Will this offer come to light this year? If so I think it will blow every dedicated hosting company away... Seriously, imagine how many people would want it.. Dedicated providers, I think its time you think about this tip :)

LOL, I'm betting anytime soon...

$99 servers with hundreds of gb's of bandwidth are becoming "the norm."

It's insane...

id go for it
lol

This would be a financial nightmare. It would mean a total devastation/minimazation of invested capitals to a reate of over 80% and would surely bankrupt the whole scene.

hey, you think thats bad! imagine it being NO SETUP FEE! haha even worse

Just remember that IT CAN be done. I believe some big company with a huge cash flow could pull this off. Remember, everyone go back and read the offers on WHT 2 years ago. There was nothing of the sort.. Who ever heard of 100GB deals? Remember the old days of 50GB transfer for $500/mo...

A few more years and we'll all have servers pulling a terrabyte of data for $99/mo. Wow, that will be the day when I no longer need a local HD!! I'll just boot from my REMOTE server. Or whack on 5000 sites per server.

Originally posted by universal2001
Will this offer come to light this year?

No, not this year. But maybe in the not-too-distant future.

With dual Xeons in there, I expect two full chains of Cheetahs as well.

Right...you go ahead and buy that. Just don't complain when you get no support and the company you bought it from goes bankrupt.

I'll offer that .... there is only one catch.... 100% downtime of server is guaranteed... we guarantee that you will actually get a 1Ghz duron.. and that the multihomed bandwidth is actually cogent only capped at 128kbps....

Any takers :idea: :nuts:

Ok , now seriously....:D

Yes it will be available for $99/mo ... when its low-end spec :stickout

Lol, $99 with 100s gb x-fer are becoming the norm - err.... no they aren't, maybe in this forum they are and the limit part of the industry it exposes people too, but in the industry as a whole they are not becoming the norm.

Originally posted by no1v2
Right...you go ahead and buy that. Just don't complain when you get no support and the company you bought it from goes bankrupt.


...yep

i think i could pull it off... lol... that hardware costs roughly the same as the hardware i m gonna use... heh... o wait... not roughly the same... maybe a bit more... but not by much... but my stuff i financing off over a years term... that hardware might have a bit longer shelf life, making the monthly payments more affordable... heh

Originally posted by netdude
i think i could pull it off... lol... that hardware costs roughly the same as the hardware i m gonna use... heh... o wait... not roughly the same... maybe a bit more... but not by much... but my stuff i financing off over a years term... that hardware might have a bit longer shelf life, making the monthly payments more affordable... heh

k great.

i sayin' that to imply that... if anybody would just sit down and research providers carefully enough (to find one thats cheap but quality multihomed bandwidth)... and write up a solid airtight business plan... and approach some hardware vendors with big pockets, i am sure they could get the financing just because the business is buying their hardware... heh... so the hardware vendor wins at 2 levels: 1) if they company succeeds, the vendor gets to cash in their equity stake one way or another... 2) as the company grows (with profitability or not), they get sales... plain and simple...

Netdude, you kill me. I wish you luck on your trip to Wally World. I really do. But I will love to see if we see you around these parts in a year. :)

I'm convinced that it'll just be a few months before some place has a box with a Gigabit connection. RackShack has like 5.2 Gbps, so if you bought their "special" Gigabit connection, you could theoretically acutally push close to that.

Of course, in actuality, this would just make for a bigger mess... I doubt that many dedicated servers can even pull down 100 Mbps, so a Gigabit card would be a complete waste of money, but with the massive overselling that goes on, I'm convinced someone will try it.

800GB for $99/Month, hmm doing the math it seems possible, but i wouldn't expect good connections, and not that much Tech Support.

Netdue you missed 3) The ocmpany goes bankrupt owning the hardware vendor lots of money, the hardware vendor cries and wonders why they ever thought it would work in the first place.

It's a fact, you can't provide decent x-fer for $0.12 per Gb, rackshack only get away with it because most people use nowhere near the 300/400Gb. Then of course their are staff costs, rack space, if you're running your own DC then there are costs for electricity, maintenance of air con, generators, UPS, etc. etc.

KDAWebServices, love the post count, 666... heh...

but... response to that 3rd one... 3) hardware vendor's failed investment is a tax write off, but they still received the benefit of the sales generated by hosting company's purchases... so what happened in the end? vendor ended up in the black from a failed investment... heh

why do you think cisco invested in cogent? has nothing to do with cisco's faith in cogent's success... cisco wins either way... doesn't work the same way for venture capital firms/etc... heh

these forums are entertaining at times

I must say that I find netdude's world domination plans amusing too :rolleyes: ;)

Originally posted by UmBillyCord
Netdude, you kill me. I wish you luck on your trip to Wally World. I really do. But I will love to see if we see you around these parts in a year. :)
:D Always good value watching UBC in action. :)

Ok netdude...sounds like you got a plan there...but whatever you do...please stop writing like this...thanks...

:o

who said i went to UBC...? :)

*the world will be mine... mine i tell u*

can 2gb handle 800gb

sure, such a server could handle much more!

Depends what types of sites it's serving.

Only the norm here on WHT not in the "real world" there is a difference. :)

Originally posted by citrus
LOL, I'm betting anytime soon...

$99 servers with hundreds of gb's of bandwidth are becoming "the norm."

It's insane...

My point exactly Jay.

Well 800 gb is only like 3mbp/s

what I dont' understand I why would anybody wish to invest even 1K on a server to make the same profit on it that others make on a 9.99 /mo shared account (and their invgestiment was pennies per account)

I mean, not even Wal-Mart does that :D

Walmart does worse :D

Originally posted by CRego3D
what I dont' understand I why would anybody wish to invest even 1K on a server to make the same profit on it that others make on a 9.99 /mo shared account (and their invgestiment was pennies per account)

I mean, not even Wal-Mart does that :D

Originally posted by universal2001
Will this offer come to light this year? If so I think it will blow every dedicated hosting company away... Seriously, imagine how many people would want it.. Dedicated providers, I think its time you think about this tip :)

Sounds good. Don't forget this part of the equasion...

Sell them by the truck load. Set them up by installing from a disk image. Don't allow any customisation - what you see is what you get. Hire lots of clue-less tech support monkeys that can't do anything except reboot or restore. Never admit that there could be a problem with the cheap mobo, hdd or RAM you use, because testing hardware takes too much time (and ppl who know wtf they are doing). Remember the mantra that the customer is always wrong - that is a good cost cutting culture to have in your organisiation - saves you having to take responsibility for anything. Oh, and make sure your billing department is 100% ruthless, close any account (and whipe the HDD and resell the server) without investigating - even if the problem/misunderstanding may be with you not with the customer.

:)

I remember someone had a business plan to give free PCs aways and was 100% that it was going to work. Too bad nobody could convince him it won't =/