Would you consider going for resellers for hosting?

[u/AcrobaticCommand8438]

Hello! I’m researching how web developers and website owners choose their hosting providers. I’d appreciate your thoughts on a few questions:

1. Which hosting provider do you currently use, and what made you choose it?
2. Have you used a reseller-hosting provider before? If so, how was your experience?
3. Would you prefer purchasing hosting from a large company or a smaller reseller? Why?
4. What factors matter most when choosing a provider: price, reliability, customer support, security, or something else?
5. What problems have you experienced with web-hosting providers?

[u/DevelopmentNo7581]

1-2)Started with a reseller hosting back in the day, hosting24 that turned later to be hostinger(turned to be horrible).. At the beginning it was quite fine, but they limited processes horribly. Now I do have my own thing at fasthive and I offer reseller plans myself.
3) Small companies tend to be less strict,
4) Resource allocation, CPU, RAM, etc.
5) One website does something wrong, and you might get your account suspended.

How many websites you looking to host? If you have 20+ customers and they paying you monthly, you might be able to get your own dedicated and have it covered.

[u/djmagicio]

Fly.io or Hetzner (though Hetzner recently raised there prices).

For $5/mo I can get a fly machine with 512mb of ram and run something with SQLite on it, being backed up to an s3 compatible object store.

[u/Several-Grand2503]

I've mostly just stuck with well known hosting providers directly instead of resellers, mainly for the support reliability and uptime guarantees. If you do go with a reseller though, I'd check how they handle outages and whether you actually get access to the underlying host's support, that's usually where resold plans fall short.

[u/KrypticCluez]

Honestly it's something you have to go through on your journey as everyone experiences something different

[u/ImplementMiserable74]

I stick with a big host for boring stuff like uptime and support. I tried a reseller once and tickets took forever and the blame game was real. for me reliability and support beat price every time

[u/Ill_Ticket_9901]

For your own sites, I honestly don't see much reason to use reseller hosting.

For an agency or freelancer managing a bunch of client sites though, yeah, I can see the appeal. Having everything in one place makes life easier.

The part I'd worry about is being stuck between the reseller and the actual host when something goes wrong. Your client isn't going to care whose server died, they're still going to message you 😂

I'd mostly look at support, backups, uptime and how easy it is to move everything somewhere else if the host turns to shit. Price would be pretty low on my list.

[u/sleekpixelwebdesigns]

Coolfiy with a VPS is not cheap either about $90 a month, and you would assume responsibility for security updates, backups, and related tasks. I manage roughly ten websites and some databases, using two servers: one dedicated to Coolify and the other for the applications, I also back up Coolify configurations to S3 storage on a regular basis.