What are the advantages of leasing a stick of RAM?
 

Let's say your server is running a little slow and you decide to invest in some additional RAM, is it better to buy the RAM even if you're broke and have to borrow the 100 dollars for the 4GB stick of RAM or is it better to lease the 4GB RAM from the hosting company for 20 dollars a month forever?

good question , I would just not buy it and buy drugs instead

yes I say spend the funds getting BJ's in West Hollywood, fuck that server

The best choice is not being broke

Solid advice from GFY crowd.

I heard people who were here around 2000 are are rich :)

I always laugh when I see a hosting company try charging a monthly fee for RAM or hard drives.

why - i don't think there's anything wrong with a 1000% markup on computer parts. don't forget the maintenance cost on the stick of RAM, you need to do regular diagnostic tests on it, remove it and give it a bath every once in a while, caring for a stick of RAM is more than the average person knows.

I have so many 8 GB sticks just laying around. This is a serious thread, right?

I remember when 16MB was like $250. That's right, I said megabytes, not gigabytes.

Agreed, it's stupid, ram is cheap. Ask them if you can just drop ship them sticks from Amazon.

it depends on the hosting company :)

more ram = more power used = higher cost for the company also they need to stock spare ram in case it goes bad.

there a little more to the cost of more ram then most people think.

When I got my first computer - we paid like $700 for 4mbytes.

What? You wanna buy a stick to ram sumphin? Geeeezzzz. I'm confused. Chopstix?

I once paid $1400 for 4 kilobytes, and it weighed 25lbs. When I wasn't using it for calculating stuff, I could do curls with it.

Some companies charge $20 monthly, and more, for modest RAM increases. If the RAM increases the energy bill by $20, wow.

The price of keeping RAM in stock for failure is mitigated by having multiple servers/clients. If you have 10 servers with a total of 160 GB of RAM on those servers, I'm willing to bet you don't have 160 GB of RAM laying around.

A hosting company is free to do what they want, of course, everyone should just know that there are plenty of great hosting companies that will only charge you for the cost of the RAM itself. Shop around.

I think if you need to lease 4gb of ram, you have bigger problems than needing 4gb of ram.

you should totally rent everything

the advantage goes to the hosing owner.

Depend on where you are located(tax law) and the price, because the lease ram is deductable as a service, but if you buy the RAM, you need to add it a asset in your Company and write it off over a longer period.

Most of our customers have "hardware as a service" because its leased capacity, wich makes it more scalable for smaller customers. Some of the webshops have 4x capacity during X-mas sales, but scale down the rest of the years. That is hard to do if you had bought the hardware.

No wonder you guys are getting raped by consumers. You are all idiots too.
You want everything for free, yet some how magically want to make PROFIT off your sites but don't want to let anyone else profit.

If you want to pay for it outright, go colocate your own entire machines -- oh wait, how many of you can afford to even buy a single server?

Cheap, broke, stupid trolls.


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yup there are plenty of companies that charge 1 time fee's for ram.

Why not look into why your server is running slow? If it is constantly running out of ram and needs to use the hard disk as virtual memory like Windows does, then yes maybe more ram would help.

But check to see why it is out of ram. You may have a program running on the server that is using up ram but then not clearing it out once the process is done for example, or, you may have unwanted scripts or other processes.

If you're not out of ram, maybe you're out of cpu time? Check to see what processes are eating up the time. Maybe again you have unwanted programs running.

You can always shop around for better prices too. Maybe a new server at a new host is cheaper than upgrading your current one. Or maybe you can talk your host into upgrading you for free if you've been a customer there for long enough.

I tell the hosting company to give me the extra 2gigs free or I am going somewhere else. It has always worked in my favor except once and I went somewhere else.