It's very much up to the individual company - how do you want to set the
server up? How much space allocation are you going to offer? What kind of
support are you going to give? Can you/your server provider offer 99% up
time? Do you want to offer mail? If so should you get a dedicated
mail/chat server too? Are you going to hire support/telephone staff to
assist users? Does everyone get a ftp account? Stats server?
Limited/monitored IP/bandwidth? Will you offer database connectivity at
cost or extra? After about 100 to 200 mb server space do you want to advise
the client/s to rent their own server? The list goes on, but do some
research around the industry - we thought that our prices where competitive,
but when we did research we realised that we were Vastly overcharging for
smaller spaces, also we host some of our NZ clients and they expect to pay
no more that $100 NZ per year for a 10mb site WITH coldfusion and SQL
support and connectivity - best thing to do is to do some of your own
research - go to Allaire.com - find hosting partners - contact them about
hiring space/renting whole servers, etc and go global - UK is a one site
high rate market - US is a multi-server farm huge power low cost market -
NZ/OZ is a one site/server low money market.... etc, etc.
J
(probably best to continue this off list.....)
-----Original Message-----
From: Heidi Belal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 26 April 2001 11:36
To: CF-Talk
Subject: hosting
Another question with regards to hosting! I know this
isn't very relevant but i'd really like to learn!
if you have a server and are going to sell hosting
space on it, how do you devise the cost at which to
sell the space?
I'm also interesed to know a lot more on hosting
etc..so if you could recommend some where were i can
find information on it..it would be great!
Thanks! :)
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