Existing Customer VPS Specials

[Ijan]

Hello!

I'd like to organise some VPS (linux & Windows) specials for our customers and i would like to get your feedback in relation to them. I know it's nice to think about getting more for less but let's be fair as we have a business to run

So what would you like? Some ideas are, RAM upgrades, Bandwidth upgrades, discounts on IP's and discounts on backups. I am also working on a discount system for customers who have more multiple servers, let me know what you would like to see

[Craig]

My choice would be RAM upgrades.

I'm on a Win VPS 1024 plan, and while the 2GB RAM looks good in the 2048 plan, I don't wish to pay double the monthly price, seeing as I'm fine with the bandwidth/storage amount and number of cores in the 1024 plan.

[Ijan]

Originally Posted by Craig

My choice would be RAM upgrades.

I'm on a Win VPS 1024 plan, and while the 2GB RAM looks good in the 2048 plan, I don't wish to pay double the monthly price, seeing as I'm fine with the bandwidth/storage amount and number of cores in the 1024 plan.

Hey Craig,

Would you be happy paying 50% of the upgrade cost? In your case the total for a 2GB VPS would be $150/month.

[Craig]

Adding half of the difference between the 1024 and 2048 plans to my current total would be fine.

[Igneus]

I like the RAM upgrade at 50% cost too. It would make VPS's using java more affordable.

What about a similar deal for disk and/or bandwidth. You would probably assign a lower ratio since disk or bandwidth would scale a lot more efficiently than dedicated RAM. Or if you didn't go with % of cost, charge for 10G chunks.

I would also like to see bandwidth pooling across multiple VPSs. That would certainly make clusters much more cost effective.

[tomo89aus]

Originally Posted by Craig

My choice would be RAM upgrades.

I'm on a Win VPS 1024 plan, and while the 2GB RAM looks good in the 2048 plan, I don't wish to pay double the monthly price, seeing as I'm fine with the bandwidth/storage amount and number of cores in the 1024 plan.

I agree re: RAM upgrades but would prefer storage upgrades without the higher plans also.

I have clients who don't use a lot of processor power but have large storage requirements (e.g. email). This would also be good if you wanted to run another small server for cpanel backups but don't need the RAM and CPU of the higher plans.

As far as actual promotions go I don't know...your pricing is really very good...just inflexible.

[alex]

Pooled bandwidth amongst all VPS instances. So if I have 5 VPS instances with 1GB of data each, in reality I have 5GB of data to use across all machines - potentially 4GB on one VPS and 100MB on the other 4.

[danmandich]

I agree to this too. I am on a WinVPS with 1024 and would love to upgrade to 2048. Perhaps 60% upgrade cost for those who are on an annual plan

[tomo89aus]

Originally Posted by Igneus

I would also like to see bandwidth pooling across multiple VPSs. That would certainly make clusters much more cost effective.

Yes that would also be awesome.

[gnif]

Cheaper backups would be nice, especially for our main server we just commissioned.
It would also be nice if the backups were a LVM snapshot, instead of a tar.gz.

We have had great success with squashfs backups of a LVM snapshot, id be happy to lend a hand with this since squashfs needs a minor alteration as it has a 8bit uid/gid limit.