Hello,

I just bought a reseller account.

I have 30gb of space and 160gb of bandwidth.

I would like to make a decent profit out of this.

Any suggestions on what kind of packages I should offer?

Thanks,
Pádraig

Go and offer accounts to someone. I thin kthe forums are a good place to do this.

What kind of packages should I offer them?

Well 1st get a website... Then make something that will fit your reseller account and that will fit your customers. Not a very hard thing to do, but you need to do market reasearch.

Originally Posted by PadraigCurran

I have 30gb of space and 160gb of bandwidth.

How much do you pay and who's the host? I am looking for good and good priced VPS provider...

I pay $5.99 a month. http://numberonehost.co.uk

hi there, you may want to visit several web hosts sites and compare their plans against what you have to play with in terms of disk space, bandwidth and features. Obviously the more money you have to play with, the more you can offer, but i would shy away from ridiculous offers. Like 5TB disk space and 4TB bandwidth, crap like that...

Heres what I have come up with

500mb of space
15gb bandwidth
1 free domain

$5 a month.

Do you think thats fair?

500mb of space
15gb bandwidth
1 free domain

$5 a month.

Do you think thats fair?

Don't really want to discourage you, but you should start with a professional site to get the best exposure of your services and then, the qusetion of support, how are you going to settle this? Will you be supporting your clients yourself or outsource from the third-party?
You will have to think it over twice to compete with web hosting resellers like webhostingbuzz.com

Yea that's what I did upon setting up my own hosting company I just went around to other hosts and compared prices there.

I don't think its just about the bandwidth and disk space though you know because I have seen sites that give unlimited and have gone bust or don't get many customers it's about customer relations and the quality of support you offer and if you charge like some hosts charge for the smallest amount of support etc.

Just take a look around other hosts see what they do etc

I think it's great that you want to jump into the web hosting market, but you have to realize that this is not going to be easy to get into. It's a tough market, and other people will eat you alive.

I always recommend that you need to research, research, research before you jump into it. Judging by your post, you haven't done this at all.

Do you know what your website is going to look like? What kind of market are you going to cater to? Are you just going to offer shared hosting, or do you plan on growing into other areas in the future? Are you going to offer managed support with all accounts, or are they going to be unmanaged with a charge after so many tickets are sent through? Will you offer domain registrations with this? What kind of billing client are you going to use? What support system are you going to offer? Will that include 24/7/365 Live support?


I don't mean to sound so daunting, but there's a lot to put forth and consider before you even start.

Its never should be just about the bandwidth and disk space but ALWAYS the customer experience and support. Uptime and reliability is 2nd.

Actually, it's a combination of all of those services. You can have great customer service/support, with uptime/reliability, but if you don't have packages that compete with what the market offers right now, you won't get anywhere.

Support, uptime and prices are the most essential things in reselling IMO.

Originally Posted by rllunzmann

Its never should be just about the bandwidth and disk space but ALWAYS the customer experience and support. Uptime and reliability is 2nd.

I agree with your sentiment Ryan, although I'm not sure it comes across quite as you intended?

Customer experience/support are without a doubt the single most important issue(s) to contend with - if the customer is happy then you're well on your way to doing a good job.

However, uptime/reliability/performance are all highly important factors since really you're offering a service - if that service isn't of the required quality to suit the needs of your clients then they're not going to be sticking with you.

So I wouldn't go as far as putting those issues "2nd" as you suggest, but I'd say they're perhaps 1.0001 (so just a tiny bit behind 1st...)

Originally Posted by Riane

Actually, it's a combination of all of those services. You can have great customer service/support, with uptime/reliability, but if you don't have packages that compete with what the market offers right now, you won't get anywhere.

I also agree with this to a point; if you're charging more than your competitors, but also offering a better service (e.g. more reliable, better performance, more efficient support etc.) then you still have a market. The issue is therefore about value, or (more accurately) perceived value compared to other players in your market.

you can try variety of package. And start with small package even with just 50mb.

yeah.. and make like 5-6 packages...