What do you think would serve as a fair price for...

[webcougar]

I'm in the process of designing some new plans as I am changing to a new server for my host.

What would you happily pay for hosting with the following:
7500 MB Web Space
600 GB Transfer
Free Domain
Free Setup

Technical Overview
- Powerful Clustered Servers
(Intel DUAL XEON Processors, SCSI Hard Drives, 12 GB Ram etc.)
- 24/7 Expert Helpdesk - Major Bandwidth Providers
- 24/7 Server Monitoring - 99.98% Server Uptime
- Linux Operating System - Secure Server (SSL) Included
- Host up to 25 domains!
- Free Whois Privacy (Optional)

Mail Features
- Unlimited POP3 Mailboxes
- Unlimited IMAP Mailboxes
- Unlimited E-Mail Forwarders
- SMTP Server
- Online Mail Access (Webmail)
- Catch-All Mailbox
- Spam Filtering
- Unlimited Mailing Lists

Web features
- 75000 MB. Web Space
- 600 GB Transfer
- Unlimited FTP Accounts
- FTP Access
- 1000 MySQL Databases (v4 & v5)
- FTPS (Encrypted FTP)
- PHP v4.4.1 & PHP v5.1.1
- GD Support
- Shockwave & Flash
- Microsoft Frontpage Support
- Custom Error Pages
- WAP Enabled
- XML Support
- Mod_Rewrite Enabled
- EXIF Support
- CGI/Perl
- SSI Support
- Python Support
- Private CGI-BIN
- ionCube Loader
- Zend Optimizer
- Run Zend Encoded Scripts
- Optional Hotlink Protection
- CURL Enabled
- PHPMyAdmin
- Webbuilder Software Included
- ImageMagick Support
- Netpbm Support
- Ruby on Rails

Additional Features (included)
- Web Based Administration Panel - Full DNS Management
- 1 New Domain Included (or transfer) - Multiple Domain Hosting
- Unlimited Subdomains - Own Cronjobs
- Online Web Statistics - Online Filemanager

[Lipsofgrace]

I would say it all depends on what it takes to be profitable from server costs, advertising, billing system, etc. It's different for every host.

[webcougar]

If i could profit enough from it would you say $200/yr ($16.66/mo) would be considered a great price?

[ldcdc]

7.5gb storage
600gb traffic/mo

(...)

- 75000 MB. Web Space
- 600 GB Transfer

That's not exactly consistent.

I agree with Lipsofgrace. These days there are markets where 600Gb go for $10, as crazy as that might be. It doesn't mean you must follow suit.

EDIT: My post suddenly gained a funny note.

[webcougar]

That's not exactly consistent.

Indeed the bulk of the message was done a while ago. just copied and pasted in here. My bad. Should have re-read the wording.

[repoman]

If you go with a quality host, they will offer you a VPS or a dedicated server

[hosty]

If i could profit enough from it would you say $200/yr ($16.66/mo) would be considered a great price?

Agreed!

[Craig]

That's not exactly consistent.

I agree with Lipsofgrace. These days there are markets where 600Gb go for $10, as crazy as that might be. It doesn't mean you must follow suit.

EDIT: My post suddenly gained a funny note.

Problem is, if he doesnt follow suit he will most likely fail.

[Jan]

For a very well established host and if I even needed those specs, I would pay $50 a month.

[JodoHost]

For a very well established host and if I even needed those specs, I would pay $50 a month.

I'd double that to $100 to $150/mo.. 600GB is alot of bandwidth. If a host wasn't overselling, that means 2mb of continuous streaming. Good bandwidth costs between $30 to $50 per mb per month. That means around $60 to $100 per month just in bandwidth costs.

[JodoHost]

(Intel DUAL XEON Processors, SCSI Hard Drives, 12 GB Ram etc.)

One question, why 12GB ram? is this a 32bit system? 12GB RAM on a 32 bit system is going to be slow. Remember 32 bit systems aren't designed for over 4GB of ram.. Software emulation (called PAE) is used to address higher quantities of RAM.

We typically use Dual Opteron SCSI servers, but limit RAM to 4GB on shared servers.. Allows us to host a decent number of websites leaving around 1GB to 512MB of ram free

[ldcdc]

I'd double that to $100 to $150/mo.. 600GB is alot of bandwidth.

I'm with you on that, though Jan might have been just joking.

[ITahmed]

I would go with Dedicated server..... I had a similar server requirement and paying $199/month.... Though I needed availability and fast bandwidth. In my case I needed to make sure it was up all the time and wanted a reputable company. If you are not running a commercial app that is time sensitive then you can probably get something for less. I would not recommend VPS for something this resource intensive. IMHO

[rohitj]

With that amount of bandwidth, it may be useful to up the amount of disk space. Generally, someone who needs that large of transfer will also need a ton of space for the files!

Just a thought.

[Sye]

I believe you got this plan from www.servage.net if im not mistaken, if your planning on having a reseller account then i would change the plans a bit more so people don't compare you with them as they charge £5.25/$7.75 per month for 75gb space, 1110gb bandwidth.

With the amount of space and bw they offer you could get a lot more plans if you cut them down, i.e

5gb space
50gb bandwidth
$5 per month

you could target a much wider range of customers with smaller plans instead of using most of your space/bw on a few customers. There would be a much larger profit involved with smaller packages.

Customers who want higher end spec plans usually will use what they pay for, therefor could cause you problems if all of them max your resources.