It is up to the reseller that how they market their product. Basically when you are at a reseller level, you should only look to get clients through referring. Provide good support to them and I am sure those little numbers will bring many with them.

Then when you go with your dedicated machine, compete with the main providers and grow your network.

Resellers are most often using reseller hosting as a stepping stone to the time they can buy or lease their own server.

A reseller's hands are tied because it's the company they lease from that make the server setup and define it's resource usage.

I have found out that allowing plenty of memory for my clients php scripts to run actually lowers the load on my servers. Think about it. A script tries to run but uses too much memory. What happens next? The script keeps trying to rerun thus using more resources thanif it had been allowed to run to start with. And that's on;y one example of bad server setup practice a lot of hosts use to restrict their resources. My latest shared server has over 300 accounts on it and hardly ever gets over or even up to a load of 1 and it's a QUAD CORE so 4 would be approximately full load.

redham

Shared servers should always have restrictions set according to your plan about hosting number of sites on it.