How experienced are you with web hosting?  If not very - you might go with the reseller route and if you know your way around a sever or you want to learn, then VPS or dedicated might be a good route to go.

Hi OOzy Pal,

Let me to try to reply on your questions.

You can re-sell on VPS and dedicated servers and you have full access to all settings on them including php.ini.

As for the differences between reseller, VPS and dedicated plans. On the reseller plan, you just get an interface to manage accounts you resell, but their limits and server configuration are pre-defined and managed by Lunarpages. You can create custom php.ini on each account still here, but some other server side configurations will not be available for you. You can consider this plan as you get on a shared server with access to some features to manage accounts.

On VPS, you have full administrator access to the server where you can make any configuration changes. Here you can have your limits on the accounts as they suit you. But VPS servers do not have a lot of resources available and I would recommend it for one site with near to medium popularity or a few dozen of simple sites like just a couple of html pages.

Finally, dedicated servers have much more resource available along with all advantages of the VPS plan.

So, what to choose depends on the experience with web hosting as Mitch mentioned with reseller plan for those who don't want to take care about the server or just doesn't have a time to get skills in server administration via VPS plan to dedicated servers for reselling person with mutlitple clients.

Depending on how much clients you have and the popularity of their sites and keeping in mind your Linux experience, I would recommend you to start with a VPS or dedicated server to have some more ability to change server settings as per the needs of you and your customers.

I hope this helps. Please advice if you have any further questions or concerns.

In reply on your questions:


Yes, for VPS and Dedicated plans. On reseller one, you have a default theme without any brands which is not customizable.


Control panel can be only one on the server. But if you mean 40 different accounts for users in it, yes, you can have that (keep in mind, Plesk licensing costs depend on the amount of accounts the license is for).


Sorry, I'm not sure I got you here. Can you please elaborate on this question.


It is hard to define "medium popularity site" as server load and resource usage depend not only on the amount of site visitors but also on how well the site handles the load. Using that term I wanted to say that hosting a site with hundreds of concurrent users whose requests go to multiple scripts (like popular forums for example) in VPS is almost impossible.


VPS management is your responsibility like on dedicated plan as well.


Since server managed is your responsibility on both VPS and dedicated plans, the security of your server is also your responsibility as nobody else can know how the server is setup to secure it.


Yeah, sure. We will be helping with issues like this.

I hope this helps. Please advise if you have any further questions or concerns.

Control panels usually allow access to account management functions such as emails, FTP accounts, redirector setups etc. etc. if you login under the username on the account.


Yes, server security is your responsibility as the server owner. With managed intense addon, the security upgrades of most important components such as server kernel will be handled by LP staff. Please also be advised, control panel usually make the updates easy to handle, if you don't have very customized setup.


It will be our reseller accounts we offer on the server plan then. Why we can't offer full management for dedicated and VPS servers as there would be too many differences between each different server purchased and managed by different user which would slow down the administration work as well as can be the cause of confusion.