im thinking of increasing resources for all users in hosting service. what is the decent amount of resources industrywide these days ?

500 terabytes of space and 37 petabytes of transfer.
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500 terabytes of space and 37 petabytes of transfer.
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lol! And all for the high price of $11.99 per 3 years :D

I think this all depends on your niche, your competitors in that niche, etc.

lol! And all for the high price of $11.99 per 3 years :D

I think this all depends on your niche, your competitors in that niche, etc.

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Doable ;) just raise you base price to 2000$ monthly.

im thinking of increasing resources for all users in hosting service. what is the decent amount of resources industrywide these days ?

These days, it all over the place. There really isn't a industry standard so to speak. You will find some hosts that offer terabytes of data for pennies while others who charge a premium for a lot less space and features.

ok ok. a lot of funny jokes there, people.

now, please, really, give me some numbers.

I think the best way your going to find out what might work best is for you to just look at some other hosts that you think are suitable.

At the end of the day you should offer what works for your company and what fits with your business plan.

now, of course i looked around. but i found an appalling range of numbers. starting with 600 gb space some tb bw at hostgator for $3.9 or something. i cant make any judgments.

now, of course i looked around. but i found an appalling range of numbers. starting with 600 gb space some tb bw at hostgator for $3.9 or something. i cant make any judgments.

Your plans look fine to me...

now, of course i looked around. but i found an appalling range of numbers. starting with 600 gb space some tb bw at hostgator for $3.9 or something. i cant make any judgments.
If you want to oversell, seriously consider what David suggested. It'll attract server abusers and newbies instantly :)

If not, what I'd suggest is to look around hosts which seem good quality (and don't overseller) and see whether you can offer packages similar to theirs considering the spec. of your server and all.

For example, if your server has 120 gigs diskspace and 1,500 gigs data transfer (for $100 per month), if you find a hosting solution you think looks good for, say: 1.2 gigs diskspace, 15 gigs bandwidth, $7.50 per month, look at how many customers you could fit on one server (in this case, 100 customers) and find the revenue you'd be making ($7.50 x 100 = $750).

If your revenue exceeds your expenses (i.e. server cost, any staff, software licenses etc) by a suitable profit margin, look to adopt a similar hosting solution to what you seen.

Basically, do some number crunching and work out how much profit per server you could get. If you're happy with that figure, adopt said hosting package :)

tristan ive been making such calculations way back since 2002 and up to this date.

but, almost every calculation seems to become irrelevant. what im thinking is basically pinpointing the decent amount of resources to offer, and then upgrading accordingly.

It seems to be that you have no business plan, which should tell YOU what you can and can not charge.

Nope. He has "couple" of plans but he is unable to implement them cause of his confusions.

We had the same confusion thus we decided to keep the same plans!

You need a spreadsheet/formulae to calculate what you can/cannot afford. Do some tweaking etc and see what figures it spits out. How much do you want to make per server etc. You need to know your costs and goals, then you can work out pricing/plan options.

You need to offer something besides just resources these days.

You need to offer something besides just resources these days.
I'd mainly agree.

Although there are still loads of customers who seriously start a "hosting requests" thread with "I'm looking for at least 200 gigs disk space, and around 1-2 TB bandwidth. Obviously for a cheap price - budget of $5"

In other words, there are still plenty of customers who don't understand loads about hosting, and will base their decisions based on who offers the most.