Hi Jim
You're in great hands with Steven and crew over at HTTPme, and they do have a special now that they'll double your bandwidth. Might want to check that out before thinking about moving over. Steven and myself are great mates, and talk daily, although we're both competing in the same market. He's a good guy.
Don't get me wrong, it's not like I don't want your business. Just thought I should point that out first.
(For anyone else reading this thread, I used to own HTTPme.com, but sold it in 2004, to build the family home)
Dotable's pricing is somewhat different to HTTPme's, as the HTTPme pricing I setup in 2002, so things have changed since back then. The Dotable model is much more efficient than the HTTPme model back in 2002, so the pricing reflects this change.
Also the market is much more competitive now, so that pushes down pricing, but servers, colo and bandwidth is also less than back then, so I think it's all pretty much relative.
One major efficiency now is that all Dotable servers are owned, and not leased. This is a major cost saving, considering the specs of the servers, and what it would cost to lease comparative servers. I was looking around seeing what some dedicated server companies are charging to rent the same servers we have here, and it's around the US$700/mth mark.
The current Dotable model would not be workable if we had to rent servers, as compared to owning the servers and colocating them etc.
Dotable offers personalised nameservers, yes. Your own nameservers and IPs. The usual deal there. Dotable offers live chat support and SSH access, and very soon (shhhh) client exec licences (in the next mth!) for all new and existing resellers, if they need one.
Sing out if you need anything else.