Advantages and Disadvantages of Having a Reseller Account

Advantages

- You can have more flexibility with your web hosting accounts.

- You can save money.

- You can earn more revenue at little cost to yourself.

- You can focus on customer support and leave technical support to your web host.

- Your web host, not you, absorbs server maintenance costs.


Disadvantages

- Your service is only as good as your upstream provider. If the server is frequently down, for example, you may lose clients.

- If you ever have to change web hosts, the move will be an inconvenience for your clients as well as for yourself.


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Article written by Staff, WebsiteSource.com

Lois S. is a Technical Executive Writer for http://www.websitesource.com and http://www.lowpricedomains.com with experience in the website hosting industry.


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