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Posted by smunity, 05-22-2012, 11:14 AM
Hello everyone! I'm new here. I have been with HostGator for a long time now and love it! I just switched to reseller hosting for my clients and future clients. But, I"m not sure exactly how much disk space/bandwidth I should offer. I know that if a site has a lot of content/images it should it should be set to a higher disk space, 1k mb. But I don't know if that's too much or too little. I also heard for an average site, wordpress site, would be 200mb, but how much bandwidth should I set this to? If anyone has any insight as far as how much I should set the disk space and bandwidth, that would be helpful. I appreciate it, Thank you!!
Posted by KMyers, 05-22-2012, 11:16 AM
Hello, Typically the accepted formula is a 1:10 ratio. so 200 MB should be around 2 GB. Of course this is just a rough guideline.
Posted by smunity, 05-22-2012, 11:28 AM
Ok, great. Thanks for your reply! Just wondering if you happen to know an average size of website would be tho?
Posted by KMyers, 05-22-2012, 11:36 AM
Thats a tough one. Most websites I own are between 30 and 75 MB (including images/css). The problem is many customers want a value. Which would you rather buy Host 1 - $2.99 Per Month 200 MB Disk 2000 MB Bandwidth Host 2 - $3.99 Per Month 10 GB Disk Space 100 GB Bandwidth Keep in mind that in both cases, your site is only 60 MB total. The point I am making here is you may want to consider a small amount of overselling to make your site more marketable. Avoid the crazy "unlimited" plans, stay reasonable. 10 years ago, it would have been easy to sell 200 MB of Disk Space, this is no longer the case. 10 years ago the primary method of carrying everything around was on a 1.2 MB floppy disk as well
Posted by Stuart_c, 05-22-2012, 03:05 PM
The amount of diskspace bandwidth u want to sell depends on who ur selling to. If ur gonna be competing on wht then u gonna have to sell wat others hear are selling but if ur doing local businesses or watever then u will be able to sell at different amounts and costs.
Posted by Collabora, 05-22-2012, 04:58 PM
Beware hostgator reseller plan - they don't allow overselling, or so I am told
Posted by KMyers, 05-22-2012, 05:06 PM
You are correct, quite an outdated policy IMHO
Posted by technut, 05-22-2012, 08:28 PM
It doesn't always come down to money, but consider if your cost's are $100 a month for server space (all bells and whistles overhead included) of 500GB/5000GB-BW then you would need to know how much you will need in revenue to say in business. So your markup % would be a factor in the equation. Say 35% markup, and if you only sold 1 type of plan it would calculate something like 500GB/5000GB-BW divided by 25 clients = 20GB/200GB @ $5.00/month each, totals $125.00/month. Just an example, you'll need to find your own needs but you should never sell 100% of any space. So you would have to back down your clients or size of plan to make the right amount and reconfigure your price per plan. Regards!
Posted by Collabora, 05-22-2012, 08:31 PM
or even easier yet. Do what everyone else does by copying each other's plans
Posted by hostonclick, 05-22-2012, 11:27 PM
Prepare the plans depending to the reseller plan you signed with...
Posted by kpmedia, 05-23-2012, 09:29 AM
If you don't have this worked out already, why would you want to open a business? Seems to be another case of putting the cart before the horse.
Posted by rfdomn, 05-23-2012, 12:04 PM
LOL 10 years ago? What year do you think we're now?
Posted by kpmedia, 05-23-2012, 01:14 PM
Yeah, that is funny. I was using 1.44MB floppies 20 years ago, for $1 each in bulk.
Posted by rfdomn, 05-23-2012, 06:06 PM
Yes, 20 years ago. Not 10 ehehhe 10 years ago i bought my first DVD+RW drive..
Posted by 613websites, 05-23-2012, 09:02 PM
Yet, it is exactly the most likely reason as to why such a big company still provides quality services...I tend to stay away from resellers that allow overselling, because whose to say they wouldn't do it to my account as well?
Posted by Collabora, 05-23-2012, 09:09 PM
There is nothing wrong with overselling. As long as you get what you paid for what difference does it make to you?
Posted by Sinoco, 05-23-2012, 09:28 PM
I hope that's not what everyone else is doing. I remember reading a business book that said don't worry about your competition (costs blahblahblah). And then I read another that said if someone says they're not watching their competition they're competition they're lying. Anyhow, a real business should be looking at their own pocketbooks, and not picking costs out of the air. It's fine to compete on costs if you have the money to compete on costs. If not, then there are other ways to diversify.
Posted by mugo, 05-24-2012, 01:48 AM
Reseller, it works better to chop into little plans. Don't get greedy and try to make a ton off of a 25 buck a month reseller plan. Let's say you chop it into 10. That gives you (using the smallest HG 50/500 plan) 10 plans at 10GB / 50GB transfer. If you get 10 bucks per plan, that's 100.00, or 300% return in profit. That's about as low as I would go. Another popular way is (still based on the 50/500) is chop it into 500M/5G chunks, combine them to create larger hosting accounts. If your base 500M/5G is 5 bucks a month max (as an example), 1G/10G would be 10, and so on. (the plan chops into 100 or 50 of these plans, respectively). Paid annual, that makes them 60/120 annually. Sell out all plans on this average, and it's, in simplest form, an income of 500 / mo. That's a lot of very small websites, though. But, not bad for a 25 buck investment. 6Gs a year for 300 buck investment. Leaves a good amount for overhead. It takes a much longer investment in time to get 50/100 customers rather than 10, but either way you are in the black. Offer a range of plans and see what sells in your market niche. Either way, if you fill up your reseller plan, it's very easy to expand. Overselling...I"ll just say very few hosts do it right, but I see why HG doesn't allow it with as many plans as they host. Either way, someone is lying to someone. If the host doesn't allow it, there's nothing stopping you from marketing yours with more total spaced than you actually have. Either way, if you get into a situation where you hit your real limit, it's bad. I'd say it's better to give real limits and allow customers to UG cheaply, where they know up front what the cost is should they need to expand.
Posted by top hosting, 05-24-2012, 03:54 AM
Based on My experience that I've ever done, if you have a client who has a website containing images or flash, I think a large space is recommended. You can choose a minimum capacity of 10GB of disk space to get the maximum performance. If you have a 10 GB capacity, I think you can have multiple clients at once.
Posted by smunity, 05-30-2012, 12:51 PM
I already have clients, so why not make a lil extra money. I can now include this into my services. And, it's easier for me to manage all under one roof and I"m familiar with hostgator. Thanks!
Posted by Collabora, 05-30-2012, 03:30 PM
then you should know how much disk space and bandwidth you will need in total and for each. Use your current sites as a guide for future sites.
Posted by Tibaz, 05-30-2012, 03:37 PM
There are so many compnies just have a look and choose the one that meets you

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