Because I know lots of the members here run or did run a web hosting company, I wondered if any ran or is running and affiliate program? and if you are running one, how successful has the program been going ??

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Further to that, can anyone recommend me a decent web hosting affiliate program - preferrably run direct by the host (and not say, cj.com etc.,) as many email me about issues regarding web hosting and I can see myself earning some little revenue with some well-placed web host affiliate links.


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We have been thinking about doing an affiliate program. Our web packages are $9.99 and $29.99 a month.

What do you think would be fair per sale?

I would say anywhere between 15% to 25% nothing more on a monthly basis of course as long as the client stays with your company.

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That is quite steep actually, it is already hard enough to compete in todays market's with scammers offering 99cents a month hosting.

to drain a monthly balance from someone at 15 - 20% is financial suicide.
Most hosts now days to persue their profits way oversell their boxes.
We do not, 160GB of space on each server with 120GB free space. then an additional for backups, + NAS backups
2000GB BW / 20GB BW per client for our $9.99 a month package means we will not put more than 65 clients on a single box.
They are Dual Xeon 64bit with a 100Mbps link to 19Gbps of backbone from various providers.


As you can see to cut you 25% would = no profit for us.

We just set up a client referral program where if you are a monthly client of ours on any of our monthly packages, every new client you refer will be a $10 service credit to your account.

If you want I will set you up with a $5 per refferal affliate program where you get paid in cash everytime your account reaches $100

I just finished coding the affiliate system, that graphs referrals to sale ratio. It will even credit you if the person comes back at another date via the main url. I have not finished the client section where you can view the graph of your own referral to sale ratio, but I will hurry and get it done if you are interested in being a affiliate.

I assume that your not overselling? placing only 65 clients on a Dula Xeon is a waste of money, 90% of your clients wont use the allocations you give them.

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No we are not overselling, and yes we understand that, not all clients use what is allocated to them, but in *Most* cases of these hosting providers that offer super cheap services is that they oversell to the point of performance degrade, it is not a question of the Dual Xeon taking a hit, the issue is BW and hard drive space.

as you can see from my calculations above that 100 clients would max your bandwidth, you should never allow BW to exceed 65%

yes clients do not always use what is allocated to them, but our target audience is businesses who require quality vs cheap oversold resources.

We are getting ready to launch a new business offering as well, Secure Offsite Backups. Using a special server combined with a client app to do FastBit patching, a truly secure offsite solution utilizing ClientKey encryption then transmittion over SSL.

New service for business

I made a thread for it, hopefully we can get some feedback.

[quote=Stephen]No we are not overselling, and yes we understand that, not all clients use what is allocated to them, but in *Most* cases of these hosting providers that offer super cheap services is that they oversell to the point of performance degrade, it is not a question of the Dual Xeon taking a hit, the issue is BW and hard drive space.

as you can see from my calculations above that 100 clients would max your bandwidth, you should never allow BW to exceed 65%

yes clients do not always use what is allocated to them, but our target audience is businesses who require quality vs cheap oversold resources.
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You have choosed your tageted audience, thats always the right step, in my opnion, you can always resell, but to the point that it doesnt degrade the quality, for example, when looking at my clients usage, most of them have 20 to 35GB bandwidh per month, 90% of them use 1 to 2 GB's /month.
If your going to put around 100 clients on a Dual Xeon, your prices should START at $10/month.

Looks good!

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