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whats the difference between having a reseller account and having a virtual dedicated server account?

whats the difference between having a reseller account and having a virtual dedicated server account

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1. If your talking about webhosting servers - a reseller account is if you plan on selling hosting services to your customers. A dedicated server is one your using for your personal website.
2. With a reseller account you're effectively selling the hosting company's own packages (with your own branding, pricing structure etc as appropriate). These hosting accounts will come with the provider's standard limitations as they are just cookie cutter packages with generally little possiblity for customisation. They'll usually be much cheaper per account if you're doing a number of websites. A virtual dedicated server is a virtual computer (you are still sharing the actual hardware). However, you can install whatever software you want. You can setup hosting packages and resell them or you can use it to just run your website(s). You control what software your clients get to use, eg if your reseller package doesn't include Miva then you're stuck, but with a virtual dedicated server there's nothing to stop you installing it if you want it. So the upside is greater control, the downside is you'll probably have to do much of the configuration yourself. A dedicated server is slightly different again in that you have control of the full machine, so you're not sharing with anyone else. You have basically the same control as with the virtual server, but you have all the processing power, memory, disk space etc of the full machine at your disposal.