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Buying Guides

How we weigh the options, which ones to walk straight past, what we'd buy. 100 guides on the shelf, all checked over for 2026.

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Annual Terms and Cash Flow

The gap between the term you buy on and the term you sell on, and how to bill so a mid-term exit is routine.

Beginner Accounts, Resold

The account to hand a non-technical client, what it costs you per month, and the four tickets that arrive first — written for resellers and agencies.

Billing Automation for Resellers

Why manual billing fails at chasing and suspending rather than invoicing, and the four places a reseller book leaks money.

Booking-Led Portfolio Builds

Cost per client account, the scheduler tickets that eat the care plan, and the handover terms to agree while everyone is still happy.

Bots and Automation Boxes

Which box resident processes belong on, how to keep them alive, and why your scripts and a client's bot should be apart.

Budget Dedicated Boxes

What a budget dedicated box is genuinely good at, what must never go on it, and the questions to ask before ordering.

Budget Reseller Packs

The per-account arithmetic, the overselling policy, and the size at which a cheap pack stops being cheap.

Budget WordPress Accounts

Why the floor on a cheap WordPress account is support time, what a cut price is cutting, and the tier to standardise on.

Builder or WordPress, per Client

Two client types, two support profiles, and how to price and sell both without inventing the worst product on your list.

Care Plans: Hosting That Pays

What the retainer buys, the account and disk arithmetic as the list grows, the surfaces that leak, and when billing needs software.

Certificates Across a Whole Book

Certificates across a reseller's whole book: what a lapse costs you, the four silent failures, and when a paid certificate earns its line.

Cheap Hosting You Can Still Resell

Where the reseller floor really sits, the support hour that eats the margin, and two pricing shapes that survive contact with clients.

Client API Backends

Who takes the call when a client's API fails, the controls you must own, and the limits to set before the first partner.

Client Application Hosting

Where to draw the support boundary on a client application, the runtime checklist, and the account to sell.

Client Email or Free Mailboxes

Why mail decides retention, what a free address costs you when it fails, and a migration sequence that does not produce complaints.

Client Mail and Campaign Sending

Why sending reputation is shared on a reseller shelf, where to draw the line, and the DNS work to do per client.

Client Mailboxes, Resold

Client email as a reseller product: the four tickets, the one-off deliverability job, and what mailboxes do to your allotment.

CMS Hosting for a Client's Editorial Team

Hosting a client's editorial team: admin speed, logins and leavers, and how to cost the support properly.

Control Panels for Resellers

The panel as a product decision: what the client meets, what it costs per account, and what switching later costs.

cPanel as the Product You Hand Over

cPanel from the reseller's side: which icons a client should see, how far branding goes, and why a standard build protects your exits.

cPanel or Plesk for Clients

The panel as your product's interface: familiarity, package mechanics, the cost of switching, and the four places a supplier leaks through.

Cron Jobs Across Client Accounts

Where the failure notice should land, replacing wp-cron across a fleet, execution limits, and keeping the job list auditable.

DDoS Protection for a Client List

Shared fate on a client list, what edge filtering absorbs, the note you send the others, and what credits you can honestly pass on.

Dedicated Servers, Priced for a Reseller

Bare metal for a hosting business: the cost-per-account sum, the specification, and what you take on with it.

DirectAdmin or cPanel Reselling

Licence curves against client familiarity, what changes when you buy wholesale, and how to move a client list between panels quietly.

Disk Speed as Ticket Volume

Storage speed as a support-volume variable: which client complaints trace back to it, what it cannot fix, and how to talk about it.

Domains and Hosting on One Client Account

Registering client domains: whose name goes on it, one renewal date, and the exit you should promise first.

Drupal Hosting for Institutional Clients

Drupal for institutions: the supplier answers, the deploy process, the cron heartbeat and the sizing call.

Drupal or WordPress, by Retainer

The client attached to each platform, the security obligation you are signing, and what a defensible retainer has to contain.

DV, OV and EV, Explained for Clients

What each validation level checks, who chases the paperwork, and how to keep certificate timing out of your launch plan.

Fast Shared Hosting for a Client Pool

Shared speed as a density problem: overselling as a tool, how to measure it, and what to promise a client.

First Stores as Client Accounts

Hosting a client's first shop without inheriting the business: scope, the failures that cost takings, and the four exclusions to write down.

Forum Hosting for a Community Client

A forum client in a shared pool: why caching does not help, whose deliverability it is, and what to charge.

Free Domains and Who Holds Them

The included domain from a reseller's side: who should be the registrant, how to keep DNS control, and the transfer that ends things cleanly.

Free Migration When Onboarding

The unbilled hours in onboarding, the incumbent who will not release credentials, and the mail that disappears at cutover.

Free SSL or a Paid Certificate

Why the easy certificate upsell is gone, the two jobs free certificates cannot do, and how renewal fails across an estate.

Game Server Boxes

Whether community game server work belongs in your book, how to size it once, and how to fence it off.

Git Deployment Across Client Sites

Deploy keys and whose they are, one release process across a fleet, and what the client inherits when the engagement ends.

Growing Stores on Your Allotment

The trading WooCommerce client on a reseller allotment: the three numbers to watch, when moving beats tuning, and how to reprice.

Hosting a Shelf of Side Projects

One account or several: where a multi-site plan is genuinely right, and the moment a project's first customer changes the answer.

Hosting an Affiliate Site Portfolio

An affiliate portfolio managed like a reseller's pool: the allowance, the failure point, and when to split.

Hosting When the Client's SEO Blames You

What hosting genuinely controls in a client's search performance, and how to prove it every month.

Hosting Your WHMCS

Why the cron run is your revenue, where WHMCS should live, and what a grey-market licence really costs.

Imunify360 Across Client Sites

Blast radius across a client fleet, what server-level defence sees, who pays for the clean-up, and what the other clients are told.

Joomla Hosting for a Client Account

One Joomla client in a WordPress book: the support arithmetic, and whether to keep, reprice or rebuild.

Joomla or WordPress, to Maintain

Auditing a site you did not build, staffing the maintenance, and quoting a rebuild in stages a client can follow.

Landing Page Hosting for Campaign Work

Campaign pages for clients: escaping per-visitor pricing, owning the leads, and what to charge instead.

Laravel Hosting for Client Apps

Hosting a client's Laravel app: the account shape, the deploy key, the monthly cost and the upgrade line.

LiteSpeed as a Client-Facing Story

LiteSpeed across a reseller's book: what is still per-site, which pages it never helps, and the mistake that leaves a plugin doing nothing.

Local Business Hosting, Resold

Local business hosting from the agency side: ownership, what the client sees, the cost of twelve accounts, and the Saturday failure.

Magento Hosting for a Retail Client

Inheriting a Magento client: the machine it needs, the patch owner, and the maintenance window to agree first.

Magento or WooCommerce, to Support

Support skill, cost per client and the bursts that break a flat retainer — plus when to refer a Magento build on.

Mail Filtering as an Add-On

Why filtering belongs on your price list, how to keep the quarantine off your desk, and how to add a domain.

Managed or Unmanaged, for Resellers

Unmanaged as a job description rather than a discount: the hours it costs, how to build a managed offer on it, and what to promise in writing.

Many Sites, One Account or Many

Addon domains versus separate accounts: what breaks when sites share, what separation costs, and the exit only one structure survives.

Multilingual Client Sites

What a multilingual client does to your allowance, who owns the structure decision, and where your scope ends.

News Site Accounts

What a regional pick-up does to a shared shelf, what the editors see while it happens, and the plan to sell them.

Niche Blog Accounts

What a niche blog account consumes, what to bill for the slot, and the ticket that arrives eighteen months in.

Node.js Hosting for Client Apps

Node for clients: what they see when it stops, where the supplier leaks, and how to price the watching.

Nonprofit Hosting for Agencies

The real cost of the pro bono site, the paperwork a treasurer needs, and the account structure that survives a change of volunteers.

One Account or One Each

Shared filesystem, shared allocation, shared suspension — what that means once the sites belong to clients, and how to split them out.

OpenCart Hosting for a Client Shop

A client's OpenCart shop: the extension inventory, the per-shop cost, and the peak-season freeze.

OpenCart or WooCommerce, Standardised

What a second cart really costs an agency, which one client staff cope with, and how to make store builds repeatable.

PHP Hosting for a Mixed Client Book

A client book across four PHP versions: the support hours it costs and the upgrade conversation that works.

PHP Versions Across a Fleet

Auditing an inherited fleet, where the version setting lives, the client who will not pay, and putting end-of-life in writing.

Portfolio Clients on Your Shelf

Portfolio clients as the tail that funds your reseller plan: what they ring about, how to price them, and the one thing that turns them loud.

PostgreSQL for a Client App

Reading the stack before the quote, where Postgres sits on the shelf, isolating one odd account, and what to charge for it.

Private VPN Boxes

Why an agency ends up running its own tunnel, how to size and set it up, and what to do about keys when staff leave.

Publisher Clients Who Spike

The publisher client on a reseller allotment: what a spike really costs, what to verify beforehand, and how to bill unpredictable traffic.

Python Hosting for Client Projects

Django and Flask for clients: triage, the version talk, the workers invoice and a clean handover.

Redis Object Caching for Client Shops

Diagnosing the slow-shop complaint, why another page-cache plugin will not help, and selling the fix with a number attached.

Renewal Pricing You Can Quote On

Why an introductory rate breaks a fixed retainer, where staggered renewals hurt most, and what to check before quoting a client.

Reseller Hosting, Costed

Reseller hosting costed per client: what the client sees, what breaks at forty accounts, and the three places a white label still leaks.

Reselling or Referring

What each model actually buys, the obligation attached to owning a client, and how the arithmetic diverges by year three.

Reselling WordPress: .com or Self-Hosted

Why only one side of this comparison can carry an agency's brand, what clients ask for in year two, and where the licences eat your margin.

Restores as a Support Product

Restores as a reseller product: who presses the button, what to bill, retention across a book, and the quarterly drill.

Secure Shared Hosting for a Client Book

Security from the reseller's side: blast radius, who pays for the clean-up, and the letter you send afterwards.

Shared or VPS for a Client List

Root access as a transfer of duties rather than an upgrade — what lands on you, what clients notice, and when a VPS genuinely pays.

Small-Business Accounts, Resold

The bread-and-butter reseller account: what trading clients expect, why mail drives the tickets, and how forty of them behave.

Small-Business WordPress Under Management

Selling a small-business WordPress site as a managed account: scope, update liability, the monthly hours at forty sites, and the handover clause.

Squarespace or WordPress for Client Sites

Which platform you can host, bill and hand over — worked through for a studio with a client book to feed.

SSH on Client Accounts

The bulk work a terminal pays for, what a client's shell exposes, and how to test a supplier's SSH story before you resell it.

Staging Clients Can Sign Off

Staging as a billable deliverable: what the client approves, the URL that leaks your supplier, and how to ration copies across a fleet.

Static Site Accounts

Why static client sites are your best margin, how to deploy a dozen of them, and how to answer the renewal question.

Student Hosting Accounts

Whose name is on the account, what it can carry, and the point at which hosting other people's coursework becomes a business.

Support Behind Your Support Desk

Where the client's call lands, escalating without naming your supplier, what the desk should cover, and how to test it first.

The Cheapest Box You Can Bill For

The cheapest server you can put a client on: what it holds, what owning it costs, and the pricing structure that keeps it profitable.

The Freelancer's First Reseller Plan

The freelancer's first reseller plan: what to stop doing, what to charge, what ten accounts cost you, and when it becomes a business.

The Money-Back Window, Read Properly

Two refund windows rather than one, what a policy reveals about a supplier, and the guarantee you should offer your own clients.

UK Hosting for a UK Client Book

Answering a UK client's questions about location, accountability and paperwork without conceding anything.

Upgrade Paths for Client Accounts

Which numbers justify an upgrade, how a tier change actually happens, and the day a client should have their own server.

Video Site Accounts

The quota arithmetic behind a video-led client site, the conversation to have first, and the plan to sell them.

VPS or Metal for a Hosting Shop

Cost per client account on each option, the failures you inherit, and the two moments a dedicated machine wins outright.

When a Client Outgrows Shared

When a client genuinely outgrows shared hosting: the four signals, what unmanaged means for an agency, and how to bill the management.

White-Label Reselling

A surface-by-surface audit of what can name your upstream supplier, and the reseller pack to start on.

Wiki Hosting for an Internal Knowledge Base

Hosting a client's wiki: privacy in two layers, the storage curve, and proving custody on day one.

Wildcard SSL for Subdomains

The subdomains your own brand needs first, where free automation is enough, and the tenant apps that outrun manual issuing.

Wix or WordPress, for the Reseller

Why a closed builder leaves an agency nothing to host, what a rescue involves, and how to quote the rebuild in stages.

WooCommerce or Shopify, for Agencies

Which platform leaves an agency with recurring revenue, what you inherit when the shop is yours to host, and how to survive December.

WordPress Toolkit for a Fleet

Bulk updates against per-site updates, the screenshot that settles arguments, and why the monthly report is the deliverable.

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