Hosting Reseller Package Sizes?

I personally have found that it is based on your market and how you position yourself.

Our company doesn't really ever get into the specs of space that we are providing (because the client doesn't care). We position ourselves as trustable experts and have a baseline package that just tends to work for our customers.

If we had a customer using an excessive amount of resources we would basically inform them of what's going on - congratulate them on getting so much traffic and tell them that in order to handle that level of traffic they'd need to step up to a higher package.

Our pricing is setup that we almost never have to worry about the resources being used though - so we haven't had to deal with that kind of issue yet.

My suggestion would be to put together what the client needs and worry less about bits and bytes when talking to them - say things like "Your site will have plenty of resources for starting out - but as you start to get more visitors, you may need to step up to a plan that can handle the traffic load you are getting"

ehh, I like HG as a company, but the quality of their environments have steadily been going downhill.

The problem you're going to run into with HG, is that they don't allow overselling. Now, don't take that as me saying sell 100GB disk space and ridiculous amounts of BW. The reason we allow overselling is so that you can actually get what you pay for.

You will most likely end up hitting the cap on their plan with the bandwidth. When we first got into web hosting (under another company, locally based) we used a HG reseller plan. It was probably the biggest mistake we made. We never came close to the disk space limit, in fact we only had roughly 10GB of space actually used. We hit the allocated limits and were forced to upgrade or find another provider. When you hit that cap, you won't be able to do anything...not even change plan sizes.

After that, we decided it was time to put our big boy pants on and start running our own environment. About a year after that we chose to open VopaHost.

One thing I despise about HG is the fact that they charge 15 bucks to provide you with a backup, and they only do a weekly backup at that.

This was a few years ago, so I'm not sure what their environment is like now. My advice though, if you want optimal performance & personal support, find a smaller provider.