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Posted by sammasati, 08-23-2001, 06:30 AM
I signed up with ***** last week. Can you feel my pain? I am a designer who wants to offer hosting to my clients as a complete package. Quality is very important to me. Needless to say I am getting ready to cancel my account there, and have been prowling around the archives to learn about other reseller providers. Having combed through many posts and sites I have questions about three: VenturesOnline HostingMatters Hostiva What are peoples experiences with these? Does anyone resell for all three? Last edited by sammasati; 08-23-2001 at 01:58 PM.
Posted by techforce, 08-23-2001, 02:28 PM
I must say your nutts if you dont check out www.mchost.com I am currently using them and i am very impressed with theier knowledge and fast response. the plans are great, service is super and uptime is nice too. Sorry i didnt answer your questions but i wanted to throw this at you. Brad
Posted by Chicken, 08-23-2001, 07:54 PM
I'd think it wold be highly unlikely to find someone who resold for all three of these, unless you meant individually.
Posted by sammasati, 08-23-2001, 09:54 PM
I have looked at McHost. Some of the factors I conciderd were; 1- McHost's Expert plan comes with 2 GB storage and 20GB bandwidth. It seems only one dedicated IP is included and unlimited subdomains with a price tag of $100 per month. VenturesOnline's VR5 comes with 500 MB storage, 20 GB transfer, one IP and 50 subdomains for $12.50. I haven't cleared this with them, but if I resold myself eight VR5 accounts that would give me 4 GB storage, 160 GB transfer, eight IP addresses, and capabilities of reselling 400 subdomains, all for the same $100 price tag. With McHost I can resell 20 accounts for 1 GB transfer, 100 MB storage. Cost per account $5.00. With VenturesOnline I can resell 160 accounts for 1 GB transfer, and 25 MB each. Cost per account $0.625. HostingMatters and Hostiva seem to have a similar setups. The questions is: How is their service, reliability, security, and integrity? Which one dominates? Is McHost's service and reliability so much better to justify paying $100 for 20 GB transfer vs. 160? Ryan Last edited by sammasati; 08-23-2001 at 10:05 PM.
Posted by techforce, 08-23-2001, 10:05 PM
well, what i like about them is I can post a question and it gets answered real quick, plus they dont give you that (stop bothering me) attitude taht some host do. I dont have experience with the other 3 but I have been with about 3 other companies and so far mchost is WAAAY above them.
Posted by sammasati, 08-23-2001, 10:08 PM
Why wouldn't someone resell with all three. Is it just these three too similar, diverse, what? Or is it taboo to resell for mulltiple providers? Ryan
Posted by sammasati, 08-23-2001, 10:11 PM
Has anyone else experienced the "(stop bothering me) attitude" with any of these three hosts? This is exactly what I am trying to get away from with *****.
Posted by Ericd, 08-23-2001, 11:00 PM
I don't think VO will let you resell the sub-domains for free...unless they changed their policy. They have excellent support though and don't mind helping you at all
Posted by MCHost-Marc, 08-23-2001, 11:06 PM
There is a difference in the structure between MCHost's and VentureOnline's plans. While at VO, you need to buy a separate plan/account for each domain name, our reseller plan allows you to host as many domains as you wish under one large plan. At VO you might pay $8,50 for 10GB Plan, but if your client only uses 1GB of transfer you're not able to simply use that bandwidth for the next account. We've designed our plans so that you can limit each domain's disk space, bandwidth, etc. and also add/remove disk space and bandwidth for each domain with a few clicks. Each hosting company has different needs and you will need to decide what plan is the best for your business.
Posted by sammasati, 08-24-2001, 12:38 AM
Erik from VO is on ICQ right now, but must be busy as he is not answering my request for chat. I looked on their policies pages, and their reseller page and did not see anything prohibiting this practice. If an FTP account is set up and a subdomain points to the directory, why would they care if droped one of my clients into that space gave them access to the FTP account and charged them for it? They may not allow it, but if they don't forbid it in their terms of use it may be ok to do? I don't know just thoughts on my end as I think about signing up with them. As I continue looking at packages they are becomingmore and more atractive. Ryan
Posted by ans_steve, 08-24-2001, 02:33 AM
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