Reseller Plans Comparison

Consider a scenario where you have 8 clients you are reselling or wanting to resell services to. For simplicity sake, you want to sell each of them a 10GB disk space plan:

Depending on what type of reseller account you have:
Allocation Based Plan With 50GB Disk Space Usage Based Plan With 50GB Disk Space Premium Reseller With 50GB Disk Space
Client #1
Allocated: 10GB
Using: 5GB		 Allowed
- You have allocated out 10GB of disk space on your reseller account.
- Your accounts are using a total of 5GB		 Allowed
- Your resold accounts are using a total of 5GB of disk space
- You have have allocated out 10GB of disk space		 Allowed
with increase performance!
Client #2
Allocated: 10GB
Using: 8GB		 Allowed
- You have allocated out 20GB of disk space on your reseller account.
- Your accounts are using a total of 13GB		 Allowed
- Your resold accounts are using a total of 13GB of disk space.
- You have have allocated out 20GB of disk space		 Allowed
with increase performance!
Client #3
Allocated: 10GB
Using: 9GB		 Allowed
- You have allocated out 30GB of disk space on your reseller account.
- Your accounts are using a total of 22GB		 Allowed
- Your resold accounts are using a total of 22GB of disk space
- You have have allocated out 30GB of disk space		 Allowed
with increase performance!
Client #4
Allocated: 10GB
Using: 3GB		 Allowed
- You have allocated out 40GB of disk space on your reseller account.
- Your accounts are using a total of 25GB		 Allowed
- Your resold accounts are using a total of 25GB of disk space
- You have have allocated out 40GB of disk space		 Allowed
with increase performance!
Client #5
Allocated: 10GB
Using: 8GB		 Allowed
- You have allocated out 50GB of disk space on your reseller account.
- Your accounts are using a total of 33GB		 Allowed
- Your resold accounts are using a total of 33GB of disk space
- You have have allocated out 50GB of disk space		 Allowed
with increase performance!
Client #6
Allocated: 10GB
Using: 8GB		 Not allowed
- You have reached your 50GB allocation limit.
- Even though your accounts haven't used 50GB, you've allocated out 50GB worth of disk space.		 Allowed
- Your resold accounts are using a total of 41GB of disk space
- You have have allocated out 60GB of disk space. You have over allocated, but your actual usage is under your limit.		 Allowed
with increase performance!
Client #7
Allocated: 10GB
Using: 9GB		 Not allowed
- You have reached your 50GB allocation limit.		 Allowed
- Your resold accounts are using a total of 50GB of disk space		 Allowed
with increase performance!
Client #8
Allocated: 10GB
Using: 7GB		 Not allowed
- You have reached your 50GB allocation limit.		 Not allowed
- This puts you over your 50GB of total disk space usage allowed.		 Not allowed
- This puts you over your 50GB of total disk space usage allowed.

Allocation Based Plans - Give you cost certainty, because you know exactly how much disk space you can allocate out. There's no surprise overages because your users can't use more than your reseller account has allocated to it.

Usaged Based Plans - Give you more flexibility, in that you sell larger plans, but you never know when you will go over your usage limits. You never know when your users will consume all of your available disk space.