Currently I pay around $20 Cdn/month for a shared host...
I have no complaints and i've been with these guys for about 5 years...however I have no praises either
I have very few visitors/month, maybe 500 to 1,000 unique hits...so a shared host works well for the time being...still...
I have some clients whom I wish to setup accounts with my hosting company and charge them a small monthly fee as well...yes i'm allowed to do this.
I'm thinking a smarter approach might be to rent a dedicated server and partition it into shared servers as well...putting my own web site on their as well...
I"m thinking about $10/month per 10,000 hits (non-unique)...
These web sites are all small businesses, but with high quality designs, Flash, etc...and they use my own CMS which is based on flat files, no RDBMS...but the option is there is they so choose...
Obviously I'm considering pushing the price up/month based on amount of software installed, etc...as well as bandwidth...
So I ask, knowing the above, what are some considerations, etc...I should take into account?
Do my prices sound feasible? Consider that my support is much better than any dedicated server company...likely 24/7...
What are some metrics other companies use when offering hosting + additional services...?
My hosting company offers an insane amount of bandwidth...something like 20 GB/month...I'll never use that on a shared host...so I'm sure it's a marketing gimick...
Anyways, just curious, what is everyones opinion on this subject???
Cheers