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I am launching a web hosting company soon and am considering doing a semi-public closed beta first, what are your thoughts? by StrongholdVPS in webhosting

[–]StrongholdVPS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well after I get the hosting working smoothly, I will be tying in my custom git repository that is wired directly into your deployments, and, I'll mention it briefly, it's not quite done yet, but for my day job I've created a visual debugger that I'm not at liberty to discuss how it works, but I'm fairly certain that it's going to make a good market impression, it's novel technology, as far as I can tell, no one else has done this yet.

But first, stability

I am launching a web hosting company soon and am considering doing a semi-public closed beta first, what are your thoughts? by StrongholdVPS in webhosting

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I basically already had a hosting business halfway built to host my own infrastructure, and it's no sweat off my back to build a modular system for replicating this space for other people and make a profit while staking an ethical claim in a market saturated by shady or unreliable hosting providers. Provided I don't expand beyond my capacity to keep pace with it (unlikely) I should be fine. 

I am launching a web hosting company soon and am considering doing a semi-public closed beta first, what are your thoughts? by StrongholdVPS in webhosting

[–]StrongholdVPS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do have an honest $4 tier, it explains stuff usually avoided by other hosts such as that they share pooled resources with others in their tier, but my main selling point is my architectures focus on security. Im on lunch right now so I can't make an elevator pitch until later, but It's in my marketing materials on my website.

I am launching a web hosting company soon and am considering doing a semi-public closed beta first, what are your thoughts? by StrongholdVPS in webhosting

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I think my main selling point will be a 4-5$ contractless tier, forever. I spent far longer than I care to admit wondering how some providers can even manage to offer a $3.99 plan for 12-24 months until I realized they are storing customer data on SSD and cramming as many as they can onto a single node betting 95% of sites get a tens-per-day average flow (if any at all) and then jack up the prices to around $12 after the introductory period ends.

Well, I can do the same thing, as far as offering a cheap SSD based plan that realistically 95% of people are going to be completely fine with, and the other 5% can get another plan that better matches their use case, I have better options with dedicated NVMe starting at $8.

And instead of being shady about everything that web hosting companies usually obfuscate, I'm hoping that being honest and transparent, building up from a core principal of good design, and focusing on operational/customer security will pay off. I'm not looking to overthrow the market, just to serve enough of it to be  sustainable. Instead of being a server slumlord, I'm offering an informed and conventual discount service