And avoid a mistake many beginners in business make: charge enough! Charging enough means you can do a generous affiliate program and still make money.
Seriously. With the amount often billed by consultants, clients aren't going to balk at double, triple, or even 10x the hosting costs of something like GoDaddy. (assuming reliability is there)
Also, I'd play with offering "unlimited" plans vs "cheap to upgrade" plans. Maybe the market you are targeting (if its a technical market, like django hosting mentioned above) associated "unlimited" plans with bad service or other trade-offs. A/B test until you're blue in the face.
its limited packages, aimed purely at the tiny business website. I have three packages, 10MB, 30MB and 70MB. This serves a number of purposes.
1. Limits the amount of risk from overselling
2. Increases the profitability of the server
3. Prevents abuse (people uploading mp3's, videos etc)
4. Easier Maintenance
I am flexible however, so if a customer needs a little more room I wont charge the earth for it.
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And avoid a mistake many beginners in business make: charge enough! Charging enough means you can do a generous affiliate program and still make money.
Seriously. With the amount often billed by consultants, clients aren't going to balk at double, triple, or even 10x the hosting costs of something like GoDaddy. (assuming reliability is there)
Also, I'd play with offering "unlimited" plans vs "cheap to upgrade" plans. Maybe the market you are targeting (if its a technical market, like django hosting mentioned above) associated "unlimited" plans with bad service or other trade-offs. A/B test until you're blue in the face.
its limited packages, aimed purely at the tiny business website. I have three packages, 10MB, 30MB and 70MB. This serves a number of purposes.
1. Limits the amount of risk from overselling 2. Increases the profitability of the server 3. Prevents abuse (people uploading mp3's, videos etc) 4. Easier Maintenance
I am flexible however, so if a customer needs a little more room I wont charge the earth for it.
70mb? You're more likely to oversell resources other than disk...