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Ok, I'm looking at pushing out some webhosting through my profitable name (ie. not phoenix). But before I do, I would like to get some opinions on the major plans I intend to offer so far its been very positive but I'd like some more perspectives if possible.

So yeh, here the 2 main ones are:
$5.00/m = 3 domains hosted (1 main, 2 addon), 2gb space, 50gb bandwith, unlimited mail/mysql/subs/etc.
$10.00/m = 5 domains hosted (1 main, 4 addon, 1 free...maybe, still discussing that last part), 5gb space, 70-100gb bandwith (undecided as of yet), unlimited mail/mysql/subs/etc.

Now, I'm not even positive if these are the plans we ended up agreeing on amounst ourselves but if they're not then they pretty bloody close.

Anyway, what I want is your comments and/or opinions about the value of these plans, how they can improve and such. Whatever it is that you think. Now also, be reasonable, these are meant to be priced so that I bring out a profit to cover server costs and to even help fund phoenix and such projects.

It's good idea to give unlimited mysql, mail, subs. I don't get that point about 3 domains, what means main? In the server to park? and 1st packege is good as it can be to me. Another one, you can give a 70gb bw i think, and that free domain is great idea. But i think you can do like some rise prise if you wanna get free domain pay $12/m or $10. It'll be more commercial for that one ;-)

very cheap...are you sure that isn't to cheap?

krod wrote:very cheap...are you sure that isn't to cheap?

Indeed cheap, but low prices mean many customers; anyway, in a business the first thing is to identificate what your client want. In this case what do you think that your potential clinet expects? to be as cheap as possible or to be stable and reliable? The answer is obvious, the quality; that is why your strategy must include some guarantees of the services.

krod wrote:very cheap...are you sure that isn't to cheap?

They have been designed so that they will be profitable if we can sustain the required user numbers otherwise they are too cheap.

makehaste wrote:that is why your strategy must include some guarantees of the services.

I don't believe in "guarantees". For example, one of my current providers gives me an SLA which includes 99.99% network connectivity uptime and 100% hardware uptime however at the end of the day, it means nothing, if they don't meet it I get a few dollars back or maybe some bonus thing and I really don't notice $2 being taken off my bill because they were down for an hour.

thebeast wrote:I don't get that point about 3 domains, what means main?

Generally, when you purchase shared hosting you purchase it with a main domain which is what your account is listed under, some also allow you to have additional domains hosted under the same account name these being the addon ones.