NationStates Jolt Archive

I run a small (Very small) hosting business off of a single dedicated server. So far my net income is about five bucks. Yeah, five bucks, only from giving 500MB of space to my friend for $5. And if you're too ignorant to notice, the business name is FHN Hosting (Well, my original Opinion site was The Foe Hammer Nation, named after Michael Savage's Savage Nation, but once I decided to use my server for hosting, I changed it to FHN Hosting. You figure it out.)

Anyway, even if you're just looking for 100 Megabytes of space to host your nation's page, or a whole Gig to start your own Game/company/whatever, consider helping out a friend (:wink:) before turning to the corporate giants for your business.

For each dollar you pay you get 100MB of Disk Space, 1000MB of Transfer (Otherwise known as Bandwidth), 20 Email Accounts, 2 subdomains (If you're hosting a domain, which, by the way, I will host on my nameservers free of charge if you buy some webspace) and other kickass features. Of course, the kickassedness increases as you move up the ranks (100MB, 200MB, 300MB, 400MB, 500MB and 1GB). Listed below are the plans I'm offering:

100MB Budget Plan
100MB Disk Space Monthly
1000MB Bandwidth Monthly
4 Parked Domains
4 Addon Domains
2 Subdomains
Optional IP (Extra $3 monthly, I have to pay for it from my hosting provider)
CGI Access: Optional ($.10)
20 Email Accounts
1 FTP Account
Frontpage Extensions accepted
5 SQL Databases
2 Email Lists
Price per Month: $1

200MB Small Business Plan

200MB Disk Space Monthly
2000MB Bandwidth Monthly
8 Parked Domains
8 Addon Domains
4 Subdomains
Optional IP (Extra $3 monthly, I have to pay for it from my hosting provider)
CGI Access: Optional ($.20)
40 Email Accounts
2 FTP Accounts
Frontpage Extensions accepted
10 SQL Databases
4 Email Lists
Price per Month: $2

300MB Power Plan

300MB Disk Space Monthly
3000MB Bandwidth Monthly
12 Parked Domains
12 Addon Domains
6 Subdomains
Optional IP (Extra $3 monthly, I have to pay for it from my hosting provider)
CGI Access: Optional ($.30)
60 Email Accounts
3 FTP Accounts
Frontpage Extensions accepted
15 SQL Databases
6 Email Lists
Price per Month: $3

400MB Professional Plan

400MB Disk Space Monthly
4000MB Bandwidth Monthly
16 Parked Domains
16 Addon Domains
8 Subdomains
Optional IP (Extra $3 monthly, I have to pay for it from my hosting provider)
CGI Access: Optional ($.40)
80 Email Accounts
4 FTP Accounts
Frontpage Extensions accepted
20 SQL Databases
8 Email Lists
Price per Month: $4

500MB Gold Plan

500MB Disk Space Monthly
5000MB Bandwidth Monthly
20 Parked Domains
20 Addon Domains
10 Subdomains
Optional IP (Extra $3 monthly, I have to pay for it from my hosting provider)
CGI Access: Optional ($.50)
100 Email Accounts
5 FTP Accounts
Frontpage Extensions accepted
25 SQL Databases
10 Email Lists
Price per Month: $5

1000MB Ultimate Plan

1000MB Disk Space Monthly
10000MB Bandwidth Monthly
40 Parked Domains
40 Addon Domains
Unlimited Subdomains
Optional IP (Extra $3 monthly, I have to pay my hosting provider $2 per IP )
CGI Access: Optional ($1.00)
Unlimited Email Accounts
Unlimited FTP Accounts
Frontpage Extensions accepted
Unlimited SQL Databases
20 Email Lists
Price per Month: $10

What do you think of my plans and options so far? Good? Bad? Somewhat strange?

FHN Hosting hosts domains as well as Subdomains. Once I get a whole jumble of cockups sorted out with our current Registrar, I will be able to set up subdomains for people who don't want to purchase a domain.

Hint: If you're going to register a domain, PLEASE don't use Interland. Please, please, please. Use GoDaddy or a service that doesn't suck.

yay for FH! :D

Try giving a small amount of free space away to encourage people to buy the full deal.

Sounds good. How about a 50 Meg 7 day trial?

Could work. Check out your competitors, like http://www.freewebs.com.

You could also finance free hosting with compulsory banner ads, removeable upon upgrading to a paid site.

Could work. Check out your competitors, like http://www.freewebs.com.

You could also finance free hosting with compulsory banner ads, removeable upon upgrading to a paid site.

Aye, but where would I get a script that would insert the ads? Plus, I would need to find things to advertise.

I found this (https://www.google.com/adsense/)on google. Any use?