WebHosting Pricing- Some Quick Help?

[Grrilla]

Note: I posted this last night on the Webhosting Topics board, and am reposting here in hopes of getting a quicker answer. The potential customer is chomping at the bit.

A friend of my cousin needs some webspace and has asked me to accomodate him. Although I have an eNom resellers acct and use ResellerZoom for server space, providing hosting for someone else is a new experience.

The site is very off the wall- for example, it has been referenced and gets visited by the Howard Stern Show.
It receives approx 100 visits/da. It is offline ATM, and I vaguely remember that the reason for this is that the webmaster had a goin w/ the host because the servers went down a few times for extended periods and ultimately, the host totally flaked.

He says he needs 10 Gigs of space and a monthly bandwidth allowancece of 100 Gig. (His site has an abundant amt of graphics, unusual videos etc. and as I understand it, he's got some expansion plans.)

I'll be visiting here w/ more questions, but for starters:
- How much should I be charging? Going rate? Friendly rate?
- Do I set up a package and than an account for the domain the same as I do for my own sites or is a subaccount involved? I use cPanel.

Thanks.

 

[Grrilla]

Oh well. I'll take a piece of my own advice and go a Googlin. :wave:

 

[harkster]

I pay $35/mo for a resellers account (currently hosting about 40 domains) -- 2 gig space & 20 gig bandwidth. The servers are high end duel zeon with proactive maintenance. Alberta stats for my server is 2005 = 99.962%, so far this year 99.979% last 3 months --
2006 April 0 0 hrs, 0 mins, 0 secs 100.000%
2006 March 1 0 hrs, 28 mins, 59 secs 99.925%
2006 February 0 0 hrs, 0 mins, 0 secs 100.000%.

Has been well over a year since I had a support issue.

I am a great believer in 'best bang for the buck' so that kind of resources on top hardware (proactively managed) and not oversold should run in the $75-$100 range. Might give serious to his own (maintained) or a VPS.

Example offering last year -- they run 8 vps accounts per server.
VPS Package 1

20GB Storage
512Mbyte RAM Guaranteed
200GB Bandwidth
Equal share CPU
8 IPs
cPanel/rvskin/Fantastico
Fully Managed
$149 - Currently $125

I know that there are services offering for much less but that may be the reason for the present problem.

Hope this helps.

 

[JYM]

If your hosting is good, and you rarely receive any downtime, I would charge at least $20/mo INCLUDING the friendship deal. If you noticed downtime with your hosting, you should probably sell it to him for maybe $15/mo.

 

[verbster]

One of the major providers offers 10GB w/250GB transfer and all the bells and whistles for under $10/mo. 99+% uptime.