Why Is Hosting Not Gettting Any Cheaper
 

As tech advances surely so should hosting tech which should bring the costs of hosting down - ive not seen any changes in hosting pricing in a long time

omg, open the spam

Actually recently Webair upgraded their accts to offer more for the same money.

How much cheaper do you expect it to get before it becomes charity?
Prices were over $200/Mbps not to long ago.

e5hosting opened a thread offering Cogent prices including server on Verio network..... :thumbsup

spam #1, many more to come folks

tech improves in all markets - prices fall in all markets as a result

Here is the special we are running...

$23 Per Mbps Bandwidth Deal w/ Dedicated Server

Name the bandwidth you want (over 25Mbps) and just pay $23.00 per Mbps per month

including a server.

Overages charges:

25Mbps Overage is $55.00 per month
Server specifications: http://www.e5hosting.com/dedicated25.php

26Mbps to 50Mbps Overage is $50.00 per month
Server specifications: http://www.e5hosting.com/dedicated50.php

51Mbps to 75Mbps Overage is $45.00 per month
Server specifications: http://www.e5hosting.com/dedicated75.php

75Mbps to 99Mbps Overage is $40.00 per month
Server specifications: http://www.e5hosting.com/basic5.php

All servers are put on a Dedicated 100Mbps Full Duplex Port per server (not per rack).
Verio Tier-1 Bandwidth

Just ICQ me if you need a different server configuration.

Regards,

Anthony

When the tech sector downsized in 2000-2001 hosting became much more affordable.

yup hear they lost level 3 hit me if you need anything at all

we offer tier one and separate cogent lines with fail over to our webair network

Prices for hosting will actually start to rise soon. The small resellers and cheap cogent and other peering asshats that have built their business models around over comits and being the cheapest are short lived. Quality hosting is a business and with any quality business there are costs and profits that have to be made. Under cutting the market has always and will always prove to fail in the long run, that's why sayings like "You get what you pay for" became a saying. :2 cents:

Why does a technological improvement mean a decrease in price?

Usually its increased competition and no originality that causes companies to compete with each other that lowers price.

Technological improvements might make manufacturing costs lower but why would a vendor pass that to you without competition from other companies?

As far as hosting prices - they are on a perpetual decline to $1/mbps.

Right now prices vary widely from $13/mbps up to $150/mbps.

5 Years ago you would never see a price below $200/mbps.

exactly this is a sign that the larger guys are phasing cogent our slowely IMO

its because all the bandwidth comes from Iran and we wont see lower prices until we invade =(

You really must be looking in the wrong places. In the just over 2 years that I've been selling hosting, prices for bandwidth have dropped quite a bit and hardware demands have continuously risen.

There's a lot more to hosting then plugging a server into a wall and hoping everything works.

True, thats why I host with you guys :thumbsup

lol... don't Venezuela and N Korea also have lots of it? I heard on Fair&Balanced that they've been stockpiling bandwidth for yyyyyyyyyyears... oh noes!

and not with crapair :)

I dunno, maybe you're looking in the wrong places. dreamhost 's prices are absurdly low and it's a top notch host to boot.

*For virtual accounts.

ewwww..dreamhost...
I was with them until last month, and they are anything but good :)
definately worth the $9/mth for the 120gb transfer IF you don't need reliability or mysql...
but let's just say that a LOT of TGP's weren't happy with galleries hosted on there..

I moved on to e5hosting :)

The term "Tier-1" Died in the late 90s, please stop throwing it around like it means anything.

Thanks,
BMF

I think proper SPAM might include a ref code, my post did not. Thanks for playing! :thumbsup

$7.95/month for 120 GB bandwidth is pretty cheap for a highly reliable host!

in the 2 years i've been with a certain place their prices went from 350 bucks for 300 gigs/month to 250 for 3000 gigs/month. not cognet either. i'd say they've changed a bit.

So is the $90 something comission you get when someone signups under you.

yeah, where you been, hosting prices are way down, if you want to know how cheap just icq me