javierkatana
08-27-2008, 07:17 AM
I´m not saying that hosting 300 shared accounts in a server represent bad business model today, there are still 2 to 4 years to cash in from it and totally agree it’s a good strategy for long term medium/big players due to its cost effectiveness, but for startups?.
The shared account it’s a trend pushed by the industry to promote bandwidth and HD space wars, were little ones can´t compete; these 2 things we know 90% of the clients will never fully use, while not telling them that with just 30 simultaneous users posting in their forum or cms (300 online), will flag CPU/MEM usage alerts.
This is when the host wins with the TOS, but the client starts doing the “______sucks” at Google, because the client feels ripped off even if there´s no legal right to feel that way. In other markets with mature mainstream clients, this would be called “Dubious marketing”.
Something I like to call, “Server Account Density” will become the next sale factor, when clients start asking how many accounts are hosted per server; host providers with low S.A.D. ratios will capitalize on fairness and openness (Starting with an understandable TOS). Then, VPS accounts will become the standard, due to their advantage for controlling and distributing server resources, unlike shared accounts were 1 user can quite easily hog the server.
Well known companies for their shared account services and higher S.A.D. ratios will have to invest lots of money in servers to lower the densities, while maintaining the shared account system, but still avoiding the VPS licensing cost issues.
The shared account it’s a trend pushed by the industry to promote bandwidth and HD space wars, were little ones can´t compete; these 2 things we know 90% of the clients will never fully use, while not telling them that with just 30 simultaneous users posting in their forum or cms (300 online), will flag CPU/MEM usage alerts.
This is when the host wins with the TOS, but the client starts doing the “______sucks” at Google, because the client feels ripped off even if there´s no legal right to feel that way. In other markets with mature mainstream clients, this would be called “Dubious marketing”.
Something I like to call, “Server Account Density” will become the next sale factor, when clients start asking how many accounts are hosted per server; host providers with low S.A.D. ratios will capitalize on fairness and openness (Starting with an understandable TOS). Then, VPS accounts will become the standard, due to their advantage for controlling and distributing server resources, unlike shared accounts were 1 user can quite easily hog the server.
Well known companies for their shared account services and higher S.A.D. ratios will have to invest lots of money in servers to lower the densities, while maintaining the shared account system, but still avoiding the VPS licensing cost issues.