What should I choose?

[avataru]

Hello, everyone, this is my first post here and after looking around on the forums I decided to as you for advice.

I have a few clients that need me to design their websites and most of them don't have hosting yet since it's their 1st website. Also, I have a number of other websites including my own projects that I manage. Most of them are on sigle user accounts in various hosting places.

I decided to go one step further and find a web host to meet my hosting needs.

Here is where I need your help to find out what the best solution would be since I don't know what my needs are exactly. If you want you could also recommand a company but I'm more interested in finding out what I need.

The number of sites is not really big: 10-20 max in the beginning out of which max 3 are mine. Most of my clients' sites are simple informational sites, no forums, and only a few php scripts for form manipulation and visitor tracking. Also, most sites don't exceed more than 10MB each, but the emails might go as far as 100MB on some, so 500MB/site should be enough I guess. For the bandwidth i'm not sure. Currently none of the sites exceeded 3GB/month so to be safe I'd say 5GB/mo/site.

I don't have any experience of managing a webserver, except for apache/php/mysql config but even those are at a novice level.

So what is your suggestion? Dedicated (if I get one, will I be able to resell?), reseller? What would the best configuration be? Any company suggestion?
For a dedicated server, how big should the HDD be, what CPU would I need, how much memory, what control pannel, what OS, etc?

Thank you in advance and if you need further details I'll be here to answer.

[John Scott]

With that many sites involved, I'd recommend reseller hosting. Maybe try Autica?