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xenigo · 06-08-2009, 11:27 PM

I was talking to an IT friend of mine today who has a friend who has boxes in a datacenter that he resells as a hosting service...

He mentioned that it's a common practice among webhosts to sell a virtualized machine as a so-called "dedicated server". It makes sense from a scalability perspective, but I haven't yet decided if I think it's right or wrong to sell something as something it's clearly not.

I've suspected this all along, considering that customers aren't within a physical vicinity to see their own machine with their own eyes. It really wouldn't technically matter... technically. But do you think webhosts should be more honest about what you're really buying? That you're really paying for access to more server resources, etc... and not a box entirely of your own?

What are your opinions?

06-08-2009, 11:27 PM
xenigo Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 8,067	common practices of webhosts? I was talking to an IT friend of mine today who has a friend who has boxes in a datacenter that he resells as a hosting service... He mentioned that it's a common practice among webhosts to sell a virtualized machine as a so-called "dedicated server". It makes sense from a scalability perspective, but I haven't yet decided if I think it's right or wrong to sell something as something it's clearly not. I've suspected this all along, considering that customers aren't within a physical vicinity to see their own machine with their own eyes. It really wouldn't technically matter... technically. But do you think webhosts should be more honest about what you're really buying? That you're really paying for access to more server resources, etc... and not a box entirely of your own? What are your opinions?