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07-13-2014, 09:16 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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How many hosting packages to offer?
Hi,
I'm in the process of doing some competitor research for shared (non-reseller) hosting for my business plan, looking at package specs and how many packages they offer, I'm seeing 2 packages e.g. a Basic & Professional, I'm seeing 3 packages and some are offering 5... All with varying degrees of features/tools.
What do you think is the magic number of plans to offer? I'm currently thinking 3 with a basic, mid and an advanced plan, which could have a more robust feature set/more disk/bw allowances.
I've toyed with just offering a single package with a set price and features, I've also toyed with 2 plans depending on the features required, then I think 3 offers a nice upgrade path...
What plan setups have worked best for you?/What do you think works best?
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07-13-2014, 03:02 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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In my past experience I would say a minimum of 3 plans. A basic, medium advance plan. Then you can go with a fourth as well. 5 and more plans is to many choices. Most hosts offer 4 plans.
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07-13-2014, 03:34 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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I think 3 to 4 is the norm, more than 4 and it just gets confusing for the customers unless you are talking about a VPS or Dedicated Server which may require more plans.
Personally I have always stuck to three, though I can create custom built plans where needed.
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07-13-2014, 04:06 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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07-13-2014, 04:15 PM #5
It all depends on your offering, who your targeted client base is and what YOU feel comfortable with.
If you feel that offering 1 plan is sufficient, then offer 1 plan.
Don't offer 3 plans because the majority does.
Simply be YOU.
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07-13-2014, 04:44 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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3-4 plans. We offer 5 but only 4 are on our website the 5th is via WHMCS cart ordering only.
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07-13-2014, 05:18 PM #7Disabled
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If i were to start again knowing everything that i do now. I would most defiantly go with one plan.
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07-13-2014, 05:42 PM #8Newbie
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I'd say maximum 3 of each type (KVM, OpenVZ, Shared, etc) because after that it's going to start getting confusing for your clients.
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07-13-2014, 08:57 PM #9Web Hosting Guru
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I don't think going with just one plan is the best way to go. You want to show you give different options and you should also accept that maybe you will get customers who might want custom plans. I think you need to be open to at least giving 3 or 4 different packages and then if you have customers asking for something in specific, work with them as well.
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07-14-2014, 06:00 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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Having to many options can become confusing for some potential customers. We have 4 shared hosting plans that are visible on our web site but we do have other shared hosting plans available for different target customers groups - for instance WHT customers have a selection of shared packages available that are not available to landing on the site from other locations.
In the past we experimented with different types of shared package like budget and premium as well as standard but we noticed a dip in sales when these options were offered.
My advice is to keep it simple.
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07-14-2014, 11:43 AM #11Web Hosting Master
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07-14-2014, 01:36 PM #12Hello World
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There is no magic number of what to offer but make sure your lowest plans are profitable since a majority of budget minded clients will simply sit on the lowest plan and try to run there the next Youtube type site. We don't just limit on diskspace and bandwidth but also memory and CPU usage and IO usage too.
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07-15-2014, 08:37 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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Three has been the magic number for us. With three plans most customers are going to gravitate towards your top or middle plan. There's some sales psychology at work here, in that the process works like this:
1) Customer arrives looking for the cheapest plan.
2) Customer thinks "great, I'll take it! Cheap is good!"
3) Customer sees your most expensive plan, thinks "pfft, that's ridiculous"
4) Customer examines your most expensive plan to see what the fuss is about
5) Customer notices some of those features are missing / downgraded on the cheaper plans
6) Customer notices your mid-tier plan offers many of the same features as your most expensive plan for less money
7) Customer perceives the middle plan as the "best value", buys it
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07-15-2014, 10:11 AM #14Newbie
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Agree with this.
Not only as a provider but as a customer as well. I look at the middle plan in most things I am looking to buy, this can even relate to material purchases (phones, cameras, etc).
However, I usually see that if I spend just a few dollars more I can have something nicer - I feel the same goes for service providers or this case, web hosting.
I have three plans.
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07-15-2014, 02:53 PM #15Junior Guru
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I usually use 3 or 4 packages for shared and reseller plans. VPS's, on the other hand, generally have more packages offered because they can be used for a wide range of things and they're more expensive and people generally want to pay only for what they need. Extra resources on VPS's and servers can get really expensive so offering a wide range of plans gives the client more flexibility.
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07-15-2014, 04:16 PM #16Web Hosting Jedi
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As others have said, if you offer 4 plans for shared and reseller hosting but allow customers to increase size through Add-on's then you can't really go wrong
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07-15-2014, 06:02 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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3. Always go with 3, no matter the situation
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07-19-2014, 05:21 AM #19Temporarily Suspended
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Plan design
Design a plan is depend upon various things like your business nature.In my past experience I would say a minimum of 3 plans. A basic, medium advance plan.You can offer some extra feature in the plan in ascending order like diskspace and bandwidth etc .
You can create different plan for the offers.
All plan should have monthly, quarterly, half yearly,yearly,2 year and 3 year subscription.
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07-19-2014, 10:16 AM #20Newbie
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We have always used 4 plans for shared hosting and 5 for virtual servers.
For dedicated servers it depends what we have in-stock and can be as many as 8 at a time.
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07-19-2014, 03:06 PM #21Web Hosting Guru
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We have only 3 shared hosting packages at the moment. We are planning to add 1 or 2 more in the future.
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07-27-2014, 02:58 AM #22Disabled
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Question:
How many hosting packages to offer?
Answer:
As many as possible, though entirely up to you and taking into consideration the sustainablity of the proposed packages you want to offer.
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07-29-2014, 12:47 PM #23Junior Guru Wannabe
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three plans work great, go for it
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07-31-2014, 08:35 AM #24PING PONG
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We are not a webhost, but let me put what I would do in such a case.
First:
Take a note of how your shared plans will differ. Some hosts differentiate only for disk space, bandwidth while some provides additional features like SSL, dedicated IP.
Second:
Then create plans with as many you like and see which are the best sellers.
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07-31-2014, 01:28 PM #25Web Hosting Guru
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I offer specials via the whmcs cart only, but I offer 12.
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