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| Posted by Goalie35, 10-09-2003, 01:21 PM |
| I've set some reselling costs and my plan is to basically charge $14.95 for 100 mb of storage & 2 gb of data transfer.
I've seen a lot of other costs around however that are charging $2-3/month however.
Is $15/month too high or should I perhaps have a cheaper account with less storage and data transfer?
My primary business is still going to be web development so most clients will be coming for that service, not the cheap hosting but what do you guys recomend I do?
Thanks.
-Goalie35
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| Posted by Ronald_Craft, 10-09-2003, 01:24 PM |
| You can charge anything you want for anything that you wish. It's completely up to you. The $2-$3 a month hosts are probally only making pennies per transaction because of all the fee's and such. I have seen costs much higher for what you are giving though.
In the web hosting business the costs are completely up to the provider. If you give great tech support and services that really set you aside from the rest then people will gladly fork over the money for your services. Uptime and stability is everything to people, especially businesses.
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| Posted by centrahost, 10-09-2003, 02:36 PM |
| Is that for a reseller account?
100MB reseller account?
I think you need to increase the space to at least 500
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| Posted by jjmac78, 10-09-2003, 04:47 PM |
| IMHO charge as much as people will pay
My clients are all clients that I've either done web pages for or network work for... They all repsect me and rely on me to keep their email operating -- they dont want to deal with anyone but me... In some cases I charge $50/month for much less than that -- and they are happy to pay it for the service.
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| Posted by Dan L, 10-09-2003, 05:29 PM |
| If you can manage to find a niche that doesn't have people who know of WHT's 'super low pricing schemes' that's fine. I think. Atleast that's what I'm doing. (Though it isn't working. )
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| Posted by speedy007h, 10-09-2003, 05:52 PM |
| Just wanted to say I agree with some of these posts. You do want to charge enough to make it worth your while. I doubt $3/month for that plan would really get you anything. You can charge your client whatever you want. So far, I'm only hosting clients that I do web design for. I don't have a hosting site setup to take hosting orders alone. So my rates might be different from others. For a 100mb and 2 Gig b/w plan, I might charge my web design clients $8/month or so but it all depends. I have one client who was paying $30/month for less than that!! I offered him this same plan for $20/month saving him 33% and he was more than happy to take it. I charge him that much because a. he's willing to pay it b. he's still saving money compared to what he was paying before and c. every now and then he makes requests to modify a few things here and there on his site and I do that for him at no charge. I really dont have to provide much support for hosting for him so I just look at it as charging a little bit more to maintain his site. His previous host didn't return his emails and snail mail letters for about 6 months before I started hosting his site. He probably would have gladly payed me $30/month for the same plan had I asked for it Hope that helps.
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| Posted by jjmac78, 10-09-2003, 10:10 PM |
| My points exactly speedy
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| Posted by terran11355@, 10-09-2003, 10:38 PM |
| Reliability, Uptime, speed, excellent support that is what you need for!
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