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01-08-2006, 01:27 PM #1New Member
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'pay as you go' reseller account
Hi,
I'm looking for a reseller account but a pay as you go type account.
Lets say you offer me 30GB Space and 300GB Bandwidth. I want to pay more as I use the space and bandwidth not a constant fee.
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01-08-2006, 01:39 PM #2Workaholic
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Why not just get a hosting account that has less than 30 GB of space and less than 300 GB of bandwidth and then increase to a higher plan as you need more space/bandwidth?
There are plenty of web hosts that will allow you to start off with a "small" reseller plan and then upgrade you to a new reseller plan completely free of charge.
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01-08-2006, 02:27 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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01-08-2006, 07:44 PM #4Froggy Support
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That is a very new concept, which I do not think exists. This is why, as the others have pointed out, there are always options to upgrade, with most hosts.
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01-08-2006, 08:49 PM #5PHP for breakfast
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Some people seem to be under the understanding that it's 'common' for hosts to charge an upgrade fee, which I think is the root cause of wanting to do something like this.
As far as I have seen, there's not many hosts who charge you to upgrade. It seems like a silly thing to do anyway, since you are already planning on paying them more... charging the difference in plan prices for the remainder of the billing period is common, but not a specific 'upgrade fee'.Jacob - WebOnce Technologies - 30 Day 100% Satisfaction Guarantee - Over 5 Years Going Strong!
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01-08-2006, 09:09 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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This kind of service you are looking for will never happen because:
1- Everytime you need an upgrade you have to cancel your recurring payment and resignup.
2- This kind of requests will lock the sales of the service which is offerring what you want.
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01-08-2006, 10:23 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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01-09-2006, 03:04 AM #9Invented the Internet
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01-09-2006, 11:13 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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01-09-2006, 11:58 AM #11Web Hosting Evangelist
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I've seen many companies charging for downgrades (webhosting, adsl, etc), but it's becoming rare to see charges for upgrades...
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01-09-2006, 12:06 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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There are not any "affordable and easy" way of upgrades except switching to another plan for both seller and buyer.
We have tried that between 2003 to 2005. Nearly all customers made several upgrades and additional recurring payments for $1-2 for a 1-2GB Disk and Bandwidth. It has only caused incredible lack on accounting and even customers confused after they see they have as much as 10 different recurrings for the same reseller plans.. And as you can guess due to min 30-40 cents charge fees we couldnt make any profit from them and effort too much to keep the accounting records properly. We even built our own client admin to allow small instant upgrades. I assure you, we did the best could be to offer "upgrade/pay as you sell/growth" which is what thread owner is asking but it did not worked not just for us also for clients.
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01-09-2006, 04:07 PM #13Web Hosting Evangelist
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When I wrote that it's becoming rare to charge for upgrades, I didn't meant that they shouldn't be charged. I know that it will give trouble...
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01-10-2006, 09:30 PM #15Retired Moderator
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01-11-2006, 02:04 AM #16Junior Guru Wannabe
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isnt' this like paying monthly for your reseller account?
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01-11-2006, 06:09 AM #17Aspiring Evangelist
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Originally Posted by djwk
In the end I decided that it was no safer, in terms of being able to predict and manage resource usage, than massive over-selling and I prefer not to over-sell. And the extra admin (or coding to automate the admin) involved would not be worth the income IMO.
In fact: If anyone is giving it a go and wants the domains paygwebhosting.co.uk and paygwebhosting.com for nothing (I think they are due to expire soon anyway), I registered them and never used them...
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01-11-2006, 03:52 PM #18Newbie
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I seem to remember in my wanderings around when I was researching Hsphere reseller accounts that there was a reseller plan that was basically pay as you go. I will have to do some research but I have seen this out there once, but it has been a while since I saw it. I remember the website but forgot the name. I will look around in the next day or two and see if I can find it again.
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01-11-2006, 05:22 PM #19Location = SoapBox
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This kind of service you are looking for will never happen because:
1- Everytime you need an upgrade you have to cancel your recurring payment and resignup.
2- This kind of requests will lock the sales of the service which is offerring what you want.You simply edit the recurring amount in your billing section, make some adjustments on the server, and it's all done. Takes about 2 minutes.So you are not accepting PayPal Paments
Automation is wonderful - client logs into their account - selects change plan - upgrades or downgrades to any plan within the specified plan group - hsphere automatically calculates the pro-rated charge/credit based on their source/desitnation plan and billing period - issues the invoice/credit - changes plan for customer and changes allocated resources for customer to match new plan.
Total time - about 10 seconds - total effort or intervention by provider - zerowww.cartika.com
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01-11-2006, 05:40 PM #20Web Hosting Rockstar
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01-11-2006, 06:10 PM #21Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by CartikaHosting
Getting back on topic though... I think its pretty safe to say that the concept of "Pay as You Go" for shared hosting will not hit the mainstream any time soon, if at all.█ SeeksAdmin .:. Linux & Windows Server Management
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01-11-2006, 09:02 PM #22Retired Moderator
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01-11-2006, 09:16 PM #23Location = SoapBox
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Maybe Hsphere will some day create a true "pay as you go" mode.
But, Im not too keen on the idea and doesnt really make sense to me in the long run - its a nice idea for starting customers out - but, its not our target audience, so, we dropped it.
Our pricing level starts at a certain point and thats the client base we are after. However, having said all this, nothing would stop an hsphere provider from launching a true pay as you go reseller plan.www.cartika.com
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01-11-2006, 09:27 PM #24Location = SoapBox
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Basically a really good billing system as Aussie Bob indicated earlier will do the job for you. I personally like MBill.www.cartika.com
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01-11-2006, 09:44 PM #25Web Hosting Rockstar
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