I'm thinking of buying a reseller account and either charging a small amount for it or giving it free and just asking for donations.

So, if it was free would you donate? If so, how much?

If it cost money how much would you be willing to pay?

(Take it as 100mb space, 1gb bandwidth, unlimited database etc)

EDIT: Forgot to mention that if it was free it would only be open to this community (maybe the RSC community too) and it wouldn't have ads.

well it would depend heavily on what so of technology your webserver supports i.e. PHP, ASP, JSP, Ruby etc etc...
what kind of database server software do you run? do you have any 3rd party software for editing the databases? like PHP MyAdmin or something.
will provide domain names aswell?
what sort of OS is your webserver running on?

The server would have:

PHP 5
Unlimited MySQL
PERL
Python
SSI
Cron
Frontpage extensions
Curl
GD
Image Magick

Unlimited emails

It would have cPanel 10 with Fantastico

And finally unlimited FTP accounts and subdomains.


If there's anything you can think of that I've missed please tell me.

EDIT: cPanel comes with phpMyAdmin installed and it would be on a Linux server. (I don't know the specific build, sorry)
I could provide domains but I don't know what price it would be yet. (No free domains, sorry)
I could provide SiteBuilder but it'll cost $2 a month (just over £1) and ASP sites will cost $5 a month (just over £2.60)

EDIT2: If you vote on the poll for wanting it for free then please select whether you would donate or not.

EDIT3: If you were going to pay then would you pay £2 a month?

My own requirements are far beyond what could be eeked out of an account such as that so it would be wrong for me to reply to your poll and say what I "THINK" other people would do, what I will say though, is human nature never ceases to amaze me.

I think that is pretty reasonable price... but the question is why take from a private hoster when you can get a hosting from a more reliable (?) big webhosting company?

Currently I have 25 € /year with 100 mb space and 2 gb / month bandwidth (though which you can easily "upgrade" to 8 gb / month for free just by adding the a link to your webpage, kind of a bonus).

I'm not sure, I'm just seeing whether it would be worth charging, if not I might as well offer it for free but just accept donations to help cover the cost

EDIT: I'm assured that the uptime is 99.9%

Thinking about it I may advertise the paid hosting around some forums I know and offer free hosting for LFS users (application by PM so I know you're a genuine LFS player)

EDIT2: Domain names would be $8.75 (lowest price I can get for them, so no profit here) which is about £4.60 per year.

Quote from Leifde :

EDIT2: Domain names would be $8.75 (lowest price I can get for them, so no profit here) which is about £4.60 per year.

As said previously, I've got my own boxes around, so its not really fair for me to vote; especially as I wouldn't use the facilities. However, some advice; If you've never done this before, becareful and be very clear about what you do and do not provide. Despite it being free, you should never underestimate how much people can whine.

On the topic of domains, you can get them for the ludicrous price of about £2.99 from 123-reg at the moment. The big plus is that their DNS is lightning quick atm, of course changing nameservers isn't difficult either.

Just giving you options and ideas

I can't really vote either, got my own too.

I went ahead and bought the reseller account. If you want free hosting then please PM me.

(Donations are kindly accepted )

I host all my stuff on my own Linux Debian Server (my horse!, backups webhostal, FTP, printer server, life long partner...), but i am thinking about getting:
Diskspace - 2GB
Traffic - 20GB
Features - Unlimited
2.00GBP per month
Order today, with a domain from 5.99GBP
or...
Shared Professional
Diskspace - 5GB
Traffic - 50GB
Accounts/features - Unlimited
5.95GBP per month
*Free Domain* .com/.net/.org

And so the list goes on of packages!
(But il get 25% off each price per month for being in the know )

I have found a 50MB space/unlimited bandwidth hostal for FREE (not tested the bandwidth, but its hosting OSR's new site in creation )

$10 US got me a years worth of

20GB space
750 GB bandwidth
2 free domain names
30 database
100 emails

And the usual php/perly/mysql stuff.

Would normally be $9.95 a month.

based on the fact that the domains cost that much alone, i wouldnt say that input means an aweful lot really would you?
Not that most of the similar comments actually mean anything, someone's trying to offer hosing to interested people, i dont quite get why the 'ive got' posts are really needed for this specific thread topic.

Asside from the impossible to match setup sil3ntwar says he got (we wont ask what services were 'performed' for this ) the others i've seen far cheaper for far better, double specs for half the price, but when you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

I gave Leifde a shout on Friday letting him know i was in the middle of something similar, im about to put that live for testing purposes in the next day or 2 for the Mercury guys to do some damage to it for a couple of weeks, should have it properly up and running for xmas/new year.

Anyway, to chip in with the original topic...
For hosting, i know when i was with Memphis-Bleek i did a little scouting and asked around for someone able to offer free hosting in exchange for us advertising on either the site or on our skins, by chance a N2003 racer read the message and offered us exactly what we were looking for and wasnt bothered about the adverts, though we still put there name on our skins and site, even now with Mercury when i swapped things around, we still have PrimalWebServices on our skins and site despite me moving them to my own server ages ago. Just our way of saying thanks for helping us out.
So if i could find a free option, then we'd definetly take that route, otherwise we would have had to chip in for paid hosting.
Hopefully that makes sense, that was where we were at 4 and 2 years ago, but as i now have hosting on a couple of servers myself its no longer an issue, so hopefully what we did a while back helps give you some insight.

My host is slowly starting to piss me off. It's gone down twice this year, and when it goes down, it goes down for a day or two :/

Might change to the host a mate I know uses, pays the same as I do, and gets so much more.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

My host is slowly starting to piss me off. It's gone down twice this year, and when it goes down, it goes down for a day or two :/

Might change to the host a mate I know uses, pays the same as I do, and gets so much more.

If that was me in your position, i would change. If your site in your sig (snail porn haha) is hosted with this company, i looked a moment ago, think its down again hahaha
Offtopic...on offtopic : Just seen your tour of flat (in sig), i like

Quote from jamesrowe :

If that was me in your position, i would change. If your site in your sig (snail porn haha) is hosted with this company, i looked a moment ago, think its down again hahaha
Offtopic...on offtopic : Just seen your tour of flat (in sig), i like

It went down yestarday, still waiting for it to come back up. And to add to my back luck, I think I've lost my .co.nr address too, which sucks as I've had it for a dark age

Heh, I have a lot of free time, that's how I fill it.