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Comparing the price between the original vendor and resellers.

Following the article "How many independent shared hosting companies are there?", I was curious to see how resellers compare to the original plan. Since the original vendor and the resellers share the same platform and the same technical team, the main difference should be the price. Which is cheaper: the reseller or the original vendor?

GoDaddy vs. resellers

The basic plan starts at $4.99/month with a 3-month contract. You can see all the details of the plan here.

Some of the GoDaddy resellers offer the same plan:

• http://www.sfwebhost.com/ $4.95/month (on sale, regular price is $9.95/month)
• http://www.snndomains.com/ $3.99/month (-20%)
• http://www.webmassala.com/ $5.39/month (+8%)
• http://www.eserveglobal.com/ $5.75/month (+15%)
• http://www.nolabydesign.com/ $3.99/month (-20%)

SF WebHost (Reseller) & GoDaddy

Fatcow & others

Fatcow's plan is $66/year. Fatcow belongs to the Endurance International Group which offers the same hosting plans through multiple companies:

• StartLogic $83.40/year ($6.95/month) (+26%)
• Pow Web $58.56/year (-11%)
• Dot5 Hosting $59.40 (-10%)
• Globat $53.28 (-19%)

Price varies between resellers. It can be financially advantageous to use a reseller rather than the original vendor.

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