What do you think add more reseller accounts or move up to a VPS or Dedicated server, if you are just selling shared hosting?
At what point did you move to a VPS/Dedi from a reseller account?
Just some thoughts to get the discussions going.
It depends on your company growth if you are selling shared / reseller hosting and your profiting from that and you are comfortable with the stability of your company investing in innovation and growth then grow. If it is really time for someones company to grow deep inside they will know it because only they know the demand of their company. If your constantly selling loads and loads of shared / reseller hosting and you see clients maxing out resources then most likely its time for you to move up to VPS's lines.
When you upgrade to vps/dedicated server lines you don't have to invest much in them just enough to check the market or check the demand of your current clients. Come out with a vps line and send the promotional to your current clients if they take to it, to the plans your offering then you know the upgrade was over due +1 pat on the back for you. If your current clients aren't taking to it then advertise it other places or add it into your advertisement scheme. You don't have to spend thousands of dollars to upgrade to vps and dedicated lines of services.
If you are actually wondering if its time to upgrade your company feel free to pm me and we can consult about it.
Hope this help you out a bit cheers,
Cost of a Low Level Upgrade
128GB RAM, 8 Cores, 6 Drives server grab two of those for about $500-$700 bucks off ebay, colocate them in your facility or whatever company your using for colocation might be $100-$150/month to colocate them add IP another $100 bucks or just get your own network from lets say Cogent or someone 100Mbps lines start at about $300 monthly. Compile those servers into a cloud platform and sell cloud vps hosting you get great redundancy and a stable solution for under $600 reoccurring and under $1,500 to start the project. Just somewhat of a business plan if anyone reading this post was wondering why I said the upgrade wouldn't cost much to test the market.
