One-Payment GOOD?

[MainHosting]

Are one-time payment plans good to use?

 

[Artashes]

To use or to offer?

 

[MainHosting]

Offer

 

[Blue]

What do you mean by one time payment?
Are you talking about lifetime hosting?

 

[MainHosting]

life time

 

[EvilHaider]

As a customer I'd never go for that.

 

[Blue]

How do you plan to offer lifetime hosting for a one time fee?

I don't really want to start a debate about it, lets just say I think it's a bad idea to either offer it, or for someone to sign up for it.

 

[Martie]

As a host I would never offer it, and from a consumers point I would be very skeptical of hosts offering it.
They think they are getting a lifetime account and then find out there are "hidden charges"

 

[MainHosting]

ok

 

[grahamc]

Bad Idea. Huge commitment on both sides. Customer won't buy it and you will not support it.

 

[Olternit]

A one-time payment doesn't make a whole lot of sense for the host or the customer.

 

[rambo6376]

I agree. The site might get unexpectedly large and you'd be at a loss providing more for less - as for the customer, it might be a total bust and they feel they've wasted their money.

 

[Artashes]

The truth is - it is impossible to put real VALUE on something like this.

 

[paul-ukwsd]

As a customer I wouldn't take the offer up of lifetime hosting, what's to say the company will be trading in 2 years time? Or even 6 months with that business model

 

[thedavid]

Agreed - that's a pretty terrible idea. Most of the hosts that offered it in the past have gone under, for a good reason - it requires constant new signups in order to function as a business model.

-David

 

[G2-Hosting]

I completely agree with Martie on this matter.

 

[Anjay]

Personally, I don't think it would work for many, many reasons.

However, it may do, if you had a few people whom all signed up for 10gb bandwidth and 750mb space at $8,500 - then, it may work. However I doubt anyone can shell out that much for 70 years worth of hosting in one go.