Hello forgive if I am posting into the wrong section.
We have got a question to ask to you who handle dedicated servers in the States.
To better understand this market and to learn by an advanced nation we'd like to know if you do resell more to end-user or to "resellers" who get customers and keep filling servers by themselves.
I mean your "average" customer is a reseller that rent a shared server or just lots of end users coming from everywhere?
We are just curious to know about that as we consider States more advanced that Italy (at least about internet) and this could help us to better answer market needs in the near future.

thank you everybody

P.S: we actually own about 24 box planning to improve our market presence in italy

hmm, to answer your question as an enduser/reseller

i would say the majority or people will purchase a dedicated server for one of the following reasons

1. They have a massive web site and need a single server to host it.

2. They have an interest in it themselves and purchase a server, then use this server to "sell" services to make the money back from it, but will never attempt to make excessive profit from the server.

3. Getting a server PURELY for web hosting, with the intention to make profits from the server.

4. of course we have the "other" option, as the use of dedicated servers is so diverse i could not even begin to to state all of its uses, but i would imagine the above three are the most popular.

Anybody have any other thoughts on what is popular use for a dedicated server?

Originally posted by xtstrike
Anybody have any other thoughts on what is popular use for a dedicated server?
Absolutely. You forgot a big reason why some people get a dedicated server, to be independent of the abysmal service at so many companies.

This is why some people with their own sites get one, even if those sites would work fine under shared server hosting. It is also why some reseller hosts get one. It can be difficult to provide a consistent level of good support when the company whose server you are sharing is negligent and deficient.

I have hosted a number of small business sites for 3+ years now (all I host are businesses and organizations). They rely on me to handle their web affairs and trust me both professionally and personally. One of the reasons I got my own server was so as not to betray that trust, however, indirectly or inadvertently.

It also allows me to add services taliored to business needs. That means that not only is reliability greatly increased, but the services I can offer are increased as well.

Some of my other reasons are a blend of all 4 you've already listed.

I knew i had missed one out there somewhere, that is probably the most important aspect as you mention.

The feeling that no matter what goes wrong on the server it is your own responsibility, and as long as its connected to the internet you can do pretty much whatever you want to it, and "if" something does happen to go wrong, you will know it is "your" fault and your problem to correct, as "you" are the one who configured it!

The feeling of a major responsibility i think is part of this point.

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Then you get your server perfect and the network fails, it is then you realise someone still has complete control over you :-(