As I'm sure most people are aware, as has been the case for some time,
many large hosting companies, including now NetSol, are giving gargantuan
allowances for disk space, bandwidth, DNS services and mailboxes for
paltry sums. It's gotten obscene as of late. See:
https://www.networksolutions.com/web-hosting/package-comparison.jsp
For example, for $17.95/mo (paid annually), they give 500GB (that's gigs)
of storage, which is more than all of my servers combined even have, 5
Terabytes of traffic (that's 10 times as much as rackspace would give me
for a $400/mo managed server and far more than I have enough bandwidth to
accomodate for even one user), 2,500 mailboxes, and pretty much all the
trimmings (php, MySQL, stats, etc).
For my part, I've not seen anything remotely resembling these economies in
terms of my costs. Am I a sucker for using 10k and 15k RPM SCSI/SAS RAID
level 1 disk subsystems? They don't even make SAS drives with more than
300MB, and they're not cheap. Colo fees are going up, not down and even
bandwidth pricing at the colos haven't gone down significantly.
Obviously the customers I'm keeping mostly understand the difference in
dealing with me as opposed to a huge hosting company, but the vast
differences in pricing is getting hard for them to ignore, especially in
these times.
How do you deal with this squeeze?
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
[email protected] http://3.am
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