How much do you charge your clients for hosting?

[eger Participant Total posts: 3]

How much do you charge your clients for hosting?

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[joker Participant Total posts: 8 Likes: 1]

I pay about $150 per month for VPS on http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/vps/hosting/

I charge $10-$15 per month for simple websites and $30 per month for clients who host some content heavy sites such as Magento (those are very resource hungry).

[eger Participant Total posts: 3]

Thx for the answer! Do you charge extra for emails? Any limits on webspace, databases or transfer? What about data backup and restoring and access to cPanel/Plesk?

[daniel Keymaster Total posts: 28 Likes: 4]

Emails – I give it for free. This is a good selling point for me. Some hostings charge for email addresses, and in a few cases clients migrated to me just because of unlimited email addresses.

I do give access to cPanels, no limits on database or transfer. I have about 20 clients hosting on my machine so I monitor the hosting use and when one of the sites is abusing the resources, I contact the client to discuss. However, for sites which would abuse the data transfer or space (large ecommerce mainly) I always suggest the client to have their own dedicated VPS (~$50 per month). That being said – I try to host only very small sites.

You should have an affiliate account with your favorite hosting (I like wiredtree and MT, for more demanding sites I like Rackspace and AWS), so you can earn referral fees.

For backups, I use whatever plesk or cpanel provides (with backing it up on an external AWS webspace). I use codeguard.com for more demanding clients.

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