Using Service Plans to create sites

The control panel provides tools to quickly and easily define and deploy Service Plans. Service Plans represent a bundle of services and resources, such as disk space, that you can sell to resellers and site owners. Based on the specific service plan configurations you choose, the control panel deploys the necessary services and enforces the limits you choose for the site when you create it.

If you intend to create multiple sites, before creating the sites, you might want to first create Service Plan templates. Each template can include different configurations that satisfy different business requirements. You can create as many Service Plan templates as you want. You can also set one of the Service Plan templates as the default plan used for new sites.

- Note: These templates are not required to create a site; however, they can make creating multiple sites easier and faster.

Even if you create a site with a Service Plan, you can later modify the Service Plan for that specific site to customize it for your customer's requirements.

Before you define a Service Plan, it would be helpful to understand your customers' requirements and see what competitors are offering. You will want to put together an offer that is compelling to your target customers. There are a number of features that your customers will consider required, such as disk space and bandwidth. You also have the opportunity to differentiate your Service Plans by adding additional services.

If you are using the control panel primarily to host internal sites, defining Service Plans can ensure you allocate resources appropriately, as well as delegate appropriate control to your internal customers.

You can create Service Plans using the Site Manager.

# Examples of Service Plans

Following are the examples of some service plans you can create and sell to your customers. Use the control panel to create, manage, and remove these accounts.

## Business Service Plans

Listed below (in order of complexity) are some examples of business Service Plans.

- Gold

  ### Account features

  - 125 MB of Web space

  - 25 email accounts

  - Unmetered bandwidth, meaning site owners will not be billed for usage

  - Dedicated IP address

  ### Target customer

  - Anyone who is just starting out on the Internet

  - Anyone who does not need database or multimedia features

  - Any small business looking to launch its first Web site

  - Any family or individual wanting to display their Web site

- Platinum

  ### Account features

  - 300 MB of Web space

  - 100 email accounts

  - Unmeasured bandwidth, meaning site owners will not be billed for usage

  - Dedicated IP address—one MySQL database

  - Database access

  - Multiple scripting language support (PHP4, SSI, Python, Perl, JSP—pre-built CGI script support

  ### Target customer

  - Anyone who has a large personal or business Web site requiring a lot of Web space

  - Anyone who needs a site with MySQL, media streaming, and/or SSL support

  - Anyone who needs the reassurance that they will not quickly outgrow their hosting solution

- Titanium

  ### Account features

  - 500 MB space

  - 200 email accounts

  - 10GB measured bandwidth

  - Manage multiple Web sites under one account—host 5 domains

  - PHP4, SSI, Python, Perl, JSP

  - MySQL database

  ### Target customer

  - Anyone who has multiple Web sites they wish to host under one account

  - Anyone who needs a way to centrally manage multiple Web sites

  - Anyone who wants to consolidate existing Web hosting accounts into one low-cost option

- Diamond

  ### Account features

  - 2 GB space

  - Unlimited email accounts

  - 20 GB measured bandwidth

  - Unlimited domains

  - PHP4, SSI, Python, Perl, JSP

  - ASP, Tomcat JSP

  - MySQL database

  ### Target customer

  - Anyone who wants all the benefits of a dedicated server, but on a budget

  - Anyone with a large Web site that needs a maximum amount of storage

  - Anyone who runs resource demanding scripts