: How should I offer hosting to my clients? I'm starting a little web development company mainly using rails, but we've also got clients with existing joomla and php code. How do people generally

@Sue5673885

I will often split these costs up or else use an affiliate program with your preferred host. Hosting tends to come at a monthly, quarterly or yearly fee.

One method is to lease a dedicated server from a hosting company and set it up the same way many hosts do to provide multiple virtual servers. Fee should be more-or-less based on what percentage of system resources and bandwidth each client is going to consume.

For example, if Client A needs 50% of your server and Clients B, C, D, E, F and G each need 10% then you need to be able to recuperate most of your leasing fees from Client A to pay for your dedicated server.

If you do this it is often simply a matter of running multiple websites from one host and sectioning each of them off.

Sometimes they can however easily share various resources. You don't really need to have 6 instances of MySQL running for instance and you can have a control panel which understands which user is logged in.

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