Hi,

how do you count your expenses and income for running a server for hosting reselling, how to determine right shared webhosting price when reselling server resources?


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I did this example calculation:

Example, server with 2TB harddisk, Xeon E3 8x3,4ghz, 32GB RAM, 200mbit/s line, max. 5000GB monthly transfer, 10 IPs - $230 price + $200 profit would be good right?


Average client:
2 GB disk (1950/2=975 clients per server)
10GB data transfer/mo. (5000/10=500 clients per server)
32MB RAM at a time (30GB/32MB=937.5 clients per server)


i need to require $0.2 per GB of disk space when 2TB disk server cost $200 + $200 profit (400 / 1 950 000 ) we count 50GB is used for OS partition and similar.


500 clients x $0.4 (price if every client has 2GB disk) = $200 income - covers server costs, but we dont make money for our work. We need $200 profit even when server is 50% full.
500 clients x $0,8 = $400 income - thats like when server is 100% full (500 clients)
250 clients x $0,8 = $200 income - 50% full server, every client paying $0,8 per package
250 clients x $1,6 = $400 income, $200 paid for server, $50 paid for cpanel,cloudlinux, $15 paid for billing system WHMCS


$135 profit remaining (2700czk)




If one needs to hire a support staff, do regular offserver backups, price goes way higher, one may need to require


even three times more money. From:


2 GB disk
10GB data transfer/mo.
32MB RAM at a time
250 clients x $1,6 = $400 income, $135 profit


to:


2 GB disk
10GB data transfer/mo.
32MB RAM at a time
250 clients x $4,8 = $1200 income, $935 profit (200+65 server only expenses), then we need to substract expenses for offserver backups, support staff, office equipment, water, electricity