Hi.

Can you tell me what is the average amount of bandwidth that your regular customers use?

:confused: :D :cartman:

Per domain? Between 50 to 450MB per month. Of course it always depends what customers you target :)

I concur. 99% doesn't go over the 1GB. And 0% goes over their limit.

I target the sites that outgrew geocities and ads. Mostly static pages

hey.

thanks you guys. I was worried that customers would use like something 1 - 2 GB per month.

I'm targetting customers with static pages only. Mainly small businesses that use their site like business cards/ads.

cool.

Thanks so much!:) :cartman: :blush: :stickout

Hey how do you guys target only the smaller companies that want only static pages? I mean where and how do you advertise to them? I am looking to start a small hosting company that would target the same areas that you guys specified.

Thanks!

Business card websites normally use less than 200M/month .

You are lucky if most of your customers are of this kind.

Mac

I also have some pretty static sites using up 10 gig a month. have to admit they have a lot of pics on their sites(not adult)

I don't think you can predict how much your average sites are gone use. If some of the sites hit the jackpot and traffic rises, they'll only like it and work harder on the site, getting more visitors etc.

Just don't be generous with letting then exceed their bandwidth, if you do it once next month they expect it again.

Originally posted by DjPaj
Hey how do you guys target only the smaller companies that want only static pages? I mean where and how do you advertise to themThanks!

Well you advertise in the same places as everybody else, but you adjust your hosting plans to your target group.

- Price should be reasonable so that the decision between free geocities and payed hosting isn't that difficult. (persuade them!)

- don't offer mysql
- don't offer subdomains
- don't offer reseller plans
- quote a high price for bandwidth overage (not rediculous high, because that will hurt your companies name, but high enough to discourage certain would-be customers.

..kinda like that.

Do you guys, anyone who targets static pages, find that you make a good business from this? I would think that you would seeing as how there are a lot of start-up companies and the like who want to advertise, but do not yet have the ability to maintain a full dynamic site. Also do you offer web design to your target audience?

MY sites all take up a storage of 1-10 mb [16 mb is the max] and the max bandwidth is 40 MB! [Ofcourse I dont have that many sites right now..]

My average storage is 5 mb and average transfer is 15 mb [my average price is 4$/mo]

And DjPaj, I target static HTML sites by talking to business people who are just thinking about putting up a site [on the phone, snail mail etc] - but the scene in India is totally different.

If you target small businesses and stay away from freewebspace addicts you can do a good business inspite of offering a low price

I sell email as a primary USP and hosting as an add-on

The best marketing is to offer to give free lectures on Internet , ecommerce etc in your local Lions, Rotaract clubs etc

Great PR, nice sign-ups.. I am hoping to start a session in these holidays

Cheers
Balaji

Currently most of our customers are using between 2 and 2000 MB of bandwidth per month, with almost none going over the limit. I'd say it averages out at about 200.

i hATE when u get those clients that want unlimited bandwidth or 20 gigs for one site but they dont want to pay for the extra bandwidth lol