joombyte
Hello all,

I just want to throw out this question to all you guys and hopefully get a few responses from Sammie, CyberXing, and Dawg. This applies to other individuals as well who runs dedicated servesr that caters to Dolphin clients.

Like some of you, we are a small but aggressive growing hosting business with multiple servers and techs working for us 24/7. Given the competitiveness of the hosting business, paying $100.00 per referral and on-going commissions to Boonex seems unviable.

When see more it's all said and done, where is the profit? Given the high cost dedicated server and tech support staffs, I think this hosting tender is a little out of reach for small growing hosting outfit.

Unless you charge 19.95 per month (prepaid annually), then you will be able to afford to pay Boonex the $100 commission and still make a decent profit.

If you want to stay competitive, $7.95 per month seems to be the average price most hosting companies charge. If you do that, you will be giving Boonex all your profit upfront (95.40! actually now, you are 5 bucks in the hole)

When the next year rolls around, you will be forking out more money to Boonex for on-going commissions to them. Although, "on-going" commission is still not defined on this hosting tender.

Your thoughts?
DosDawg
joombyte,
just want to touch on one thing here, regardless of what boonex is asking as a referral fee, and a continual % commission, there is something i think you are mistaken about. there are absolutely no dolphin hosting packages being offered for $7.95, yes there is some advertisement that would lead you to believe they are offering hosting for $7.95, but if you dig into that, which i have and have transcripts from both of those hosting providers flying their banners with a price advert on it, see more you will find, that you are required to purchase a dedicated server minimum $139.00. do some research bud, and get back to me. if you find one person who is hosting dolphin for $7.95 they are an idiot, and have no clue what they are doing. the other thing you need to consider, there are those on here who purchased this script for $998.00, do you really think they want $7.95 hosting for that script. very doubtful. i have found even the ones who are running the paid license, the one year adfree, they are not looking for $7.95 hosting.so please do your homework, not just about hosting dolphin, but hosting in general, think about what you are offering, and dont offer stupid packages like unlimited everything, be anybody who is smart enough to spend $998.00 on a script, is smart enough to understand there is a limit to everything.

so not trying to tell you how to run your business, just giving you some information from lessons learned, as i have been doing this since 2001, and nothing has changed, if anything its gotten nastier with everybody and his dog trying to host websites, and be so called "webmasters". just look around at what reality is bud.

later,
DosDawg
joombyte
I am referring in line to this - http://www.boonex.com/hosting/

Given the fact that Boonex are referring people to these hosting outfit, my question is how are smaller hosting business able to compete.
DosDawg
and i am telling you that i investigated all of those, and there is no hosting for $7.95, those are lead in adverts, have nothing to do with dolphin hosting. i suggest you propose your affiliates package to boonex, as i am sure they will understand we are the smaller guys, and where these three to five hosts can make the $100.00 initial payment, its unlikely they will be around for long. lyubov assures me that when the community votes, only one preferred hosting provider will remain on that page. see more now i am not stepping on ya toes or anything here joombyte, but its my intention on being the one left on that page. :D

regards,
DosDawg
 
 
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