Since webhosting costs and rates are dropping fast, I was wondering what they would be in about a year or so?

Thanx for reading! :D

In a year......
You'll see reliable 1TB/400GB SHARED accounts (diskspace/bandwidth) for a low low cost of $39.95....

that'd be my wish...:D

hey I thought there was someone already offering that in the special offers forum.

really? where?

Companies in for the long haul will keep their prices pretty steady at $19.99/month. Startups and small one/two man companies will come and go with the low cost plans. All plans will have an increase of space, bandwidth, cpu cycles, etc.

-Mike

Below10host, my host, will continue to diversify their plans...

Overall costs for most hosts will drop marginally.

Interesting...............................

Aww come on Planet Host, your name is planet host with no picture of any planet on it;)

Get a new flash design with earth spinning around with a satellite around it:)

Our US based plans haven't changed in 7 months. I really can't see them changing in the next 12.

Cheers

Gary

wow...just a few MB short and about 100GB short in bandwidth, but this guy says some company is offering 300GB for just $50/month...pretty close to what i described

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115653

note: thread smells of spam so may be deleted soon...

Originally posted by sHosts
Aww come on Planet Host, your name is planet host with no picture of any planet on it;)

Get a new flash design with earth spinning around with a satellite around it:)


Thanks for the good idea, sHosts! I was thinking of flash while I was making the websitem but when it was done, i remembered that i had forgotten about flash! It sounds dumb but its the truth! lol,,, although im not good in flash at all, i will try to make something out of it after! Thanks anyways :D

Originally posted by akash
wow...just a few MB short and about 100GB short in bandwidth, but this guy says some company is offering 300GB for just $50/month...pretty close to what i described

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115653

note: thread smells of spam so may be deleted soon...


Thanks for the link and the heads up! appreciated.

No plans to drop prices here. Although hardware/bandwidth costs *may* *sometimes* decrease, that doesn't mean human/staff costs will which is where good support, etc comes from.

Originally posted by akash
wow...just a few MB short and about 100GB short in bandwidth, but this guy says some company is offering 300GB for just $50/month...pretty close to what i described

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115653

note: thread smells of spam so may be deleted soon...

Yea, kinda smelly isn't it

I think the prices will drop but at the sometime demands go up and then better and cheaper technology will be invented and at the end everything will be fine. Same as always!

I predict prices will go up. :D

go up? do you have a reason for that too?

Ya. Economy will improve, cheap hosts will die out, more demand for web hosting, companies learn from this and is more willing to go with the higher priced ones, those stung by the dotcom is back and need hosting, and most importantly.................. I am dreaming :D j/k

I wish ;)

This is whats gone happen to us by our clients when they find that out!

Client ____ Host

:uzi: ____ :bawling:

OK>>>>>>>>THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS POST


WHEN WILL THE SMALL COMAPNIES RUN OUT OF BUSINESS SO THE LARGER COMPANIES WOULD TAKE OVER (AS THE PRICES DROP OBVIOUSLY) ?

THIS HAPPENS EVERYWHERE AND ITS JUST SAD!

Greetings:

"Since webhosting costs and rates are dropping fast, I was wondering what they would be in about a year or so?"

Really? Or do you mean that companies have not learned that competing on price only hurts consumers, themselves, and the industry?

Thank you.

It depends which market you're marketing into. The hosting market is too segmentated for anyone to draw uniform pricing etc. Market locally and you'll get heaps more for your plans that if you were marketing in the ad_forum here. It just comes down to where you fish. :)

Originally posted by dynamicnet
Really? Or do you mean that companies have not learned that competing on price only hurts consumers, themselves, and the industry?
Do you mean -
"Or do you mean that companies have not learned that competing on price, only hurts consumers, themselves, and the industry?"
or -
"Or do you mean that companies have not learned that competing on price only, hurts consumers, themselves, and the industry?"
I added the commas into your statement. The position of that comma, clarfies the meaning of what you're trying to say.

I would agree with the second statement. :)

Greeings Aussie Bob:

I just double checked, and the way I wrote it is what I meant.

Thank you.

Originally posted by dynamicnet
Greeings Aussie Bob:

I just double checked, and the way I wrote it is what I meant.

Thank you.
I still think you're missing a comma there. :)

But I agree that hosts who compete on price only, are going to find business all the more difficult.

Originally posted by dynamicnet
Really? Or do you mean that companies have not learned that competing on price only hurts consumers, themselves, and the industry?
The statement is correct and I agree with it. I guess what Aussie Bob wanted to know is if 'only' can be replaced with 'alone'. :)

The cheap hosts will die out once they see they can't sustain their business (or they'll increase prices). The hosts who stick to their guns and don't compete on price alone will last longer. Some of the offers made in the requests forum make me laugh.

This market is far too diversified, fragmented, and out-of-control to anticipate any stability. There are no players so large as to dominate and dictate pricing or offerings.

Therefore, my prediction is that, just like today, you will continue to have hosts offering 200MB/20GB plans for $20/year and others offering 50MB/2GB plans for $29.95 per month.

Here on WHT we get a very distorted view of the market. You can add up every host who participates here and you still have only a very small percentage (almost miniscule) of the market. Truly, the market is not now, nor ever will be the $3.99 per month or $25 per year plans. While these may provide an income for a person or family, they cannot justify themselves within a large host who has significant overhead costs. Unfortunately, Interland has more impact on the market than we do. C I has more impact than most of us. Yahoo has more impact than us. As much as I love WHT, you must study and research beyond WHT to have a real grasp of the industry.

Interesting to look at another thread which discusses sign-ups per day. Most hosts here would be happy with 5 per day. Almost all hosts here would be ecstatic with 100/day. However, Verio has over 200/day (as posted there although I believe that number may actually be low). That is over 70,000 per year. Interland's sales are over $100 million annually.

Will there be shakeup and fallout? Yes! Absolutely! The turnover of hosts as the low end is huge. Likewise, some of the very large hosts (such as Interland) are struggling to achieve any reasonable level of profitability. And, our providers....all the telecoms who we use are losing money, lowering prices, and losing more. How long can that continue? I believe colo and dedicated pricing will compress toward the middle somewhat whenever a reasonable pricing structure reaches the telecoms. The low end data centers will gradually raise prices. At the same time, the high priced centers will gradually lower prices to remain competitive. That may actually work to the benefit of all of us as it will reduce the extremes of price versus quality. As the lower end raise prices, they will be able to improve the services and support. The upper end will lower prices without compromising service. Therefore, there will be a strong middle group, competing more on service and quality than price. Will this happen in the next year? I think probably not. In the next five? Probably.

Thanks for the big speech Incognito, apperciated!

Reseller accounts with Dedi features :-)

Thanks for the big speech Incognito, apperciated! Just we get confused sometimes. What we see here is just a very narrow piece of the overall hosting market.

Example Below:

Verio 10MB/1GB account $50 setup, $24.95/mo
Interland 250MB/10GB account $49.95 setup, $19.95/mo

WHT Offers 250MB/10GB $0 setup, $5.95/mo
WHT Offers 100MB/3GB $0 setup, $2.50/mo
WHT Offers 200MB/3GB $0 setup, $2.00/mo

Thats interesting, very smart too!