely agree with you Karooki! Overselling is probably one of the easiest ways to get into big problems when running any kind of hosting service.
If you stop for a moment and think about it, then 100 GB for every customer seems to make sense, knowing full well that most of them will only use 1 GB.
The problem comes when you get people using more of their limits - perhaps their site becomes really popular, or they're looking for the cheapest plan they can find which the "capacity" they need.
When this happens you have to start suspending accounts / asking people to upgrade etc. even when they're not over their limits - a sure way to get into trouble, perhaps even legal trouble!
Either way, you can expect bad publicity and a lot of unhappy customers as a result. The alternative is that you let them go on and use a large portion of your service which either leaves you out of pocket (because you sell so cheap), and/or leaves your service poor/unreliable for all customers - overloaded servers etc.
So for exactly the same reasons that you should select a hosting provider offering sensible resource limits at a sensible price (i.e. so that your hosting will work - they're not overselling), you should also avoid that same pitfall yourself as a reseller.
With regards to finding a reseller - unless a provider stipulates that you can't resell their services (I would suggest that you actually ask them to be safe, rather than relying on it not being in their t&c's) you can most likely resell that plan.
Again, you'll find that those providers who are overselling won't be willing for you to resell from a plan that isn't specifically intended for "resellers" - because they're scared you'll want to use the majority of resources "offered".
However, since you want to avoid those companies anyway - not a problem!
Take a look around for some decent hosting companies, and send them some emails etc. to see what they can offer you. You should look to do this anyway (rather than just pick a plan off a page) because as a reseller you want to build a good relationship with your provider/partner because they'll be there to advise you and keep your service working.
If you find yourself talking to lots of different people in the company and/or people who don't know what they're talking about - perhaps not the best provider to rely on given that your reputation will depend on their ability to operate a decent hosting service (and fix problems promptly etc.).
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