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Hey everyone,
When we first got into business I decided to go with a quality reseller to cut costs. I know this reduces legitimacy to some degree, as everyone and their brother is a reseller of some company or another. But I spent several months testing services before I found, what I thought was, the best service.
Anyhow, in an effort to grow and to have more control over the technical aspects of hosting and to offer more freedom to my own clients I am curious about VPS settings.
Basically, I want to keep the reseller account. I'm very happy with the service as are my clients. I will host only shared hosting accounts with this.
The VPS will be used for redundancy, so in the unfortunate event the server experiences any downtime (Reseller server) the VPS would display our website, or at the very least a "We're working on our site, we'll be back online in a moment. Here is some important links.." page.
The VPS will also be used for one of the following things: Either where I can put my own resellers on or where I could put just a few 'semidedicated' (for lack of a better term) clients who require more resources and freedom than typical shared hosting can offer them.
Now, here are my questions...
1.) Can anyone point me in the right direction as far as setting up the VPS to display the main website in the event the server were to go out? How could I achieve total redundancy? Would I need to purchase separate WHMCS licenses for the two separate IP's?
2.) What sort of specs would you recommend for a VPS that is being shared by (5 or under) people with high resource sites? When I say 'high resource', I simply mean anything that would typically be frowned upon in a shared hosting environment, like a semi-popular forum, large e-commerce site, small social network, etc. I think I am in the position to just tell the company I am getting the VPS from what I need, and they can deliver it. (They don't list VPS on their site, just helping a good customer out )
3.) Can the VPS do both?
I'm just wanting to expand a little bit, and while I currently have full root access on the reseller server I am on and the ability to 'master' resell, I'd honestly rather keep my alloted space reserved for shared hosting accounts and use the VPS for other things. My technical knowledge is a few steps behind my business knowledge, but I'm looking forward to having more control.
When we first got into business I decided to go with a quality reseller to cut costs. I know this reduces legitimacy to some degree, as everyone and their brother is a reseller of some company or another. But I spent several months testing services before I found, what I thought was, the best service.
Anyhow, in an effort to grow and to have more control over the technical aspects of hosting and to offer more freedom to my own clients I am curious about VPS settings.
Basically, I want to keep the reseller account. I'm very happy with the service as are my clients. I will host only shared hosting accounts with this.
The VPS will be used for redundancy, so in the unfortunate event the server experiences any downtime (Reseller server) the VPS would display our website, or at the very least a "We're working on our site, we'll be back online in a moment. Here is some important links.." page.
The VPS will also be used for one of the following things: Either where I can put my own resellers on or where I could put just a few 'semidedicated' (for lack of a better term) clients who require more resources and freedom than typical shared hosting can offer them.
Now, here are my questions...
1.) Can anyone point me in the right direction as far as setting up the VPS to display the main website in the event the server were to go out? How could I achieve total redundancy? Would I need to purchase separate WHMCS licenses for the two separate IP's?
2.) What sort of specs would you recommend for a VPS that is being shared by (5 or under) people with high resource sites? When I say 'high resource', I simply mean anything that would typically be frowned upon in a shared hosting environment, like a semi-popular forum, large e-commerce site, small social network, etc. I think I am in the position to just tell the company I am getting the VPS from what I need, and they can deliver it. (They don't list VPS on their site, just helping a good customer out )
3.) Can the VPS do both?
I'm just wanting to expand a little bit, and while I currently have full root access on the reseller server I am on and the ability to 'master' resell, I'd honestly rather keep my alloted space reserved for shared hosting accounts and use the VPS for other things. My technical knowledge is a few steps behind my business knowledge, but I'm looking forward to having more control.
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