So, I've mad previous topics thus far about naming, etc. It was recommended to me to start off with a VPS. I've been fooling around with Cent OS on the VPS. My question is, how do people expand out of a VPS? I've got 800gb bandwidth a month, 70gb space, and 1024 ram. I see the hard drive space being the choke point for holding more customers.

If I'm wrong in this sense, please hit me hard with some answers :stickout:

Just keep filling up the VPS - that's the only logical course to take. How much of the 70GB have you used so far?

Once you fill up that VPS, is when you go to the dedicated server.

Aye, I plan on filling up the VPS. I guess I was wondering more along the lines of how could anyone who wanted to stay small make a profit. Seeing as the + licenses (Even if you purchase then at the discounted yearly price) per month is more than the amount of profit you are able to bring it.

As for how much I've used thus far, hardly any. I'm still setting up things, I'm at ~900mb thus far.

Something is wrong then. What do you mean, you have to pay some sort of licensing fees for each client you put on there?

What licensing are you paying for? Your monthly fee for your VPS plan should be your only expenses....

No, I mean paying for a cPanel license, and a WHMCS license.

OH right. Well just upgrade to a bigger VPS so you pay the single cPanel license instead of paying for two. Then the WHMCS license you only need once, so once you clear enough to fund those two, your profits will be much more than they are now.

Yeah, that's my goal as of now :)

Aye, I plan on filling up the VPS. I guess I was wondering more along the lines of how could anyone who wanted to stay small make a profit. Seeing as the + licenses (Even if you purchase then at the discounted yearly price) per month is more than the amount of profit you are able to bring it.

That depends on how much you're charging. If you want to stay small and earn profit, charge more/person.

You have to expect to lose money the first year or more. It costs money to make money. You need to calculate your expenses + your desired profit and base your mid-level plan to bring in this money based on the number of those plans you can fit on the server (doesn't matter if it's a vps or a dedicated). You'd be better off doing your planning of the future dedi that you don't have yet, to avoid raising prices once you upgrade. You will than scale your small and large plans off of this. Remember to base your number of mid-level accounts at a reasonable number to make the profit. Don't use an number like 1500 clients, use a number closer to 200 clients. That way if you do sell to more clients, you'll have money to expand.

Yeah, every day I'm planing, planning, and more planning. From lurking WHT I made sure I have enough money when I upgrade to a dedicated to be able to keep it up for close to two years without profit.