If you was starting a web hosting business. Your going to be buying a dedicated server to start. With just one package. How much would you sell the following packages for? Monthly: 2GB Webspace, 10GB Bandwidth, Monthly Cost? or 10GB Webspace, 50GB Bandwidth, Monthly Cost? Based on using one of the best dedicated servers from a good business. This is proper prices. None of that unlimited or rubbish as such. I just want to see what your guys suggestions are for this. Thanks, BlueEew.
That would be impossible to compete with. Unless you indeed was selling which you don't have like a lot of new businesses.
$4.99 to $9.99 is best price if you want loyal customers and if you want to run web hosting business successfully and for long time. Any price below this will be overselling and then you must have a good number of support staff to handle problems of your clients
There is tons of competition out there. You can up the price if you offer good customer service. Not just the bandwidth and webspace, but sell the service that they can contact youi if they need help or their site is down, etc.
Most DP members sell theres at this price with simular packages. So I agree with you on that level. I am assuming that you are refering to the second plan for this price. Also overselling and gaining to many customers is something I am not going to be falling in to. Customer service will be a priority. For which plan? Yes. I want a limit amount of customers. This is so I can give 24/7 service to them.
2GB Space 10GB Transfer $5 per month 10GB Space 50GB Transfer $12.95 per month Find a way to make yourself different. Honestly, at $1 per month, the paypal fees would eat about $0.40 of that, so the host is only making about $0.60 per month off of you. You need to be profitable, otherwise why would you stay in business to make nothing? Customers don't mind paying more for reliability, and they know that if you are profitable, you'll want to stay in business and they will know you'll be around for the long term. Don't sell yourself short. You've got to eat too and the real customers around here will thank you for it. Edit: Too many times companies sell you the world for nothing. Customers are learning about this, and they are starting to watch out for it. They are starting to realize that if they pay $1 per month for hosting, you can't expect much from the host. If they pay a reasonable amount of money, they expect a reasonable amount of support.
This is actually going towards for the priceses I had in mind. However my only concern was being able to sell packages at this price. There are a lot of crappy unlimited deals going around. People just don't seem to realize that "You get what you pay for" and "nothings unlimited".
You can do it, but it take a little more time to get rolling. You're right though, people don't realize it until they get stuck by it. People learn though, and it goes around. The pricing structure you had is the same I adopted. It was slow to gain those customers, but they were some of the best customers you could ever ask for. Now that I'm not a host any more, I'm hoping to help educate the public about the pitfalls of hosting. Those "unlimited" hosts sure won't mention it to you.
I agree with hostingspeak prices, it seems silly to sell it out for 1 dollar, what's the point? Even if your prices are kind of high, if you provide quality service people that are leaving bad services that were cheap will ask where they should go, and hopefully they will go with you. I think that's your best bet, but this isn't my really my area of expertise so...
For 2gb space 10gb bandwidth. Price will be - $5.00usd. For 10gb space 10gb bandwidth Price will be - $12.00usd.
With this config you would not get a good price. Brand name companies already selling it for lot cheaper. Your best approach would be finding a server that is cheap for you so you can sell it cheap.
Thanks you have been most helpful. It is important for me to provide a good service rather then a poor cheap solution. How would I get people interested any ideas? Thanks for that. I have noticed a lot of people recently looking for a pricy service over a cheap and nasty one. Maybe I do stand a chance. I do agree myself. However it's saturated due to there being to much junk and rubbish hosting out these days. Thanks for a good quote. Cheap server? As long as it was a company that was highly established I guess it would be worth looking into. However I am sure good dedicated servers don't come cheaply. I don't want crappy ones with 99.99% downtime. Not saying all cheap ones are rubbish. Just hard to come across a good one. Any suggestions perhaps?