 | View Full Version : Dedicated Free within 24 Months? indaloman 02-01-2002, 06:50 PM Dedicated 800Mhz 128Ram now $80 per month, no setup, 200 GB Transfer , I think two years from now we will be at $0 set up and $0 per month. and price per gig in two years $.10 or free? is web hosting a business of the future? smullen 02-02-2002, 06:06 AM who offers 200gb for $80/mth ? Jackmaninov 02-02-2002, 06:27 PM Rackshack offers 300GB for $99/month, so 200Gb for $80/month doesn't seem TOO outrageous. However, how is a company supposed to offer servers for $0 setup and $0/month? Where is the revenue? Banner Ads? George 02-03-2002, 04:17 AM Originally posted by Jackmaninov Rackshack offers 300GB for $99/month, so 200Gb for $80/month doesn't seem TOO outrageous. However, how is a company supposed to offer servers for $0 setup and $0/month? Where is the revenue? Banner Ads? I think the point indaloman was trying to make is that prices are dropping so low and so quickly that they will reach nearly zero. I saw another post today where someone had a very different idea on this subject and that was that in 2 years or so the low end hosts(by which I mean the $1.99 hosting for 500mb and 10gb bw) will be gone and hosting would become a purer business. The thing is you do get what you pay for. If you get a p3 933mhz 256mb RAM dedicated server for $50 a month and it is down 20 hours a week, well, you really can't complain, you should expect things like that are going to happen (if it is a special to get clients in that is a different story) optix 02-03-2002, 02:19 PM Where can I signup for this $80/mo deal? I would pay and have it setup tonight! Mark Chicken 02-03-2002, 02:38 PM I think he was referring to this thread: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33233 -though there are a couple of sub-$100 either dedicated or VPS offers in the http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=4 forum TedS 02-03-2002, 07:37 PM While prices may be getting cheaper, the idea of a free or 10 cent service is a bit out of the question. Companies like rackshack deal on HUGE volume and build servers for very cheap but there is still a cost for hardware, bandwidth, staff, etc.... which will never go away completely. Sebulba 02-04-2002, 02:40 AM Originally posted by Chicken I think he was referring to this thread: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33233 -though there are a couple of sub-$100 either dedicated or VPS offers in the http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=4 forum What is a VPS? I have seen VDS but what is VPS?:confused: optix 02-05-2002, 03:17 PM yeah what is VPS? allan 02-05-2002, 03:53 PM VPS=Virtual Private Server optix 02-05-2002, 04:02 PM which is what? allan 02-05-2002, 04:09 PM Originally posted by optix which is what? Something that a 2 second search on Google will give you the answer to. A Virtual Private Server is a "partition" on a dedicated server. So, a web host takes a big server, divides it into 4 or 5 parts and doles each part out as a VPS. You run your own instance of all software (your own Apache, Sendmail, etc) and have complete control over your partition, but you do not have to pay the hefty price that a dedicated server normally runs. palmtree 02-05-2002, 04:16 PM Good article that explains VPS: http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/showarticle.asp?id=484 laterz, dennis optix 02-06-2002, 12:59 AM Hmmm. I see. Where is the best place for one of these? palmtree 02-06-2002, 01:41 PM I would have to recommend http://www.remarkablehosting.com Matt is the one who wrote the article. laterz.. Akash 02-07-2002, 09:34 PM is there a difference then between vps and vds? palmtree 02-08-2002, 03:01 AM All in all, no, there is no difference. Just different acronyms. laterz. |