How much should I charge for this hosting job?

I'm going to host a 450K flash file on my server that will be linked from an email that will be sent out to about 20,000-30,000 email addresses. All going to alums of a university, so I expect the majority of people to click on the link.

It would get pounded for the first few days as the mailing is sent out - and then less and less. I will host the file for a year and will stagger the cost as the months go by.

My server is setup up for 1024 concurrent connections. Also have 25 other low traffic sites on the server.

Even at the busiest time my server did not exceed 2MBps (not close to the limit of my 10MBps port)

Was just looking for a ballpark figure to throw at them.

god...
That many emails? Thats definately gonna lag your server. I would suggest a virtual private server to them if not a dedicated server if you dont want your server to be lagged up.....

OR.. Charge them a lot. I'd charge them $19.99/month after the massive bandwith usage!

I've been assured by my hosting service that if I up my RAM to 1024MB and allow for 1024 concurrent connections, things should be ok.

Thanks for the reply.

I would suggest not doing it, by the sounds of it your going to be spamming

as long as the emails werent all sent at the same time, it wouldnt be a big deal.. like if you staggered the sending over a few days... Then your server wouldnt be pounded all at once. I can tell you that our free picture hosting gallery (gallery.cybertarp.com) gets pounded non-stop just doing small image hosting.

I wonder if you couldn't charge them a flat monthly and extra for excessive bandwidth. If you want to keep them as a customer in the future and possibly let you put a small advert in the emails and the flash you do well to do the first one for nothing.

If one tenth of one percent of those emails signed up for hosting you'd be money ahead.

"1024MB and allow for 1024 concurrent connections"

hehe i dont know who told you this, but I dont think that would be wise. 1000+ connections on a server with 1GB of ram is definately going to lag your server a bit because it will start to use swap memory.

Honestly, I wouldn't try it.