Hello,

I noticed that most of the visitors of WHT do not sign up with just anyone and unbelievable offers are just not enough. Many of you want to test things out, here the opinions of others, and more.

But when there is a new host you will most likely not find many opinions of them because they don't exist yet. We believe that we must prove ourselves as a host but without customers thats not possible. This is why we are willing to give people 15 days to see exactly what they are going to get. Domain transfer is not necessary to see what your going to be getting. This way you don't have to move your site to our server completely to test out service.

As a special we will be including mod_gzip so most sites will be seeing a good portion of their bandwidth reduced. Normally this reduces download time for your site's end users as well.

Paypal will bill you after 15 days are complete for the next month. They will continue to bill you exactly $12.95 every month.

Here are the details for exactly what you get:

500 MB
40000 MB Transfer
100 FTP/User Accounts
100 Email Users
Unlimited Email Aliases
MySQL Access (Up to Five Databases)
PHP
Perl/CGI
Control Panel
Mailing List (MajorDomo)
Telnet (SSH)
Backup Utility

Because this is a special offer only to WHT members you will have to email me directly to the address nazmune@dbzn.net. I will then provide you with the form you need to sign-up.

$12.95? How the hell are you providing it so cheap? 40 gig bandwidth?

Not that difficult.... Most users don't use 100% of the resources provided. But it's great to know that there is room for expansion for the client.

-Nazmun Saikat
DBZN.net

So you're overselling?

I don't like the term, as I would actually still make a profit but in a way yes...

I love that business model you have...

Now is that sarcastic? :)

YES, very!

If he has a server at RackShack, it's possible to make a profit without any overselling on his end, and overselling isn't bad as long as you give the customer what you advertise, so please don't interrogate him unless you plan on accepting his offer. Maybe he just has a server with unused resources and he just wants to sell some of it to reduce costs instead of letting it go to waste.

Umm... This is a hosting special and not a regular price... :)

I wouldn't make this a regular price for 40 gigs of bw.

Think of this as and advertisement maybe...

Originally posted by ToastyX
If he has a server at RackShack, it's possible to make a profit without any overselling on his end, and overselling isn't bad as long as you give the customer what you advertise, so please don't interrogate him unless you plan on accepting his offer. Maybe he just has a server with unused resources and he just wants to sell some of it to reduce costs instead of letting it go to waste. I wasn't interrogating him, I am simply wondering how he could offer so much.

Originally posted by ToastyX
If he has a server at RackShack, it's possible to make a profit without any overselling on his end, and overselling isn't bad as long as you give the customer what you advertise, so please don't interrogate him unless you plan on accepting his offer. Maybe he just has a server with unused resources and he just wants to sell some of it to reduce costs instead of letting it go to waste. Even if it was a RackShack server he couldn't turn more than a $25 profit. Do the math. RackShack provides 400 GB bandwidth. Divide 400 by 40 thats 10. 10 x 12.95 = 129.95. There are RS server for $129 and $100 and $300. So if he was using the $100 (+tax) server he would only receive a $25 profit.

I actually don't mind the questions and don't feel guilty about posting since it's not bumping this thread up. In actuallity I can support 3-4 more servers with zero revenue coming in from the hosting side and still not worry about financial problems.

About profit (I'm not using a $99 server but it is from RS)... it''s much more complicated equation then that. It's not like selling a product where you give someone a $1k computer for $1.1k and make a 100 dollar profit per sale. You have to equate percentage of usage on average with webhosting.

Originally posted by web_res
I actually don't mind the questions and don't feel guilty about posting since it's not bumping this thread up. In actuallity I can support 3-4 more servers with zero revenue coming in from the hosting side and still not worry about financial problems.

About profit (I'm not using a $99 server but it is from RS)... it''s much more complicated equation then that. It's not like selling a product where you give someone a $1k computer for $1.1k and make a 100 dollar profit per sale. You have to equate percentage of usage on average with webhosting. I understand that, but I don't see overselling as a good business practice. That's just my opinion.

You haven't even proven it's overselling.

From dictionary.com:

To contract to sell more of (a stock or commodity) than can be delivered.

If a customer want's 40 gigs, I can deliver :). Especially when my regular customers pay much more at 30 gigs for $14.95. So far no one has used over 40% even if they use 100% i make a profit.

Originally posted by iamdave
Even if it was a RackShack server he couldn't turn more than a $25 profit. Do the math. RackShack provides 400 GB bandwidth. Divide 400 by 40 thats 10. 10 x 12.95 = 129.95. There are RS server for $129 and $100 and $300. So if he was using the $100 (+tax) server he would only receive a $25 profit.

I did do the math. You're assuming 100% utilization, which is the worst-case scenario and is very unlikely to happen. An average of 50% utilization, which is still way above average with that much bandwidth, allows for 20 customers. 20 * 12.95 = $259. An average of 25% utilization allows for 40 customers. 40 * 12.95 = $518. Not only that, this is not his regular pricing. Anyway, this isn't probability and statistics class or economics class... It shouldn't matter as long as he can deliver what he advertises.

I was looking at your website and you offer this,


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Monthly Price $4.95
Web Space 50 MB
Bandwidth 8000 MB

Why make your bandwith so high when you know no one can use 8GB of bandwith with 50MB of space ?




?? your plans dont make sense

um...I could definitely use up 8 GB of transfer with 50 MB of space.

Most of my sites are comprized of optimized graphics as well as compressed html pages (when they go out to the public via mod_gzip).

The main site is only 70 mb, and uses over 35 gb's per month.

Remember, it's not a bad business model when worst case scenario puts him at a profit :).