They told you: "Get a reseller plan to host all your client sites cheaply."

They told you: "Get a reseller plan to host all your client sites cheaply."

Reseller hosting: the affiliate-favorite upsell for freelancers. Follow the money — bigger plan, bigger commission.

The tradeoff nobody draws:
— Reseller: all your clients on ONE shared box. One client's traffic spike or hacked site drags every other client down. Single point of failure.
— Separate small accounts (or a managed VPS): isolation, blast radius contained, but more admin.

You bought a discount and a shared fate. When one client's plugin gets exploited, you explain the downtime to all twelve.

Reality: reseller bundles your clients' risk together — cheaper per site, catastrophic per incident.