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Originally Posted by Riceman

I beg to differ on your opinion about "small-fish".
Using a reseller is often the cheapest option to go for when starting up your community, they often dont have limits on database sizes and will provide adequate storage space. My last host was a reseller, and I'm upset I had to switch hosts after HIS "BIG-FISH" crashed their server and lost all the data (and the small-fish even kept a backup for us).

Also, in my experience dealing with my previous reseller, I was able to talk to him on IRC with any problem I had (this wasn't the official means of communication) and he (or his worker) responded within 5 minutes of making a ticket.

I know one person who has gone with a reseller and been scammed, however I know even more people who have had a successful hosting experience with them.

Other then that, I really liked the article. Its a great thing for people who arent too technical or are just starting out as a webmaster.

Well I'm not saying that *ALL* resellers are bad (and fly-by-night) webhosts. I'm saying most of them are. Its because now a days its so cheap to get your hands on a reseller account. You could get one for about $10/month on average.

I will agree. There are (of course) a few good reselling hosts out there. They want to actually move to their own servers and everything. But still you should check.
There are 2 sides to a coin.

Originally Posted by cheat-master30

But the big hosts you give examples of do oversell, and saying you don't need more than assumes everyone's site is the same size and activity. Pick the host for how much space and bandwidth you actually need based on the size of site, and yes... you should be cautious of overselling.

But you've contradicted yourself. Pretty much all big hosts are overselling, which you say to avoid. Just pointing it out.

I will agree with you that a lot "big fishes" are into the overselling and even unlimited concept. But there are still a few good (not overselling) hosts out there. I'll be making a list of those hosts this week and I'll post it on my blog.