So I've not been on the forums before for any legnth of time, but today I've decided to take a few steps away from my design business, and let the staff worry about that, and work more towords our hosting company. So I've been interested in opinions of other hosts and buyers alike since I moved my direction.
I've been in the hoesting business for some time now and I've noticed some of what I would have called my close competitors starting to change their service packages to catch a different markets attention. Where some hosts have packages at $70+/annum with a few gigs space, more bandwidth than you could shake a monkey at and silly but appealing offers such as 1 million databases etc.. others are content with realistic 30 mb packages with 3gb bandwith for $30/annum.
Plesk seemed to be the most stable control panel out there, now Cpanel's reputation is improving, and even I've switched from plesk to Cpanel. I do think it's a more competitive strain when offering Cpanel, since everyone and there dog is doing it now, but..
1. What do you think the happy medium is?
2. What do you think the 'ideal' package would be for Joe Bloggs with his power tool business with no more than 10 staff and 450 products in his product line?
3. What do you think is better in your own opinion, and why?, The affordable priced basic packages (which is all anybody ever usually needs) or the 'all singing, all dancing, over the top packages that are expensive, but look at all the stuff that comes with it..' type of packages?
I've been in the hoesting business for some time now and I've noticed some of what I would have called my close competitors starting to change their service packages to catch a different markets attention. Where some hosts have packages at $70+/annum with a few gigs space, more bandwidth than you could shake a monkey at and silly but appealing offers such as 1 million databases etc.. others are content with realistic 30 mb packages with 3gb bandwith for $30/annum.
Plesk seemed to be the most stable control panel out there, now Cpanel's reputation is improving, and even I've switched from plesk to Cpanel. I do think it's a more competitive strain when offering Cpanel, since everyone and there dog is doing it now, but..
1. What do you think the happy medium is?
2. What do you think the 'ideal' package would be for Joe Bloggs with his power tool business with no more than 10 staff and 450 products in his product line?
3. What do you think is better in your own opinion, and why?, The affordable priced basic packages (which is all anybody ever usually needs) or the 'all singing, all dancing, over the top packages that are expensive, but look at all the stuff that comes with it..' type of packages?
