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Mobile Website Hosting?

by rolltide
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What are most people charging monthly for mobile hosting?
#hosting #mobile #website
  • Profile picture of the author P1
    Quick browse through the "Mobile Website Design big business in our local market!" thread:

    hey rolltide...if your experienced in HTML quick...I can create a mobile site using Quentin script in about 1 hour...thats a 4 page site. I am experimenting with different prices...I have been asking for $497 with free hosting for one year...I have also sold charging $397 plus $29.95 per month for hosting...if its a service based business like a restaurant that would have frequent updates I charge $47 to $97 per month. Plus I optimize the mobile site for mobile search.
    One thing I've added to the model above is offering a web PAGE on OUR site to the bizz owner. For this option, I charge $97 plus either $37/m for hosting and one change a month, or $57/m for one change a week.
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  • Profile picture of the author zedert
    Originally Posted by rolltide View Post

    What are most people charging monthly for mobile hosting?
    Well, you don't have to charge your customer for mobile hosting, since it seems a better solution to host the mobile and the classic version on the same ftp, whereas you access the mobile version through a subdomain or not (example: mysite.com/mobile/ or mobile.mysite.com).

    Since you need to modify the htaccess and the user agent on the index (at least if you aim to do a good, professional job), you can upload the html files in the same ftp burst.

    If you outsource the creation, I am pretty sure the outsourcers will bill you a hosting.

    Trouble is, host's IP is taken into account by google for seo purposes. So, if you are in USA while your host is in let's say, Ouzebekhistan, your SEO won't be optimum.

    Charging for hosting will up your sales margin anyway. So don't give it up, except when competition is too strong. That's what I've done twice so far, and since it lowered my customer TCO. I've silghtly raised the update fee to compensate a bit. Overall, I gained less,but made the sales anyway
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    • Profile picture of the author WillR
      Originally Posted by zedert View Post

      Trouble is, host's IP is taken into account by google for seo purposes. So, if you are in USA while your host is in let's say, Ouzebekhistan, your SEO won't be optimum.
      I keep hearing people say this but yet to see any proof of this. I highly doubt Google would be so naive - they are a lot smarter than you think. They would not be silly enough to think that because a site is hosted on a server in a particular country that is has anymore weight than a site hosted on a server in a different country.

      C'mon... we are in 2011 not 1999!
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      • Profile picture of the author J Bold
        Originally Posted by WillR View Post

        I keep hearing people say this but yet to see any proof of this. I highly doubt Google would be so naive - they are a lot smarter than you think. They would not be silly enough to think that because a site is hosted on a server in a particular country that is has anymore weight than a site hosted on a server in a different country.

        C'mon... we are in 2011 not 1999!
        Will,

        I think if it's true, it is one of those 1000 things that Google looks at to make up a ranking, so if you had everything else optimum for your SEO and not that, it would not be a big deal at all.

        That's my view on it.
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        • Profile picture of the author WillR
          Originally Posted by redicelander View Post

          Will,

          I think if it's true, it is one of those 1000 things that Google looks at to make up a ranking, so if you had everything else optimum for your SEO and not that, it would not be a big deal at all.

          That's my view on it.
          Yeah, it would be one of those factors that if used, would only be to decipher two otherwise totally identical sites apart.
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