Im doing some research before i start a hosting company. Would you pay 0.49cents/month for 2.5GB bandwidth & 240mb space? (99.999% up-time guarantee) with... cpanel unlimted subdomains unilmited databases unlimted emails CGI PHP 5 with Zend Optimizer MySQL 4+ Perl Ruby On Rails Python SSH SSI Cron FrontPage Curl GD Image Magick Streaming Audio/Video Free PHP/Perl Module Installation + dedicated ip for an extra one time fee off $2.99 My main market would be on here so thats why im asking. cheers!
When you sell hosting you either sell it to the newbies or to the pros, for newbies .99 price doesnt make sense as they don't know much about what they need and would be willing to pay more, for pros 2.5 gb bw makes no sense considering the alternatives, so in terms of marketing you should be very careful picking your target customers, your plan covers neither.
Nope I wouldn't. To litle bandwith and the price sounds untrustworthy to me. (that doesn't mean I say u cannot be trusted) It just often happens that people who provide that kinda hosting often won't life long (their buisness I mean then)
Now tell me how you would make a profit and pay the server bill, after paypal fees... paypal takes out .25 cents plus 5% of every transaction so you are looking at making .20 from your 0.49cents/month sale.. how you you in turn have money for the server bill, your support time, your techs,, But no i would not pay that as even free hosting gives you more then that for bw .. Good luck
Do a comparison with what HostMonster.com has to offer and that would be your answer. HostMonster was voted tops over HostGator.com. in a survey conducted by Dr. Andy. I use both and prefer HostMonster. No, I would not switch from HostMonster to what you are offering at this time.