I have a heavily underutilized dedicated server hosted at ThePlanet. I am looking to split the costs with about 5-10 people. The server is a dual-core Xeon 3060 with a 150GB 10K RPM SCSI drive and 4GB of RAM. Plenty of power.
For $30 monthly I can offer Windows Server 2008 x64, 1GB of disk space, one 2GB database of SQL Server 2008, 50GB monthly traffic, 1 FTP account, MS Deploy access and IIS7 management console access. No email and no DNS (I can offer DNS if you really need)
but for email I am using Google Apps and for DNS I use the GoDaddy Total DNS (I can offer support on how to set up things).
Neat way to get a low-volume server for your account, but you may want to explain why for $30 you can provide less than they get for $20 or under on a decent shared server.
Please show me a shared hoster offering 2GB of SQL Server and 1GB of space for $30/month. Most hosters offer 500MB of SQL Server for $10/month and then you pay $10 for each extra 50MB...I am truly interested :)
Please show me a shared hoster offering 2GB of SQL Server and 1GB of space for $30/month. Most hosters offer 500MB of SQL Server for $10/month and then you pay $10 for each extra 50MB...I am truly interested :)
There are plenty! My host offers 1 GB MS SQL 2008 databases for $1.50/mo each.
I don't want to get defensive, but I had (shared) hosting at WebHost4Life...its the worst hoster I had to deal with. Its very very slow.
The Planet is in a whole different league. I never had a downtime for more than 2 years. If I let some windows open in a Remote Desktop session and next month I logged in, the windows were still there :)
I think that the hosters are cramming as many shared sites on a web server as they can. 100+ sites on a web server is not uncommon.
I have a heavily underutilized dedicated server hosted at ThePlanet. I am looking to split the costs with about 5-10 people. The server is a dual-core Xeon 3060 with a 150GB 10K RPM SCSI drive and 4GB of RAM. Plenty of power.
For $30 monthly I can offer Windows Server 2008 x64, 1GB of disk space, one 2GB database of SQL Server 2008, 50GB monthly traffic, 1 FTP account, MS Deploy access and IIS7 management console access. No email and no DNS (I can offer DNS if you really need)
but for email I am using Google Apps and for DNS I use the GoDaddy Total DNS (I can offer support on how to set up things).
So everything you need for a serious web site.
If interested please send me a private message.
Thanks.
I'd suggest couple of options for you:
1) If you are under utilizing your dedicated server, you can scrap it off and look for Hyper-V based VPS since it performs similar to dedicated server (dedicated RAM, full control over OS, etc.). You can get something like a 2 GB RAM VPS for around $60/mon.
2) If you want to keep your existing dedicated server, install Hyper-V role and upgrade OS to Enterprise Edition - you can thereafter create upto 4 guest VM's on your dedicated server and sell off individual VM's to end users.
I don't want to get defensive, but I had (shared) hosting at WebHost4Life...its the worst hoster I had to deal with. Its very very slow.
This is what my suggestion was to prompt. When people look at the price of $30 a month, they autmoatically say it's too much. When you compare to a WebHost4Life which runs 500+ sites (Yes, almost every server runs over 500 sites there, some larger servers
run thousands...) and can explain that the speed and restrictions are due to the load, the $30 becomes more platable.
cstavaru
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Looking to split dedicated server costs with about 5-10 people
Jan 05, 2010 12:31 PM|LINK
Hi,
I have a heavily underutilized dedicated server hosted at ThePlanet. I am looking to split the costs with about 5-10 people. The server is a dual-core Xeon 3060 with a 150GB 10K RPM SCSI drive and 4GB of RAM. Plenty of power.
For $30 monthly I can offer Windows Server 2008 x64, 1GB of disk space, one 2GB database of SQL Server 2008, 50GB monthly traffic, 1 FTP account, MS Deploy access and IIS7 management console access. No email and no DNS (I can offer DNS if you really need) but for email I am using Google Apps and for DNS I use the GoDaddy Total DNS (I can offer support on how to set up things).
So everything you need for a serious web site.
If interested please send me a private message.
Thanks.
jeff@zina.com
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Re: Looking to split dedicated server costs with about 5-10 people
Jan 05, 2010 12:52 PM|LINK
Neat way to get a low-volume server for your account, but you may want to explain why for $30 you can provide less than they get for $20 or under on a decent shared server.
Jeff
cstavaru
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Re: Looking to split dedicated server costs with about 5-10 people
Jan 05, 2010 01:01 PM|LINK
Please show me a shared hoster offering 2GB of SQL Server and 1GB of space for $30/month. Most hosters offer 500MB of SQL Server for $10/month and then you pay $10 for each extra 50MB...I am truly interested :)
BobbyK43
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Re: Looking to split dedicated server costs with about 5-10 people
Jan 05, 2010 01:08 PM|LINK
There are plenty! My host offers 1 GB MS SQL 2008 databases for $1.50/mo each.
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Re: Looking to split dedicated server costs with about 5-10 people
Jan 05, 2010 01:30 PM|LINK
OK here is one WebHost4life - for $10/m you will get 2GB of SQL, and much more of space that you ever may need.
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cstavaru
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Re: Looking to split dedicated server costs with about 5-10 people
Jan 05, 2010 02:10 PM|LINK
I don't want to get defensive, but I had (shared) hosting at WebHost4Life...its the worst hoster I had to deal with. Its very very slow.
The Planet is in a whole different league. I never had a downtime for more than 2 years. If I let some windows open in a Remote Desktop session and next month I logged in, the windows were still there :)
I think that the hosters are cramming as many shared sites on a web server as they can. 100+ sites on a web server is not uncommon.
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Re: Looking to split dedicated server costs with about 5-10 people
Jan 05, 2010 03:17 PM|LINK
I'd suggest couple of options for you:
1) If you are under utilizing your dedicated server, you can scrap it off and look for Hyper-V based VPS since it performs similar to dedicated server (dedicated RAM, full control over OS, etc.). You can get something like a 2 GB RAM VPS for around $60/mon.
2) If you want to keep your existing dedicated server, install Hyper-V role and upgrade OS to Enterprise Edition - you can thereafter create upto 4 guest VM's on your dedicated server and sell off individual VM's to end users.
Good luck with your sale :)
jeff@zina.com
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Re: Looking to split dedicated server costs with about 5-10 people
Jan 06, 2010 08:43 PM|LINK
This is what my suggestion was to prompt. When people look at the price of $30 a month, they autmoatically say it's too much. When you compare to a WebHost4Life which runs 500+ sites (Yes, almost every server runs over 500 sites there, some larger servers run thousands...) and can explain that the speed and restrictions are due to the load, the $30 becomes more platable.
Jeff