On 6/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:19:21 +0100, Aaron VanDerlip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zahid Malik wrote: >> >> Out of interest what would small-to-medium NGOs class as a reasonable >> price for Plone hosting services? > What I have found is that $30 -$50 US per month is what clients in this > space are willing to pay for shared type hosting. In addition to Plone > hosting, clients usually have the expectation of email services being > included in this price. This size of org usually does not need the > resources of a dedicated server. >Perhaps there is a niche here - NGO-only hosting, that has a few >pre-configured set-ups (e.g. Plone, Drupal, mail, etc, and backup and >other admin already set up) for a reasonable price? >Martin Yes, I think there's potential business model here. In my experience there are many smaller NGO's who would like to start working with Plone but are put off by the lack of affordable hosting. People like Zettai in the States seem to have done a reasonable job of packaging up a Plone hosting solution. But there's no one in the UK as far as I know doing this kind of thing yet.
This is something that we might be interested in setting-up. We have a couple of racks in London (in separate data-centres) and one in Prague. We really only do higher-end hosting for our clients but it might be worth exploring this niche. If people have more ideas on what they would like to have in a package then please let us know. -- Dr Zahid Malik FRY-IT Limited 503 Enterprise House 1/2 Hatfields London SE1 9PG Tel: 0870 760 7634 Fax: 0709 200 0450 Web: http://www.fry-it.com _______________________________________________ NGO mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo
