provider — LowEndSpirit

Is ad-financed web hosting still profitable and tolerable today?

AGXL — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:12:29 +0000

I remember that in the 2000s there were some companies that offered free web hosting in exchange for advertising banners on the user website or in the web control panel. This system seemed to work well at the time. There were also some companies that mailed out newsletters with affiliate offers.

A little nostalgic side story: I had my first website with such a provider when I was seven years old, in 2001. I was very happy with it.

Since I've been doing web hosting for over 15 years, I've been thinking about whether it needs a revival. For example, I thought about the customer logging into the web control panel, just like on various news portals, and having a choice of four videos that they have to click on to continue. It's like watching an advert before a YouTube video.

I've noticed recently that there are fewer and fewer of these adverts.

I would appreciate a lively discussion and answers to the questions.

HostHatch service down?

emptyPD — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:44:19 +0000

Hi guys, like me someone is having any problems with HostHatch?

Chicago Storage 24 hours service down, 2 Tickets and no response, i don't know if it's only me or a provider outage, status page show all fine. Thanks.

Scaleway Stardust Instances: 1vCPU, 1GB RAM, 1 IPv4, €1.8/month

kmessy — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:31:03 +0000

Scaleway is proud to introduce our own 1GB instance with our world-class ecosystem and at an out of this world price: €0.0025/hour.

1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM, 1 IPv4 address, 10GB of local storage, up-to 100Mbps Bandwidth, unlimited trafic and compatible with the Cloud ecosystem. All included for €1.8/month.

-> https://www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances/

As I work @ Scaleway, you will find an independent benchmark here: https://projector.cloud-mercato.com/projects/scaleway-stardust/sysbench-cpu/price-perf-graph

THE AIO IP Related Thread. (IPv4 + IPv6 + ASN) (Only Providers and LIRs are allowed to post offers)

SGraf — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:44:08 +0000

Hi everyone!

By now there are a few Providers and LIRs that rent out & sell resources.
All future IP/ASN related commercial requests or questions are to be posted in this thread.

Only members with Provider or LIR tags are allowed to post offers in this thread.
Requests can be placed by anyone.

Good Luck

Resource Pool Pricing Guidelines - Feedback Wanted

uptime — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 07:07:00 +0000

Looking to get a better sense of what would be appropriate pricing guidelines for resource pools.

(As per https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/3249/#Comment_3249)

So far for KVM pools we have @HostDoc starting with a 1 GB ram / 30 GB storage / 2 instance pool in the EU region @ £4.89/m (about $6.35 - regular pricing at https://kvm.doctor/cloud/ - see comment below for previous "deal" pricing.) and going up to £16.50/m (about $21.50) for 5 GB ram / 80 GB storage / 5 instances in several locations in the USA.

And the unadvertised KVM pool from @SMARTHOST with 2 GB ram / 5 instances @ $6.95/m in many locations in the USA and also in Amsterdam.

for OpenVZ resource pools we might look forward to seeing anyNode and impactVPS finding their way here "real soon now" ...

anyNode advertised a few OpenVZ7 resource pool deals available just in Miami back in May, ranging from $12/yr (1 core - not sure how that makes a "pool" but okay whatever) up to $7/m or $72/yr for:

6 virtual machines max
6 Cores (max 1 per VM)
6GB RAM 
120GB SSD
6 IPs
6TB bandwidth

and impactVPS has standard pricing listed on their website for their well-regarded resource pool product starting at:

$12/m for 4 GB ram / 4 cores / 45 GB storage (with 5 IP addresses)

and going up to:

$60/m for 20 GB ram / 20 cores / 225 GB storage (with 25 IP addresses)

available in Seattle, New York, and Dallas.