Hi, my name is Josh Best. I am the owner of Inoverse Web-Hosting at www.inoverse.com. I'm just trying to get some feedback on a couple of semi-dedicated plans that we might start offering if the feedback is good. These plans will be hosted on a Cobalt RaQ4i and there will be around 5 of these accounts on one server. Here is what is offered:

$40/Month
3 Gigabytes
50 Gigabytes Bandwidth
Only 1 Domain Per Account
Unlimited E-mail
Unlimited Subdomains
CGI, PHP4, ChiliSoft ASP, Perl5

Just curious as to what people would think of these plans. Also if you have any suggestions please feel free to give them to us. We are not certain that we will do this and we are not currently offering these plans, but any feedback is certainly welcome. Thanks.

Hi..

How about if I want to take more than 3 GB, like 30 or 50 GB space and than 100 GB bandwidth ?

Erda

Sounds pretty good except for the only 1 domain per account.

Yea that 1 domain per account is very likely what will lose you a lot of potential clients...including myself :rolleyes:

Originally posted by erda
Hi..

How about if I want to take more than 3 GB, like 30 or 50 GB space and than 100 GB bandwidth ?

Erda

Then you either want to find some fully dedicated hosting, or [probably a better idea] get your own server.

If you had unlimited domains (or 10 or so), then you'd have me as a customer.

Owen

The issue with serving multiple domains on the RaQ product (as virtual sites) is you'll need server admin access to create and manage that. The admin wouldn't let a client do that unless they were a dedicated customer. And in order to make this happen on the RaQ server appliance would require a ton of manual changes and break the Sun Cobalt warranty.

It would be better to run a vanilla *nix box and use something like the ensim or cpanel products to manage the server. I would hope that they could provide that level of multiple domain management per client.

GregO

Josh,

We offer semi-dedicated plans, but they're not for the reseller type client. We have clients who need more space and bandwidth along with high-usage cgi. So semi-dedicating a server to them gives them the service they need without the cost of a dedicated server fee. It's a middle of the road option.

If you try to serve everyone with only a couple plans, then you'll lose out. I believe the goal is to try and offer a wide choice, but not too many to confuse the issue.

Check out what we have; http://www.globalinternet.net

Three shared plans.
Two semi-dedicated plans.
Seven dedicated plans.

All Sun Cobalt, all the time.

How do you offer unlimited sub-domains and how do you define that term within the "cobalt" paradigm?

GregO