hey there, well I was just creating plans for my new hosting company, and as Ive never had one before to say the least, heh I was wondering if you guys could help me. I just have this last plan to complete, and It just couldnt hit me and I couldnt think of a low/good enough price for this plan:

1GB of space
20GB of bandwidth
Subdomains - 25

POP3 Mailboxes - unlimited
Mailing Lists - unlimited
Mail Forwarding - unlimited
Autoresponders - unlimited
E-mail spam blocker - Yes
Catch-all mail - Yes
Webmail - Yes

Perl - Yes
CGI - Yes
PHP - Yes
SSi - Yes
mySQL - Yes
-databases - 25

Telnet/SSH access - Yes
Custom Error Pages - Yes
Graphical Site Statistics - Yes
Raw access/error logs - Yes
Control Panel - Yes
Anonymous FTP accounts - Yes
Frontpage Extensions - Yes
Automatic Cron Jobs - Yes
Apache Handlers - Yes
Custom MIME types - Yes

heh got any ideas for a price on that baby? I was thinkin in the $45 range but hey like i said heh im new at this..

How much do you want to risk the resource usage?

You could sell it for $8/mo, get a landslide of orders and hope no one ever comes close to using that much resource. Or you can put a more serious number like $15-$20 that can better cover the cost of resources.

Your risk, your call.

mmm good point!....anyone else got any ideas?

also, along with the idea for pricing, could you give me your opinion of the plan? is it good? or too much of this or too much of that? or whatever...

Looking at it as how much it will cost me to offer it, I think that $44.95 would be a good price.

the plan itself contains lots of disk space. and if you really got the client using that much resources it will cost you allot. 1gb is too much space and i wonder how is going to need it.

you can have 200 mb in place of 1gb. and price of aorund $30 will cover your risk. i guess very few people will use 20 gb traffic.

so if 20% users also use that much traffic you are still on profit. ;)

I agree. 1gb? :eek: That's too much space. You are better off offering something like 200mb with 4 gigs of transfer.

I mean, most of your client will never need 1gb of space anyway. Even if they did signup for the 1gb plan, you can be sure that they will need that much space and this will decrease your revenue potential.

oh i see heh thanx for the input...anyone else?

Allocate bandwidth under the assumption that 90% of the people will never use it. Allocate drive space under the assumption that people will use more, because they always do. Bandwidth can be paid for fairly easily. Hard drives can't be expanded as easily. :)

Reduce your webspace to about 100mb to 200mb. Then for those users who need more, you can simple offer them with USD$5.00 per month for additional block of 50mb for example and of course the price and block of web space are totally up to you.

Choon

Originally posted by mahinder
you can have 200 mb in place of 1gb. and price of aorund $30 will cover your risk. i guess very few people will use 20 gb traffic.


In addition... sites that truly use this much traffic in a month more than likely have their own web servers; either in-house, leased or co-located.

yea now i decided to have 5 plans.. a 50mb, a 100mb, a 200mb, a 300mb, and a 500mb one...is that good?

Here is what i came up with. you place your prices and set it to fit the resourses you have.

Plan 1
50MB disk space
3 Gb Bandwidth
25 pop3 accounts
1 MySQL DB

Plan 2
150MB
5GB
50 pop3
2 DB

Plan 3
250 MB
8Gb
75 pop3
5DB

Plan 4
350 MB
10Gb
100 pop3
8 DB

Plan 5
500Mb
15Gb
150 pop3
10 DB