Offering hosting for 1 cent for the first month

We actually considered doing this before, however the conclusion was that there was just too much potential for spammers to enter the network. Moreover, there is a high chance that in the subsequent month, the client would simply cancel his account and this would have simply risked the quality of our network for other existing clients for no purpose at all.
 
I seen allot of hosts do that and their out term was always spam, spam, and spam. For me i did it for dedicated servers, but i blocked SMPT for the first month for verification issues. It was pretty successful. Spammers are so eager though that i did have customer wait couple months to spam.
 
I firmly believe that customers nowadays, the real ones, do not look for cheap hosting packages, they just need a solid home to found their ventures online. Instead of lowering the monthly hosting price tags, which may sometimes seem rather odd, try offering better, more solid web hosting products to your clients who will turn into loyal customers in the future, think long term and work on uptime.

If you sell a hosting shared hosting product for twenty dollars a month but works like a charm for companies, many of them spending thousands on their monthly advertising campaigns, you will manage to establish a brand, or a solid memorable name among them, and they will spread the word about your business soon. Offering hosting for cents is like shouting to everyone not to buy services.
 
All serious players know good hosting cannot be free by definition. Customers do not seek low prices, they seek stability and good service and are ready to pay a considerable price for this. They understand you should also have profit, so choosing the right price (sufficient to pay your expenses yet not too high, affordable for your clients) is the key.

Would you buy a log of bread for 1 cent? I would not...
 
I tried some cheap hosting rates for marketing in the past.
I did get some signups from it. But very few stayed. There was no complaints, but they knew the time was up and they would have to pay the regular rates.

They usually only stay until the regular rates kick back in.
 
I feel as if this would attract a whole lot of "noobs" that think they are getting a great deal paying 1 penny for a month and then not being able to afford the pay after the first month. You would lose a whole lot of money that way too. A discount isn't a bad idea, but a 99% discount is a bad idea.
 
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