Hosting Price. Setting a good price.

[Matt_T_hat]

I have come to the conclusion that the only way I can get the level of web stuff that I need to is to grab a reseller account.

This places me in an interesting possition as I will have more then enough space and bandwidth.

As resellers are not exactly cheap I am going to try and resell (duh) the excess space.

The package uses fantastico dulux so it has stacks to offer. If I list the package as it has been sketched out (in notepad) I would very much like to hear how much you feel is fair. IE what should I charge?

The spec has been written to appel to non technical SMEs (shops and so forth) as that is the kind of person I may end up selling to. I need to cover about $30 a month to keep costs reasonable (about £16 ish).

I hope to sell a minimum of three such packages within two months to cover the above cost and can easily go to 6 before starting to consider upgrades to keep my needs met.

I need to pitch things to pay for growth while being a reasonable price and although £10 (Approx $19 ish) is a nice number to cover the costs (in two sales) it is no good if I am charging way too much.

So this is where you come in (hopefully) and can help me.

The spec:
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+ FrontPage 2002 Extensions - make your own web pages (if you want)
+ Unlimited email addresses (whatever@YOURDOMAINCOM)
+ - POP3 (outlook express)
+ - web based (like hotmail)
+ Personal Control Panel - easy non-technical administration
+ Don't let other peoples (lack of) vision limit you again
+ Increase your customer reach
+ - Extend your sales to the web
+ - Expand your shop into the digital world
+ 200 MB Space (at least 3,200 large pages)
+ 3500 MB Bandwidth (at least 56,000 page views a month)
+ 40+ proffesional website services ready to install (free)
+ - Forums (phpBB2, YaBBSE)
+ - Content Managment (XOOPS, DRUPLE)
+ - Mailing Lists (PHPlist)
+ - Blogs (B2Evolution, WordPress)
+ Daily backups (never loose anything again)
+ If you dream of useing the web for something - we can help you make it happen!


Some technical stuff
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+ Unlimited MySQL
+ Unlimited autoresponders
+ Unlimited Forwarders (keep using your current email setup but use your fancy new addresses)
+ Unlimited FTP
+ Unlimited Subdomains
+ Web based file manager
+ Python
+ Perl 5.x
+ CGI / TCL
+ PHP VERSION: 4.3.9
+ PHPmyAdmin
+ Macromedia Shockwave
+ Macromedia Flash
+ SSH
+ SSI
+ Custom Error Pages
+ Cron tabs
+ Private CGI-BIN



Full list of ready to go services
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Blogs:
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b2 (0.6.1)
b2evolution (0.9.0.8)
Nucleus (3.0)
pMachine Free (2.3)
WordPress (1.2)

Portals/CMS:
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Drupal (4.4.0)
Geeklog (1.3.9sr1)
Mambo Open Source (4.5(1.0.9))
PHP-Nuke (7.2)
phpWCMS (1.1-RC2)
phpWebSite (0.9.3-2 english)
Post-Nuke (0.750-RC3)
Siteframe (3.1.2)
Xoops (2.0.7) (website)

Customer Support:
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Crafty Syntax Live Help (2.8.4)
Help Center Live (1.2.4)
osTicket (1.2.7)
PHP Support Tickets (1.7)
Support Logic Helpdesk (1.2)
Support Services Manager (1.0b)

Discussion Boards:
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Invision Board (1.3)
phpBB2 (2.0.8a)
YaBBSE (1.5.5c)

E-Commerce:
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CubeCart (2.0.1)
OS Commerce (2.2 MS2)

FAQ:
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FAQMasterFlex (1.0)

Image Galleries:
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4images Gallery (1.7)
Coppermine Photo Gallery (1.3.0)
Gallery (1.4.3-pl2)

Mailing List:
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PHPlist (2.8.8)

Polls and Surveys:
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Advanced Poll (2.03)
phpESP (1.6.1)
PHPSurveyor (0.98rc8)

Project Management:
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PHProjekt (4.2)
dotProject (1.0.2)

Wiki:
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PhpWiki (1.2.4)
TikiWiki (1.8)

Other Scripts:
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Moodle (1.3.1)
Noah's Classifieds (1.3)
Open-Realty (1.1.5b)
phpAdsNew (2.0)
PHPauction (2.1)
phpCOIN (1.2.0)
phpFormGenerator (2.07b)
phpLinks (2.1.2)
WebCalendar (0.9.43)

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Moved to General Developer Forum

Its hard to say what price I would charge. But put more emphaisis on quality of service rather than quanity of services. Thats is a lot of stuff you are offering and it will take a lot of time to maintain and support customers.

[Matt_T_hat]

well, I offer me.

Plus I can rely on the dserver owners for help, they've been great.