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Originally Posted by whym
It would be advisable to probably buy a reseller account or VPS if you are planning to host 23 domains - remember that if you don't pay much, you shouldn't expect much!
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I completely agree with this.
Multi-domain shared (including reseller) hosting is ok, and perfect for some people. However, if you're hosting 23 domains (i.e. 23 sites) then my guess is that at least 1 or 2 of those are pretty important to you.
Therefore you would probably want to have the reassurance of your own server environment giving you better security and (providing that whoever is responsible for looking after the VPS knows what they're doing) better reliability.
With the right provider, you should also be confident that you're getting a guaranteed amount of server hardware resources (CPU time, RAM etc.).
One thing to keep in mind however is that the specs of the underlying hardware are completely irrelevant to you. If you're the only VPS on a 1.8GHz P4 then you'll still be getting much more performance than someone with a VPS on a multiprocessor Quad-Core 2.4 GHz system if they're sharing that with 50 others!
Bottom line - any decent hosting provider will manage their servers properly to ensure good performance and reliability. The problem is that if you want that kind of service then you have to be prepared to pay for it - so don't be tempted to look for the cheapest option... it probably isn't the best value one!
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