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Offering free hosting as Bonus - Flippa advise needed

by motley
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Hello all,

I'm a young site flipper and my question is about offering a free hosting as a bonus to the auction winner. I know it works and most my competitors do that. I had a Baby Croc account at Hostgator before and couldn't offer such bonus, but all was changed recently. I've bought VPS Level 3 at HG and transferred my old account. Now I'm ready to offer a few free month hosting, but before I have a question to hosting resellers.

I have to create a package for accounts I will resell. What quotas should I assign to such account? Here is what I have now:

Quota (MB)- ?
Bandwidth (MB) - ?
Max FTP Accounts - unlimited
Max Email Accounts - unlimited
Max Email Lists - unlimited
Max Databases - unlimited
Max Sub Domains - unlimited
Max Parked Domains - unlimited
Max Addon Domains - unlimited

Any suggestions please, better from own experience.

Thanks in advance,
Dmitrij
#advise #bonus #flippa #free #hosting #needed #offering #vps
  • Profile picture of the author Aniket
    I dont have any experience with flippa but in general you can offer
    Quota: 1 Gb
    BandWidth: 3-5 GB.
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    • Profile picture of the author solado
      To be honest you could offer as little as 100MB disk space, this would be enough for wordpress, theme, images and a number of articles with room to spare.

      Bandwidth could be 5GB.
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  • Profile picture of the author motley
    Thank you guys.

    I'm going to offer free hosting for 3-6 month and than charge every month as any other hosting service does, so these limits are important. I'd like to offer a good solution for my buyers, but without to overload my VPS. Will someone pay $5/mo for 100MB (or 1GB) quota?
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  • Profile picture of the author solado
    for $5 I would say go with the 1GB disk space, Sell it like its the best service since sliced bread.

    Many people will be willing to pay it as they dont have their own hosting accounts, many people on flippa are looking for a website built and good to go. They dont want to play around with the technical side of things like hosting
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