{Opinions Needed} $10/month webhosting

[hellfreeze]

**PLEASE DON'T TURN THIS INTO A FLAME THREAD. I NEED HONEST OPINIONS**

I'm curious as to what you guys think...well, for the webhosting people. Below is a possible $10/month plan. There will probably be a $5/month plan for like 500 megs space and 25 gigs transfer, but I don't know yet.

[*]2 gig space
[*]100 gig transfer
[*]Unlimited SQL
[*]Unlimited subdomains
[*]10 domains (might change)

All servers will be equiped with the following:

[*]AMD Athlon 64 3200+
[*]1-2 gig Kingston/Kingmax/Crucial/Geil DDR400 RAM
[*]300-400 gig HD OR 200 gig 10,000 RPM HD
[*]10mbit dedicated line
[*]Plesk 7 control panel
[*]PostgreSQL
[*]Coldfusion
[*]Tomcat
[*]Spamassassin
[*]Onsite Website builder
[*]Etc

Please, constructive criticism. I know there's gonna be a lot of "this can't be trusted" and "go with reputable webhosters" etc...but I'm just looking for a simple "do prices/features look good?"

- hellfreeze

 

[Anubis]

00 gig transfer? that doesnt sound good

looks good otherwise

i pay 10$/month for 4gigs space 65gig bandwidth
and all that other stuff
hosted on a Dual 2.8 Xeon w/ HT

 

[hellfreeze]

Originally posted by: Anubis
00 gig transfer? that doesnt sound good

looks good otherwise

i pay 10$/month for 4gigs space 65gig bandwidth
and all that other stuff
hosted on a Dual 2.8 Xeon w/ HT

sorry about that. i sought opinions on another board and i copy and pasted the specs. updated now

 

[dartworth]

it sounds to cheap...:shocked:

 

[hellfreeze]

Originally posted by: dartworth
it sounds to cheap...:shocked:

well the prices can always be increased, if that makes you happy

 

[hellfreeze]

^bump^

 

[mugs]

Is there still room on any of the AT dedicated servers? You'd get more for your money.

 

[sciencewhiz]

are you selling the plans, or looking to get this plan? if the latter, what company?

 

[RossMAN]

You get what you pay for.

For budget web hosting it's hard to beat Telnap.com which has many happy customers.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: mugs
Is there still room on any of the AT dedicated servers? You'd get more for your money.

Not to interfere with the OP, but you can expect a post from me in ATOT tomorrow evening listing the free space thats opened up.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Ok, and now some comments to the OP.

It looks like you are starting a webhosting business so here's a few comments for you.

Thats too cheap, plain and simple. I would say as an "educated guess" that the price you are posting if under your cost. Let me elaborate, using what I am guessing from your post:

-You are building that server, as it seems very customized
-You will be colocating it in a datacenter on a 10mbps port, with some sort of decent bandwidth provider.
-Plesk costs $20 on average for a 100 domain license, $30 for a unlimited domain license.
-You are going to be installing Tomcat on a severely underpowered server. Sorry but thats the truth, its a powerful box, but not enough for Tomcat. Get a Xeon

And now let me just make some very general comments:
-Customers know when something is too cheap
-You are selling bandwidth at $10 per 100gb. You will have a server on a 10mbps port. The average cost per megabit on that allotment is $30-35. Thats $350 for 10mbit. The max for a 10mbit connection is ~3200gb if used completely 24x7, realistically expect 1500-1700b of usage. If you sell 1500gb of bandwidth, you would make only $150-$170.
-To make up for a loss of money, you would severely oversell that server.

I can think of a ton more comments, but I am just showing you what a educated consumer would know, and usually they would analise the business just like I have done. As you will see in my sig, I do indeed own a hosting company, and I know the work and costs involved. Because of that I believe that I just gave you a semi-accurate overview regarding what you posted. You never mentioned where you will be selling this or if you are buying hosting, so I don't know exactly what more to say.

If you have any questions for me feel free to PM me.

 

[Anubis]

woops

 

[HyTekJosh]

From the looks of it, you plan on cramming as many people on the server as you can until it ends up becoming overloaded (judging by the amount of HD space you want). You should pace the specs a bit and plan on getting more than one server if you are looking to attract a large volume of customers. I'd recommend a Dual Xeon server for the applications that you want to run and if you plan on hosting a lot of customers on that one box, you are going to want more than 10mbps of bandwidth available. Also, selling 2GB storage and 100GB of transfer for $10 month places you in the ill-fated value host sector. Lastly, make sure you invest in a backup solution (backup hard drives and off-site backups).