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    Killing The Hosting market

    I just seen some of the European hosting companies are offering very low cost Servers . Under $ 30

    They are killing the hosting market. What do you think about that ?

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    That is normal for cheap service :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by ALEXEI_M View Post
    I just seen some of the European hosting companies are offering very low cost Servers . Under $ 30

    They are killing the hosting market. What do you think about that ?
    Exactly now there competition between companies, they offer 9 Eu servers as well..
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    I bet you they're worth under 30 USD as well.
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    Scale and SLA

    Its possible..in a sense that every hosting provider has a different strategy of targeting customers and growing their business
    they are going for volumes
    any drop in volumes and theyll bleed
    economies of scale is a very big factor.
    everything like b/w.electricity,hvac,human resources etc is shared except the server.which has a fixed and can be recovered.
    clients should care more for their SLAs once they are being provided these services at such a low cost.
    they are not killing the business they are creating more possibilites and making more affordable for customers

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    Cheap servers are their own market. Some will use them some won't.
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    Yeah, cheap servers and sh*t support. That's the "path to success".

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    Free cheese can only be found in a mouse trap! it is same

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    Free cheese can only be found in a mouse trap! it is same
    Good one !

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    Each market have their own share
    No need to worry about it, as long as we can give premium services for our customers.

    Not all user know how to manage dedicated server from dedibox/digicube, if that what you mean, many user might choose a ready to go, rather than the unmanaged server.

    But, for a highend provider like liquidweb and linode or rackspace, they will still getting customers aren't they?

    So, no need to worry
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    OP they are not killing hosting market.Cheap server comes with no support.
    Failure is success if we learn from it.

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    IMO competition does not kill a market... it just makes service better.

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    Customers are clever, they use cheap servers for gaming, etc and not for business purpose.

    But they are making hosting business more difficult.
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    Cheap is okay... But make sure the support and uptime are relatively okay as well!

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    I'd rather go with a free host, they are the same thing...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ALEXEI_M View Post
    I just seen some of the European hosting companies are offering very low cost Servers . Under $ 30

    They are killing the hosting market. What do you think about that ?
    when that comes to support and after sale service. People often loose huge amounts.

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    I use Hetnzer, OVH and Oneprovider (Oneline.net reseller) for game servers. For $39 US I get an E3 server that can host several games. I really havent had any issues with them and if one fais its trivial to cancell it and get a second one going in an hour especially from OVH. So why would I pay $100 more from a more expensive proovider?

    You could say OBD 2 scanners are killing the auto shops since everyone can diagnose their own cars but in realitiy 90% of the public wont and doesn't want to.


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    You would never know how much CPU, RAM and Bandwidth resources you can have from them but you know it is likely to be not enough.
    A healthy business shall grow together with your IT service provider so you shall pay a fair amount of money to keep them alive.
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    Cheap servers offers consumers to be able to use hosting at an affordable price. But its a choose wether you use it or you don't use it

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    Quote Originally Posted by digitallog View Post
    OP they are not killing hosting market.Cheap server comes with no support.
    And inferior hardware, on inferior networks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kpmedia View Post
    And inferior hardware, on inferior networks.
    Not every DC has to cater to mission citical customers. Why would I pay $200 for a high quality E3 server which runs a game vs a $40 E3 server that does the same job and the newtowrk works just fine for gaming.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Vex76 View Post
    Yeah, cheap servers and sh*t support. That's the "path to success".
    Totally, agree! You got what you paid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Evolver View Post
    and get a second one going in an hour especially from OVH
    Not that easy anymore.

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    If you intend to make a living or profit from your website then how much you want to pay for hosting is proportional to your your profit and size of business. Even $300 a year isn't exactly going to cut into your profits unless its just a hobby that earns a bit of money.

    If they are affecting the market then I'd guess it might be streamlining / filtering it for the more expensive hosts by attracting businesses seeking it cheap which could be indicative of how they are a business that might fail in general. I've no idea.

    The support of my non-cheap frills webhost has been important and saved me hassle.

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    The support worth much than a $9 server. Why buying a server, a cheap server if the support does not exist or charge $50 for reboot .

    Cheap and good are not equal on hosting business

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