Drivethruhosting is proud to announce a special offer for the WHT community.

WE WILL NOT BE BEATEN ON ANY PRICE

Check out our virtual hosting packages and prices (http://www.drivethruhosting.com/plans/) and if you find a cheaper package Anywhere at Any hosting company not only will we match the price, but we will beat it. If you find a package of different specifications than our own, we will make an equivalent package for you.

All packages sold come with an extended unconditional 30-day money back guarantee, our 99.9% uptime guarantee, 24/7 server monitoringa and 24/7 live, trouble ticket and email support. We use PLESK 2.5, Modernbill 3.08 and accept Visa, Mastercard, Eurocard, Visa Debit, Switch, Solo, Delta, JCB, Paypal in 3 major currencies.

All of our servers are Dual CPU 933+MHz with 1024+ Mb RAM, customized RedHat 7.2 with symmetric multi-processing and journalling ext3 filesystem, housed in DV2's 24/7 Atlanta datacenter. Our network provides fully burstable multihomed bandwidth with multiple redundant connections and cisco routers and switches. We never overload our servers - current load average is 0.02

Contact me by PM, email, live chat, or via this forum



Conditions:
- This offer excludes promotional and sale items
- We will not match FREE hosting giveaways, or, pay once and free hosting for life
- All offers must be made by genuine hosting companies that are established businesses, with business registration, and operate their own servers that can be independently verified
- The competitor must have been in business for at least 6 months, by a propriator at least 18 years age, and have a viable business model
- The competitor must offer at least equivalent service with respect to quality of service, CPU usage, RAM, hardware specifications and operational uptime (sorry ****turbo)
- Drivethruhosting reserves final decision to detemine what constitutes a genuine competitor's offer, but we cannot say no

Hehe, do you also give half price?
http://www.halfpricehosting.com/
LOL

Astra4, contact me privately if you have an offer that you would like us to beat :D

sure, no problems,

we'll beat halfpricehosting's offer

Sign up one account, and receive a 50% off additional accounts. Everybody's a reseller! Not to mention that you may be paying as little as $50 a year for accounts you resell.

you can have 75% off any additional accounts you buy

:)
Yeah, I agree everyone should be allowed to be a reseller,
I just typed a little reply on this topic in another thread (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=50838)

Your site looks nice, I didn't look at it the first time...
The plans appear normally priced,
Not exactly what I expected when I saw your "we're cheaper than anyone" advertising message.
I don't think that's a really good aproach,
Ethically speaking ;)
But if it works...

Good luck!

thanks for your kind words astra4,

In reference to the post you refer to (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=50838)

So people that have nothing to do with reselling, buy instead of a normal plan, a reseller's plan...as it has more features...and then comes the bad...they start to resell and suddenly we discover a world of thousands of resellers that offer bad services and create the : "every host is bad", "you can't trust a host" ideas to the people. I don't know..it's good to have low prices...but this way we make accessable to everyone the key to the hosting world, with terrible effects! I think that prices should stay at a level that a normal user cannot buy a reseller's plan...

The market is becoming increasingly crowded, rackshack claims to be selling almost 900 dedicted servers a month, and most reseller accounts these days offer unlimited domains. We're guilty of also selling rackshack priced dedicated servers too :bawling:

We have offered in the past to host people on this forum who have been complaining about the quality of their existing ISP - while we may be using "cheap" advertising tricks, we strive to deliver the best possible service to our clients. You will not find a single drivethruhosting orphan who has left us on bad terms. I was once a orphan of the terribly bad ISP ***turbo.

We have tried to differentiate ourselves from the pack, but if you have any ideas on how we can more respectably market ourselves to an already crowded and cut-throat market, I'm all ears ;)

Originally posted by drivethru
We have tried to differentiate ourselves from the pack, but if you have any ideas on how we can more respectably market ourselves to an already crowded and cut-throat market, I'm all ears ;)
Well, unfortunately, I don´t have such ideas. As I mentiond in that other thread, I´m not in the hosting business. I only know this industry from browsing WHT since a couple of years, out of curiosity...

The only host I ever had was 34sp.com (http://www.34sp.com) and I think they have an interesting aproach, their growth is mainly "community driven" due to the low prices and the forums. Well, they have their own servers and from the forum one can see that they know to admin them, that gives confidence,... There hasn´t been any news from 34sp for quite a while now, I didn´t renew my account because they changed the SSH policy, now only allowed where needed, whereas I only used it for PICO and to read my mail,... so they took it away from me... Of course that´s good for the system security, but still I liked to have the shell, hehe.

Hosting has become a very tough business, I have the impression that for long term commercial success with mere hosting quite a lot of capital is needed + skills + initiative to make something new (RackShack, MCHost, WebWorks, 34sp in the future?). To have success with just selling virtual hosting, I think you need a platform (Yahoo) or other business (Netsol.com, Mail.com,...) that brings you in touch with a stream of potential customers. Less capital intensive is to concentrate on IT services (software development, system administration, etc.) and do the hosting as part of that. I think that´s the direction I´d try to take if I was trying to make a living from this.