Hi,

Firstly, I apologise if my questions have been covered elsewhere, and if they have just give me a link and I'll check it out.

I am an existing lunarpages customer [basic plan]. I am a freelance web designer, and I want to be able to offer my clients a hosting service. I think the Lunarpages Reseller plan could suit me, however I have the following questions:

1. How many add-on domains come with the plan? If I offer my clients hosting, then they will need their own domains to point to my servers. If there is a limit, then how much does it cost for each additional add-on?

2. I will need to provide my clients with ftp access. They will also require access to phpMyadmin as I plan to offer them a database with their accounts. Does a reseller plan allow me to give individual database accounts to clients? If so, can I stipulate max queries and maximum storage?

3. I want to offer my clients statistics for their sites, just like I get in cPanel. Is this possible?

Finally, I notice that bandwidth and storage allowance are much lower with a re-seller plan. I understand that it's probably because a re-seller is more likely to use their allowance... however, how many websites could I realistically run without incurring server speed issues and such like stuff?

Best Regards
MF

That doesn't make sense to me. If I can get 10 add on domains and ten times the resources with a basic plan, why would I buy a reseller plan for every site I wanted to host? I could just buy a new basic plan and get 10 sites hosted!

Am I missing something here?

Thanks for the reply, by the way.

The way I'm reading this, it's like a re-seller account would really be me opening a normal lunarpages account for someone else... except they wouldn't have the resources that they would recieve if they opened their own Lunarpages account!

It's not quite what I had in mind for my clients.

Let me see if I can help explain the Reseller hosting plan.  With this special type of hosting plan you yourself can act as your own mini web hosting company.  The way Lunarpages reseller hosting is setup is a little different than other places.  Let me explain.

You start out with a large reseller hosting plan, and inside that plan you would buy more hosting packages.  With each hosting package that you buy you can then resell or give out the space to friend or clients.  Each reseller package would have 1000 MB of disk space and 100 GB/Month per month for bandwidth.  This space and bandwidth can not be upgraded individually.

Each reseller package would have it's own cPanel to manage the domain's interface and features.  For you, you would be issued a Web Host Manager (otherwise known as WHM) to manage all of the cPanels under your reseller hosting plan.

Here is what the billing would look like depending on how many clients you host under your reseller plan.

Rates For your 1st - 3rd Purchased Accounts (at regular Lunarpages rate)

1 Year pre paid account $7.95/mo NO SET UP FEE
6 month pre paid account $8.95/mo with a $15.00 set up
3 month pre paid accounts $9.95/mo with a $15.00 set up

Rates For your 4th - 10th Purchased Accounts

1 Year pre paid account $6.00/mo NO SET UP FEE
6 month pre paid account $7.00/mo with a $15.00 set up
3 month pre paid accounts $8.00/mo with a $15.00 set up

Rates for your 11th+ Purchased Accounts

1 Year pre paid account $5.00/mo NO SET UP FEE
6 month pre paid account $6.00/mo with a $15.00 set up
3 month pre paid accounts $7.00/mo with a $15.00 set up

Please note, setup fees and domain registrations are non-refundable.

I hope that helps and if there is anything else at all we can help you with please feel free to let us know.

Yep, MrPhil is correct about not being able to resell the shared hosting plans Basic, Business and/or Windows.  Would be against the acceptable use policy.


If you feel this way (and this goes for anybody, not just MrPhil) please feel free to drop an e-mail over to feedback@lunarpages.com.  That would be the most effective way to get your opinions heard on this issue.