Re: $35.00 a month MV hosting service, RE: Inexpensive ISP

[cfm@maine.com]

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We offer minivend as part of an overall integrated publishing
package that **starts** at approx $150 a month or is negotiated 
on an annual basis.  It includes quite a bit more than minivend:
flavors of SQL, our page builders, registered users, profiled
email lists, tie in to off-site gateway boxes, and soon 
even linux POS.  It includes maintenance of same.  Of late 
we've added regular "development/marketing" meetings with 
clients pushing the 'Net.  Consequently our business is 
increasingly local, say 1.5 hrs drive max because we do lots
of hands on.

I'd guess one might provide shell accounts capable of running 
minivend for $20-$35 a month with some limits to protect abuse.
That could not include maintenance or upgrades to new versions 
or any `support'.  We have, however, decided to go the full 
service route instead; that's just our business model. Over
the past couple of years the do-it-yourself clients who would
be interested have either asked us to take over their sites 
or have moved on to the inexpensive web-hosting farms.

$.02

cfm



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> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Thompson-Jordan wrote:
> 
> > ******    message to minivend-users from "Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>     ******
> > 
> > I used Altavista to search for "minivend" and there were no ISPs advertising
> > Minivend that came up as hits. 
> 
> hmm, watching MV grow, I always wondered about why so many people 
> are using and downloading MV and so few gave openly credit to the
> free package they are using and even less were announcing they
> offer the package as part of their hosting services on their
> server.
> 
> I am even more amazed to watch the world of virtual ISPs and web
> designers being quite generous to themselves in using a no-cost 
> software package, but being so greedy to not even consider a 
> hosting service for more than $35.00 a month and certainly at the 
> same time asking for a nice hourly consultant fee for building
> something with that no-cost package (AND asking a lot of questions
> about how to do that here at the same time).
> 
> Apparently, you all consider using and offering MV to your
> customer as a means of an income, on the other hand you can't
> even invest into an adequately priced hosting service, although
> by now every one knows how crucial it is to set up MV on your
> server correctly.
> 
> How often do you sit down with a friend and a pizza and a beer
> for $35.00 ?
> 
> Really strange ... 
> 
> And to the guy who throws around scare tactics about how much
> CPU time MV could take, believe me, others know how much it takes,
> and because of that they might be worth more than a couple of
> meager dollars. 
> 
> Not meant to be a personal attack to anyone, just a viewpoint 
> from someone who apparently "is not getting it".
> 
> Birgitt Funk
> 
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