I am interested in starting a web hosting business and I am interesting in the best choices for online payment? I think of selling a web space for 1$ so I would not like to pay 2$ fees per transaction, and payment should come to me in Croatia?

If you are thinking of selling space for $1, I would make it a yearly transaction instead of a monthly one. So have them pay a one-time $12 a year, then you can cover your transaction fee.

Otherwise, look into money orders, checks, or well-concealed cash though even more problems could arise from those methods.

OK, but what would be the best method?

Are you going to be providing technical support?

This is off-topic, but you honestly shouldnt provide hosting for $1/month!!!
The fees from almost any payment processor wouldnt make it worth it, and you couldnt provide support at those prices.
You also wouldnt be able to buy a lot of scripts needed for your business if your intending to grow.

$1 is far too low and you will end up still losing out on money if you are wanting to grow as a host.
Set your prices higher and even do bigger plans if needed...
You will be happy you did if you are intending to go into the hosting business

Originally posted by John D
This is off-topic, but you honestly shouldnt provide hosting for $1/month!!!
The fees from almost any payment processor wouldnt make it worth it, and you couldnt provide support at those prices.
You also wouldnt be able to buy a lot of scripts needed for your business if your intending to grow.

$1 is far too low and you will end up still losing out on money if you are wanting to grow as a host.
Set your prices higher and even do bigger plans if needed...
You will be happy you did if you are intending to go into the hosting business


Same point I was getting at.

We already have enough overnight hosting companies that offer the world for $1 to deal with. Do you honestly want to deal with 50 customers (half of which signed up to spam off your server and you'll have to cancel them), just to make $10/month?

T7702


EDIT: After reviewing some of your other posts, I dont think hosting is for you. Atleast not yet anyways. You have much to learn yet before being able to provide even basic technical support to your customers.

Of course I agree with you, so I am thinking to start of with that 1$ price and offer for it what other offers for 10$ or 20$ so I could learn without make any customer unpleased.
Any advice more would be very helpful
Thanks

They stil wont be happy if their site goes down, they wouldnt be happy if it was a free account and they had any problems ;)

Do a bit of research before asking people to pay you to host them while you are still learning..
Even just host friends and dont charge them anything

My suggestion would be, pickup a reseller account. $20/month should do it just about anywhere. You can use that account to experiment, test, etc.. Do that for a couple months with a few testing domains or some friends. Sure you wont make any money during thei period, but for $40 you'll have the opprotunity to learn lots of things over a couple months. Then, if you like your provider, stick with them and start adding live accounts.

No matter what your reasoning, I would recommend not selling hosting for $1. You'll just end up gaining a reputation you dont want following you around.

Hope that helps,

T7702

What do you all think would be best price for 5mb of disk space for same simple sites + e mail accounts?

$1.99 /mo with 5 email accounts and 1 database :)