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[Host-Shark]

Hello, Would these packages be suitable?

Entry
10GB Disk
100 GB Bandwidth
£1.99

Professional
30GB Disk
500 GB Bandwidth
£2.49

Business
80GB Disk
750 GB Bandwidth
£3.99

Enterprise
100 GB Disk
1TB Bandwidth
£5.99

Extra £1.50 for an IP.

Reseller

Entry
40GB Disk
250GB Bandwidth
£5.99

Pro
60GB Disk
500GB Bandwidth
£9.99

Business
100GB Disk
800GB Bandwidth
£13.99

Pro
150GB Disk
1TB Bandwidth
£19.99

Dedicated Servers

Economy
AMD Opteron CPU with 2 x 1.8 GHz
2 x 200 GB SATA II Hard Drives
4 GB DDR2 RAM
100 Mbit flat
£24.99

Professional
Intel Core i5-750 CPU with 4 x 2.66 GHz
2 x 1,000 GB SATA II Hard Drives
8 GB of DDR3 RAM
100 Mbit flat
£39.99

Professional X2
Intel Core i7 2600 CPU with 4 x 3.4 GHz
2 x 1,500 GB SATA II Hard Drives
32 GB of DDR3 RAM
100 Mbit flat
£59.99

Extreme
HP ProLiant DL120 G7
Intel Xeon E3-1230 CPU with 4 x 3.2 GHz
2 x 1,000 GB Hard Drives
16GB of DDR3 ECC
1 x 1,000 Mbit
£74.99

Blocks of ten IP's are £12.00

Can I get some feedback on these?

Dylan

[Jay H]

Polling random folks on what is or is not feasible in terms of product pricing isn't the best idea. You need to look at all of your costs and base pricing on the numbers you arrive at, keeping in mind profit.

[Host-Shark]

I have calculated all of that. I was asking if they would think there reasonable.


Dylan

[LuxuryServers]

It all depends on hardware cost. To see if these are good accounts you need to see if you can make ends meet at the end of the month. There is a lot of math you got to do forexample to see how many accounts you got to sell to make profit/ how many accounts of what plans will be per server?

Also with the prices per plan is that enough for you to provide good support and server maintain.

[steven99]

I believe the OP is asking in terms of reasonable for customers to actually buy. And to answer that I'll ask: is your market low end mostly? If so, those numbers will work for those customers, but some knowledgeable customers may not go with you as they are to low for those.

Also, the above posts are still relevant. Are you able to provide the storage for that amount of monthly rates also without stuffing the server?

[pmabraham]

Good day:

FYI, it is not just hardware or otherwise direct costs.

When you are running a business you want to be sustainable,you need to cover all costs (not just hardware).

A business plan should go over what's needed to break even.

Since anyone can compete on price, and competing on price is pit fighting (someone will always be lower), is that what you want to do?

If yes, then the prices listed in the first post are far too high.

If you are competing on value, then those prices are far too low.

In either case, if you've not looked at the total cost to do business, then it's mute.

Thank you.