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[sellportal]

Hi J,

>Do the buyers of the reseller accounts need to register a domain or do
>they get a sub-domain off the originally registered domain?

A reseller account is like a large parking lot. After buying (or renting) you have to get the cars (domains) to park there!

So, no, there are no domains in a reseller account as it only deals with the server and related software/scripts. It may look like some people have domains included as they make bundled offers.

> I've seen forum signatures with multiple sites listed, is it possible that
> these webmasters purchased a reseller account and are using it to host
>several web sites as a lower cost solution?

Very likely!

It's very cost effective. There are some drawbacks but they apply mostly when you get more advanced with heavy linking, site cluster, minisite networks and other methods to create linking/PR.

I haven't really seen any problems hosting many sites in one reseller account as long as you create "real" sites and avoid hosting like 20 cookie-cutter adsense sites, or 10 sites about cats, all with the same articles in them as content.

>Lastly, what about server space, bandwidth etc.. can it be easily
>changed if a site hosted on a reseller account becomes popular?

Using reseller accounts with Cpanel (the most commonly used linux configuration panel) makes these changes very easy.

Click in the menu, choose what domain to change in a list, enter the new value and click ok!

You're still bound by the maximum bandwidth/space in your reseller account though. But you can more the numbers around your domains and change as you wish.

And you can always upgrade your reseller account to include more space and bandwidth!

Kenth

[jpatriar]

Thanks Kenth,

I appreciate the quick and detailed answers.

Happy New Year!
J

[sellportal]

You're welcome,

and a Happy New Year to You as well!

Kenth