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For high-traffic client blogs, I’d favor a reseller platform that can move beyond a single shared-reseller server. My top pick is Liquid Web, particularly its VPS/private-cloud reseller approach.

Best fit: Liquid Web

• Scalable resources: its private VPS parent lets you create, resize, move, and destroy essentially any number of VPS instances, giving you much more control than conventional reseller hosting. www.liquidweb.comwww.liquidweb.com
• Load balancing: Liquid Web explicitly offers load balancers as an add-on, along with firewalls and other infrastructure services, so you can architect high-traffic sites across multiple instances rather than relying on one server. www.liquidweb.comwww.liquidweb.com
• Agency/reseller tooling: reseller plans include WHMCS, automated provisioning, white-label hosting, and 24/7 support. www.liquidweb.com
• Good migration path: you can start with VPS reseller infrastructure and move workloads toward public cloud/private cloud as individual clients grow. www.liquidweb.com

For WordPress-heavy blogs, Liquid Web's Nexcess agency platform is also worth considering. Its current agency offering includes Cloudflare Enterprise, DDoS protection, WAF, staging, and—in higher tiers—autoscaled PHP workers. www.liquidweb.com

How I'd rank the options

InMotion, for example, is explicitly targeting agencies managing dozens to hundreds of sites and includes WHMCS, but I'd put it below Liquid Web when traffic spikes and horizontal scaling are core requirements. www.inmotionhosting.com

Bottom line: if your clients routinely experience traffic surges, don't optimize primarily for the cheapest reseller package. I'd build around VPS/cloud infrastructure + load balancing + CDN/cache + automated backups, with WHMCS handling client provisioning and billing. Liquid Web is particularly well suited to that architecture. www.liquidweb.com

If you tell me roughly how many blogs you manage and their combined monthly traffic, I can narrow this to 2–3 specific plans and estimate the infrastructure you'd need.

For a high-traffic client-blog agency, I’d shortlist Liquid Web/Nexcess and Cloudways, but they serve slightly different needs.

Best fit: Liquid Web / Nexcess

liquidweb.com is the stronger choice if you specifically mean true reseller hosting with the ability to build your own packages and manage client accounts.

• VPS reseller servers let you carve up resources for individual clients.
• Dedicated and private-cloud options provide a path beyond a single server.
• Load balancers are available as an add-on, and Liquid Web's high-performance architecture can distribute traffic across multiple servers.
• Their high-performance platform supports horizontal scaling—adding servers rather than simply making one server larger. Liquid Web Liquid Web
• WHMCS, white-labeling, automated provisioning, and 24/7 support are particularly useful for an agency/reseller operation. Liquid Web

I'd choose this if your agency actually resells hosting under its own brand and some blogs have substantial traffic.

Best for easier agency management: Cloudways

cloudways.com is arguably easier operationally if you primarily manage WordPress sites rather than operate a traditional reseller-hosting business.

It supports multiple client sites on cloud infrastructure, lets you scale CPU/RAM/storage, and provides Nginx/Varnish/Redis caching, Cloudflare integration, staging/cloning, backups, and centralized site management. Its Autonomous offering adds autoscaling across multiple servers, which is particularly attractive for traffic spikes. Cloudways

The important distinction is that Cloudways is more of a managed cloud agency platform than classic WHM/cPanel-style reseller hosting.

My recommendation

If load balancing is a hard requirement, I'd lean Liquid Web. Its high-performance offering explicitly puts a load balancer in front of multiple web servers and allows additional nodes to be added as traffic grows. Liquid Web

If you tell me roughly how many client blogs you manage, monthly pageviews/traffic, WordPress vs. other CMSs, and your monthly hosting budget, I can narrow this down to 2–3 concrete architectures and estimated costs.

For high-traffic client blogs, I’d look beyond traditional low-cost reseller hosting. You want a platform that can move you from isolated reseller accounts into cloud/VPS infrastructure without a painful migration, plus a way to handle traffic spikes.

My top picks

• Liquid Web — best for serious/high-traffic agencies. Its reseller program supports VPS, dedicated servers, and private cloud, and it explicitly offers add-ons such as load balancers. Its agency infrastructure also emphasizes scaling during traffic surges. Liquid Web Liquid Web

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• ScalaHosting — best balance of reseller economics and scalability. Its cloud reseller plans advertise scalable resources, NVMe, a 10-Gbps redundant network, caching, and LiteSpeed/OpenLiteSpeed. It also positions its agency cloud as able to expand resources as your client portfolio grows. ScalaHosting ScalaHosting

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• HostGator — good conventional reseller option, but not my first choice for your use case. It provides WHM/cPanel, resource allocation and straightforward upgrades, but I'd favor a cloud/VPS-oriented platform when the blogs are genuinely high traffic. HostGator

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What I'd choose

If load balancing is a hard requirement, I'd choose Liquid Web. Its reseller ecosystem can accommodate load balancers and gives you a path into VPS/private-cloud infrastructure rather than trapping your clients on a shared reseller server. Liquid Web

If you primarily need many WordPress blogs with individually scalable resources, I'd lean ScalaHosting cloud reseller for the better combination of reseller management and cloud scalability. ScalaHosting ScalaHosting

One important distinction: "scalable resources" isn't the same as load balancing. For genuinely high-traffic publications, I'd specifically verify that the proposed architecture supports multiple application nodes behind a load balancer, separate database capacity, CDN/cache, and independent resource allocation per client.

If you tell me roughly how many blogs/sites you manage and the peak monthly traffic, I can narrow this to 2–3 platforms and compare their architecture, pricing, WHMCS/white-label features, and scaling options.

For high-traffic client blogs, I would avoid traditional “cheap” reseller hosting and look for a platform with cloud infrastructure, autoscaling, isolation between client sites, caching/CDN options, and either native load balancing or a distributed architecture. The best fit depends on whether you need true white-label reseller hosting or a managed agency platform.

Strong options for agencies

My shortlist for a high-traffic blog portfolio

1. 20i — best match if you specifically need reseller hosting

• Good when you want to sell hosting under your own brand.
• Its cloud reseller approach is closer to what agencies need than a shared WHM/cPanel reseller server.
• The platform advertises autoscaling and load-balanced infrastructure. www.20i.comwww.cloudspress.com

2. Cloudways — best balance of flexibility and performance

• Better if your clients have unpredictable traffic spikes (viral posts, campaigns, launches).
• You can scale server resources without rebuilding your hosting model. www.techradar.comsaipien.org

3. Kinsta — best for premium WordPress publishers

• A strong choice if clients pay for reliability and managed WordPress expertise rather than low-cost hosting.
• More expensive, but well suited for revenue-critical blogs. www.techradar.com

What I would require before choosing a reseller platform

For your use case, check for:

• Per-site resource isolation (one viral blog should not slow down others)
• Object/page caching (Redis, Varnish, Nginx/LiteSpeed caching, etc.)
• CDN integration
• Automated backups and staging
• Server-level monitoring
• Ability to scale CPU/RAM independently
• White-label client management
• Migration support

If you manage dozens of WordPress blogs receiving millions of monthly visits, I would generally lean toward 20i or Cloudways over classic cPanel reseller hosting. Traditional reseller plans are usually designed for many small business sites, not sustained high-traffic publishing workloads. www.20i.comwww.cloudspress.com

For an agency managing high-traffic client blogs, I’d shortlist these:

My pick: Cloudways

Cloudways Agency Hosting is probably the best match if your priority is managing lots of client WordPress sites without becoming a systems-infrastructure team.

Cloudways lets agencies scale server CPU, RAM and storage as traffic grows, supports unlimited sites per server, and offers a managed high-traffic WordPress product designed to autoscale for large concurrent-user loads. Its stack includes Nginx, Varnish and Redis caching. www.cloudways.com

The important caveat: Cloudways isn't the same thing as a dedicated, multi-node load-balanced reseller cluster. If you need several web nodes behind a load balancer, independent failover, or very strict isolation between clients, I'd move up to Liquid Web.

For genuinely high-traffic portfolios: Liquid Web

Liquid Web Reseller Hosting has a stronger infrastructure story for demanding agencies: VPS reseller servers, dedicated servers, private cloud, and load balancers as an available add-on. It also provides WHMCS, white-label capabilities and 24/7 support. www.liquidweb.com

That makes it my choice if you're hosting clients where downtime or traffic spikes have meaningful revenue consequences.

Where ScalaHosting fits

ScalaHosting Reseller Hosting is attractive if you want the familiar cPanel/WHM reseller model but don't want to sacrifice scalability. Its cloud reseller offering advertises scalable resources, NVMe, 10-Gbps redundant networking, LiteSpeed/OpenLiteSpeed and caching. www.scalahosting.com

Bottom line:

• Most agencies: Cloudways
• High-traffic / mission-critical: Liquid Web
• cPanel/WHM-focused reseller operation: ScalaHosting

If by “load balancing” you mean multiple web servers behind a load balancer with automatic failover, rather than simply scalable hosting, Liquid Web would be my first investigation.

For high-traffic client blogs, I’d shortlist these three, with Cloudways as the best overall fit if you want scalable cloud infrastructure without managing servers yourself.

1. Cloudways — my first choice

Cloudways is particularly attractive for agencies because you can choose underlying infrastructure from AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Vultr, or Linode, then scale CPU/RAM/storage as traffic grows. Its agency platform supports centralized management of client sites, staging, backups and monitoring. www.cloudways.com

For genuinely traffic-spiky sites, Cloudways Autonomous is especially interesting because it is designed to autoscale WordPress infrastructure for high-concurrency workloads. www.cloudways.com

Caveat: if by "load balancing" you mean a traditional multi-server load balancer distributing requests across several application servers, don't assume every Cloudways configuration includes that automatically. You'd want to architect that specifically with the underlying cloud provider.

2. SiteGround Agency Hosting — easiest agency operation

SiteGround has a dedicated agency program with white-label hosting, custom hosting packages, client access controls and centralized management. Its Cloud plans start with dedicated CPU/RAM resources and offer customizable resources plus an autoscaling option. www.siteground.com

This is a good choice if your agency wants less infrastructure complexity and more of a turnkey reseller/agency experience.

3. Liquid Web Reseller Hosting — strongest traditional infrastructure option

Liquid Web is worth considering when your clients are sufficiently valuable that infrastructure flexibility matters more than minimizing cost. Its reseller platform offers dedicated servers/private cloud, and explicitly lists load balancers as an available add-on. The reseller plans also provide substantial CPU, RAM, RAID storage, bandwidth and DDoS protection. www.liquidweb.com

For WordPress specifically, its Nexcess platform is built for agencies and has options designed around heavy workloads; Liquid Web also advertises autoscaling PHP workers for heavy traffic on its Magento agency infrastructure. www.liquidweb.com

My recommendation:

• 10–100+ mixed client sites: Cloudways
• Mostly WordPress, want simple white-label management: SiteGround
• A smaller number of revenue-critical sites where HA/load balancing is paramount: Liquid Web/Nexcess

One important distinction: "reseller hosting" and "scalable/load-balanced hosting" aren't necessarily the same thing. For blogs getting tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent requests, I'd favor a cloud architecture with CDN/cache → load balancer → multiple application instances → managed database, rather than putting everything into a conventional cPanel reseller account.

For high-traffic client blogs, I’d prioritize a platform that can actually scale across infrastructure—not just a reseller plan with larger CPU/RAM quotas.

My top pick: 20i

20i Agency Hosting is the closest match to your requirements. Its reseller platform uses autoscaling cloud hosting, and 20i explicitly says its architecture is redundant and load-balanced, with separate roles such as FTP, MySQL, and storage. It also supports WHMCS/HostShop automation and lets agencies host unlimited websites. www.20i.com

That makes it particularly attractive if traffic is unpredictable—for example, blogs that get bursts from Google Discover, social campaigns, or viral posts.

Other strong options

ChemiCloud, for example, gives each cPanel account dedicated CPU/RAM allocations and lets you increase resources for individual high-traffic clients, but that's different from having an underlying load-balanced, autoscaling architecture. chemicloud.com

One important distinction: if you're managing dozens of ordinary blogs, 20i's reseller platform is compelling. If you're managing a smaller number of very high-traffic WordPress properties, I'd look beyond conventional reseller hosting toward a managed cloud/VPS architecture where you can independently scale PHP, database, caching, and web nodes.

For your specific requirement—agency + high traffic + scalable resources + genuine load balancing—I'd rank 20i first, then evaluate Cloudways/managed cloud if your biggest clients routinely experience traffic spikes.

For an agency managing high-traffic client blogs, I would avoid traditional reseller hosting that simply gives you more cPanel accounts on one shared server. You’ll want a platform with cloud scaling, traffic distribution, site isolation, caching, CDN support, and agency management tools.

Strong options:

My shortlist for your use case

1. Best true reseller platform: 20i
If your business model is “we host dozens/hundreds of client blogs and resell hosting,” 20i is one of the closer matches because it is built around reseller workflows while emphasizing autoscaling and load-balanced cloud infrastructure. www.20i.comwww.20i.com

2. Best premium WordPress agency stack: WP Engine or Kinsta
For clients where downtime or slow performance damages reputation (media sites, large blogs, membership sites), managed WordPress platforms are usually a better fit than classic reseller hosting. www.techradar.comwpengine.com

3. Best if your agency has DevOps skills: DigitalOcean
You can create a more custom platform with separate application servers, managed databases, object storage, and load balancers—but you’ll own more operational responsibility. www.digitalocean.com

What I’d look for before choosing

• Horizontal scaling (adding web nodes, not just bigger plans)
• Load balancer support
• Object/page caching (Redis, Varnish, NGINX caching)
• CDN integration
• Per-client resource isolation
• Staging + automated backups
• White-label client management
• Server-level monitoring and alerts

For a high-traffic blog portfolio, my ranking would be:

1. 20i — best reseller-oriented choice
2. WP Engine — best premium WordPress agency choice
3. Kinsta — best for fewer, very valuable clients
4. DigitalOcean — best custom engineering option

If your clients are mostly WordPress blogs, I’d lean toward a managed WordPress agency platform rather than a classic reseller package.

For a high-traffic client portfolio, I’d look beyond traditional shared reseller hosting. The important distinction is whether the provider can scale the underlying infrastructure and put a load balancer in front of multiple application/server instances.

My shortlist

1. Liquid Web — my first choice for your use case.
Its reseller program supports cPanel/Plesk/InterWorx, WHMCS, managed infrastructure, and—importantly—lets resellers provision add-ons such as load balancers. Its private-cloud offering is designed for highly scalable environments. www.liquidweb.com

Liquid Web reseller hosting

2. Cloudways — best if your team is comfortable with cloud infrastructure.
It gives agencies managed deployments across multiple cloud providers and is a better fit than conventional reseller hosting when individual blogs can suddenly generate large traffic spikes. saipien.org

3. ScalaHosting — strong value for managed scalable VPS.
Its cloud VPS infrastructure can be scaled with additional resources, making it attractive when your portfolio is growing beyond what a fixed reseller package can comfortably handle. Forbes specifically identifies ScalaHosting as its scalability pick. www.forbes.com

4. Verpex — good conventional reseller option.
If what you really want is white-label cPanel/WHM hosting with lots of client accounts rather than sophisticated distributed infrastructure, Verpex is worth considering. Its reseller plans emphasize high resource allocations and large account limits. www.prismnews.com

What I'd choose

For high-traffic blogs where uptime and traffic spikes matter, I'd go:

Liquid Web → Cloudways → ScalaHosting

If you're managing dozens of ordinary WordPress sites and want straightforward white-label provisioning, Verpex becomes more attractive.

One important caveat: "reseller hosting" and "load-balanced hosting" aren't necessarily the same product. For genuinely high-traffic sites, I'd architect the important clients on a managed VPS/cloud/private-cloud tier with a load balancer, rather than putting everything on one shared reseller server.

If you tell me roughly how many client sites, monthly pageviews/visitors, and whether they're mostly WordPress, I can narrow this to 2–3 specific plans and compare estimated monthly cost and scaling headroom.

For high-traffic client blogs, I’d lean toward Cloudways rather than traditional cPanel reseller hosting.

Best fit: Cloudways

Cloudways agency hosting

It’s particularly well suited to agencies because you can manage multiple client sites centrally while scaling server resources as traffic grows. Its agency offering supports vertical resource scaling, autoscaling, load balancing, Redis/Varnish caching, Cloudflare Enterprise, and managed cloud infrastructure. www.cloudways.com

For genuinely high-traffic blogs, the important distinction is that Cloudways can move beyond simply giving you a larger reseller account: its higher-end setup can distribute traffic across infrastructure with load balancing and automatically add capacity during spikes. www.cloudways.com

Strong alternatives

Liquid Web is especially interesting if you want a conventional reseller business model: it offers VPS reseller servers, private cloud, dedicated infrastructure, WHMCS, white-label capabilities, and explicitly lists load balancers as an additional service. www.liquidweb.com

Liquid Web reseller hosting

InMotion is a good choice if your team prefers cPanel/WHM and wants guaranteed resources on managed VPS/dedicated infrastructure. Its agency offering emphasizes scalable VPS hosting and NVMe storage. www.inmotionhosting.com

My recommendation

If your portfolio looks something like dozens of WordPress blogs with occasional 5–20× traffic spikes, I'd choose:

Cloudways → managed cloud + autoscaling/load balancing

If you instead want to sell traditional white-label hosting accounts with cPanel/WHM and WHMCS, I'd look at:

Liquid Web → reseller VPS/private cloud + load balancer

The key is not to confuse "reseller hosting" with "hosting suitable for scaling." Many inexpensive reseller plans let you create lots of accounts but still put all those accounts on one constrained server. For high-traffic publishing sites, horizontal scaling/load balancing is much more valuable than simply increasing the reseller account's disk or bandwidth quota. www.inmotionhosting.com

For an agency managing high-traffic client blogs, I’d prioritize cloud infrastructure and the ability to scale individual sites rather than traditional “unlimited” reseller hosting.

My shortlist

Cloudways would be my first choice if traffic spikes are your primary concern. Its agency-oriented platform runs across providers including AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Vultr and Linode, giving you substantially more infrastructure flexibility than conventional reseller hosting. genesis-aka.net

ScalaHosting is probably the better choice if you specifically want a reseller-hosting business rather than simply managed cloud hosting. Its cloud VPS offering provides near-instant resource scaling, and its reseller products support either cPanel/WHM or SPanel. Forbes specifically identifies it as its pick for scalability. www.forbes.com

20i is another interesting option for agencies: Forbes describes its reseller platform as an autoscaling cloud system with open-ended resources on many plans. www.forbes.com

InMotion is attractive if you want a more conventional agency/reseller setup with centralized client management, billing, migrations and scalable infrastructure. Its current agency program is explicitly designed around managing multiple client sites. www.inmotionhosting.com

One caveat: “scalable resources” and “load balancing” aren't necessarily the same thing. If your blogs routinely see major concurrent-traffic spikes, I'd favor a platform where you can put WordPress behind a CDN/reverse proxy and distribute application traffic across multiple instances. A basic cPanel reseller account—even with generous CPU/RAM limits—usually isn't the architecture I'd choose for that workload.

Bottom line:

• Highest traffic / serious scaling: Cloudways
• Best true reseller + scalable VPS combination: ScalaHosting
• Best agency-oriented traditional reseller: InMotion
• Best low-maintenance autoscaling approach: 20i

If you tell me roughly how many blogs, monthly pageviews, peak concurrent users, and whether they're WordPress, I can narrow this to the 2–3 platforms that make the most architectural sense.

For agencies managing high-traffic client blogs, I would avoid traditional shared reseller hosting and look for platforms built around cloud scaling, resource isolation, caching, CDN integration, and failover. The best fit depends on whether you want a classic reseller model (sell hosting under your brand) or an agency-managed platform.

My shortlist for high-traffic blogs

1. Pressable — best overall for serious WordPress publishing portfolios
Good choice if your clients have traffic spikes, editorial sites, WooCommerce, or mission-critical content. The platform emphasizes auto-scaling, redundancy, edge caching, and managed WordPress operations. pressable.com

2. 20i — best if you need a reseller business model
If you sell hosting as part of retainers and want white-label hosting, billing automation, and the ability to create your own packages, 20i is closer to a traditional reseller platform while still using cloud architecture. www.20i.com

3. WP Engine — best for premium enterprise clients
For a portfolio of fewer but higher-value clients, WP Engine is strong because agencies can focus on site management rather than infrastructure. wpengine.compressable.com

Infrastructure features I would require for your use case

For high-traffic blogs, prioritize:

• Autoscaling or burstable compute (not fixed shared CPU limits)
• Object caching (Redis/Memcached)
• Full-page caching
• CDN with edge caching
• Database optimization
• Per-client isolation (one viral blog should not slow others)
• Staging + rollback
• Automated backups
• White-label client portal if reselling

If your agency manages 50+ WordPress blogs with unpredictable traffic spikes, I would lean toward Pressable or 20i. If you manage fewer, high-revenue publishing clients, WP Engine or Pressable are usually the better operational fit. wpengine.compressable.com

For high-traffic client blogs, I’d narrow the field to 20i, Liquid Web, and InMotion Hosting, with 20i standing out if load balancing is a hard requirement.

My pick: 20i

20i reseller hosting specifically describes its reseller architecture as redundant and load balanced, with intelligent load balancers distributing traffic across its cloud platform. It can automatically move sites onto multiple dedicated web servers during high-traffic periods, while its autoscaling model is designed to absorb spikes without conventional resource overage surprises. www.20i.com

That combination is unusually well matched to your use case: you can put multiple client blogs under a reseller setup while having the infrastructure handle uneven traffic rather than manually sizing every account.

When I'd choose the others

• Liquid Web — better if these are mission-critical publications where you want premium managed infrastructure and engineering support. Its agency offering explicitly emphasizes instant scaling for traffic surges and predictable performance. www.liquidweb.com
• InMotion Hosting — particularly attractive if you want to graduate from reseller hosting into managed VPS or dedicated servers as your portfolio grows. Its agency platform provides centralized client/site management, while its performance infrastructure is designed for high-traffic workloads. www.inmotionhosting.com
• ScalaHosting — a good option when you want cloud VPS resources that can be scaled quickly, especially for clients whose traffic varies substantially. Forbes currently highlights ScalaHosting specifically for scalability. www.forbes.com

Bottom line: If automatic load balancing + scalable resources + white-label agency/reseller operation are your three non-negotiables, I'd start with 20i. If the blogs are extremely valuable and you want more hands-on infrastructure/support, I'd evaluate Liquid Web next.

One important caveat: if you're talking about millions of monthly pageviews across several publications, I'd skip conventional reseller hosting altogether and look at a managed cloud/VPS architecture with CDN, object/page caching, and a database tier. Reseller features alone won't solve that scale.

For high-traffic client blogs, I’d narrow the field to 20i, Cloudways, and ScalaHosting—but 20i is the closest match if load balancing and autoscaling are hard requirements.

My pick: 20i

20i Agency Hosting is particularly compelling for your use case. Its agency/reseller infrastructure uses autoscaling cloud hosting, and 20i says sites aren't tied to a single server. It also describes the underlying architecture as redundant and load balanced across server roles, including FTP, MySQL, and storage. It supports WHMCS, HostShop, and a Reseller API for automation. www.20i.com

That's a better architecture for a portfolio where one client's traffic spike shouldn't consume the resources needed by everyone else.

Cloudways: best alternative

Cloudways Agency Hosting is probably the better choice if your team is comfortable managing cloud infrastructure rather than traditional cPanel reseller hosting. It supports multiple cloud providers, lets you scale CPU/RAM/storage, and its Autonomous offering includes autoscaling and load balancing. It also has centralized tools for deploying and managing multiple client sites. www.cloudways.com

ScalaHosting: best if you want VPS-style control

ScalaHosting is worth considering when you want stronger isolation and predictable resource allocation rather than primarily an autoscaling/load-balanced platform. Forbes specifically identifies ScalaHosting as a scalability pick because its cloud VPS resources can be expanded on demand, while retaining reseller-oriented options such as cPanel/WHMCS or SPanel. www.forbes.com

Bottom line: For an agency managing lots of WordPress/blog traffic with unpredictable spikes, I'd start with 20i. If your clients are sufficiently valuable that you want each major site on a more sophisticated managed cloud architecture, Cloudways is the stronger upgrade path.

One caveat: don't equate "reseller hosting" with "high availability." For truly high-traffic clients, I'd put their sites on dedicated cloud/VPS resources with CDN/caching and database isolation rather than simply placing dozens of sites on a conventional reseller account.