Hmm, makes me wonder. www.compuwebnetsolutions.com have been offering web hosting for $0.878 per gigabyte bandwidth and $0.087 per MB of storage for a few years. We have cheaper plans but don't advertise them. As for reliability redundancy is rated at 99.999% our actual down time has been 3 hours in 3 years. I didn't realize we were running cheaper than the average hosting per storage. The cost is set for the monitoring, administrators, and overhead i.e.: power, Internet backbone connection, back ups, back-up power supplies. We have always included domain names and unlimited email with these accounts. If a client needs higher storage for database driven web pages, we will make then a deal to fit their needs at MUCH less than $1000/GB.
I agree that you should only give enough info as requested. Many times, I have seen other consultant friends as well as myself not retain a position through the final processes because to much information was given too fast. I have also seen those same clients not complete those projects or pay more than they should have because they felt they could retain all of those facts, and didn't or they tired to hire someone else to complete it after they realized they could not finish without my help. Most clients get an idea of how to save a buck by spending four. I also feel that to maintain ethics once hired to do a gig outline what step will be needed. However, keep it just that an outline, nothing more. This will give the client an idea of how many steps and a time line of completion and progress.
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Hmm, makes me wonder. www.compuwebnetsolutions.com have been offering web hosting for $0.878 per gigabyte bandwidth and $0.087 per MB of storage for a few years. We have cheaper plans but don't advertise them. As for reliability redundancy is rated at 99.999% our actual down time has been 3 hours in 3 years. I didn't realize we were running cheaper than the average hosting per storage. The cost is set for the monitoring, administrators, and overhead i.e.: power, Internet backbone connection, back ups, back-up power supplies. We have always included domain names and unlimited email with these accounts. If a client needs higher storage for database driven web pages, we will make then a deal to fit their needs at MUCH less than $1000/GB.
I agree that you should only give enough info as requested. Many times, I have seen other consultant friends as well as myself not retain a position through the final processes because to much information was given too fast. I have also seen those same clients not complete those projects or pay more than they should have because they felt they could retain all of those facts, and didn't or they tired to hire someone else to complete it after they realized they could not finish without my help. Most clients get an idea of how to save a buck by spending four. I also feel that to maintain ethics once hired to do a gig outline what step will be needed. However, keep it just that an outline, nothing more. This will give the client an idea of how many steps and a time line of completion and progress.