Re: Hosting allowances economies of scale
Jeff Koch <jeffkoch-z9rozGE7tQ3bqFK/qXjecwC/[email protected]>
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Good questions - but I wonder you can realistically use the bandwidth. Do they throttle the CPU's so that its impossible to use the 5,000GB's ? They probably bounce you if you get close the using the full capacity. At 10:59 AM 10/1/2008, you wrote: >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 >========================================================================= >-- >Eat sushi frequently. - Avi >[email protected] is the human contact address. >[email protected] is the list posting address. >See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: >http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list Best Regards, Jeff Koch -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list