AM! b2evo Hosting Plans

11th Feb 2006 stk

I was approached today about what prices were to host a b2evolution blog with AstonishMe! It got me to thinking that we should come up with some sort of "b2evo hosting plan pricing schedule" and link to a special post from ads (no blinking animated GIFS pleas) within AM!

My initial thoughts ...

  1. Bare-bones hosting plan ... hosting at $$/month ... thanks, yer on yer own (assuming HH has a cPanel for customers to manage their accounts, set up email, ftp, etc.
  2. b2evo plan ... hosting at $$/month ... which includes (list of features), a current version b2evo install, membership to AM!
  3. Then add-ons:
    • $100+ for customizations to an existing skin
    • $250+ for completely new, totally custom skin to customer's desires
    • $50 for transferring an MT blog (contact us for others

This particular individual (contact pending), runs on blogger and apparently, hasn't been too happy since Google bought Blogger a couple of years ago. Anyway, she complains that her site loads slowly and was looking for a new blogging software package ... got turned on to b2evo and AM!

Thoughts?

 
 
 
 
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Anonymous
12th Feb 2006
I know we've discussed this, but here's a summary for the rest of you.

Until we can consider renting a dedicated linux box I think hosting should be put on the backburner. The main reasons for this are the lack of htaccess, clean urls and graphics abilities (in php, although I have a doozy of a .net one that will even resize an image to a desired filesize!).

Whilst we could happily offer this person some space on our current server, if they have their own domain name then they'd need to transfer it to teh new server if/when we get one ( if they just wanted a sub dom of astonish me then that wouldn't matter as I have control of the nameserver ).

I do think it's an area we should expand into, although we both know it'll never make a fortune the "added value" ability that it gives us will always look good.

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