[bitfolk] Mass (50+ domains) DNS hosting at BitFolk

Hi Ian, On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 08:19:25PM +0000, Ian wrote: Do you mean two VPSes at BitFolk? If so, can you explain a bit more? Just trying to understand your needs here. There's currently one customer who has just over 50 domains on the BitFolk secondary service, and I haven't yet contacted them to see what they want to do about it because: a) I haven't thought too much about what to charge for "above 50", and; b) Before charging I would like to have a better web interface in place so that customers can add, remove and disable domains without having to submit support tickets. So I have let them languish at just above 50 and will continue to do so until I have more of an idea. I haven't got rid of the 50 limit because I do still think there needs to be some sort of limit. The next person down the list by domain count is somewhere around 20 so it hasn't been a pressing issue. I should probably have realised though that there might be more of you who were just put off by there seeming to be nowhere to go. How many domains do you have? What would you consider a fair price for DNS hosting for them? Are there missing features that you feel would need to be implemented before BitFolk could actually charge for the >50 case? I want to focus on doing DNS hosting for existing customers only, which means they have the ability to run their own master DNS server(s)¹. I don't want to get into hosting DNS with a web interface to manipulate zone content. I want to provide the DNS servers and monitoring of them, and basically any other assistance you can think of that enables you to run your own stuff. I appreciate that for a lot of people with a large number of domains the question may still be, "why would I pay BitFolk when there are companies out there that will provide secondary DNS for free?"² That's fine - what I'm trying to do is provide some nameservers for people who don't have them, and monitoring to go with it that is as comprehensive as possible. If that's not of interest then no worries. Also, I know that when it comes to paying, there are companies that will sell you DNS hosting, and their infrastructure will be a lot bigger and more resilient than BitFolk's. That's also OK - maybe one day I can compete with them on that score, but right now I am still trying to cater to the hobbyist and small business and hope to come in at a lower price than these services. But if you or anyone else does have interest in putting more than 50 domains on BitFolk's servers, what sort of pricing and other things would you like to see? As far as pricing goes, OK let's start. What about first 50 domains per VPS for free (as it is now), then every block of 50 domains after that is £0.99+VAT per month or £9.99+VAT per year? And I make the add/remove/disable/enable thing work first. Cheers, Andy ¹ Having a VPS gives the technical basis, but I don't mind taking an AXFR from anywhere. ² I don't actually know any, but I assume there are plenty. I don't mind if people want to suggest some. -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting