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*Market Research* KVM Price Point
Alright so this is purely hypothetical, I'm eyeballing some potential possibilities for KVM services, and I'm curious as to what the low end market would like to pay for the service (this will be a complete overhaul from what we presently offer).
Location would be Jacksonville, FL if we roll anything out. No we're not looking at secondary locations right now.
We're talking reasonable rates, nothing like "OMG FREE LETS DO THIS YEAH!".
Here's the starting lineup:
KVM (Windows OKAY) Option 1
Ram: 512MB
Disk: 60GB
Bandwidth: 3TB on 1gbit
Cores: 2 (Dual Hex Core Nodes)
IPs: 1
KVM (Windows OKAY) Option 2
Ram: 1GB
Disk: 120GB
Bandwidth: 4TB on 1gbit
Cores: 3 (Dual hex core nodes)
IPs: 1
We're talking hardware raid, solid performance with the very serious possibility for SSD caching.
If you could name a price for these specific plans, what would you pay monthly? What would you pay yearly?
Comments
Dont you mean 120GB HDD 60GB HDD?
60GB Bandwith would be awesome
EDIT: Okay, you fixed it
Bah the formatting broke, let me fix it.
are you sure about HDD space?
Ram: 512MB / Disk: 120GB
Yes. May come down just a tad to 100GB on that and 50GB on the 1GB, but not sure on that quite yet. The general area for space should be assumed within that range though.
Why does the one with 512MB RAM have more disk than the one with 1024MB RAM?
Wait wait I see what I did. Doh! YOu be right. Im thinking backwards today
Option one - $7/month
Option two - $13/month - HDD is lower I would rather buy 512MB..
Okay, I would give 7$ in Plan 1# and 10$ in Plan 2#.
Yeah swap it around I didn't drink enough coffee when I tried doing this thing called math.
Haha! If that's the case bump #1 down a dollar or two if you are feeling generous.
@SkylarM : So if you are trying to sell KVM servers my idea would be you do not do 1x RAM 50xDisk, than 2xRAM 100xDisk, Rather than make packages like this.
256MB RAM,
100 GB DISK ( A nice server for someone needing disk space )
May be 3.5 USD/month
1GB RAM,
30 GB HDD ( For someone needing memory intensive apps )
May be 5 USD/month
and than
2GB RAM
50GB HDD
I would say 7 USD/month
If you can run at less margins KVM would be welcome.....80% of providers can do 1GB RAM KVM within 7USD anytime.....20% would do 2GB RAM as well.
Or may be allow for a custom package building service, Let people chose what they need.
It could go like this.....
1 USD fixed fees for IP
128 MB memory for 0.5 USD - Multiply it for more
25GB HDD for 0.5 USD - Multiply it for more
--- Using that let people make their own package.
Depends a lot on how much IP Space do you have in hand.
IP Space isn't a concern at all, it's more breaking into the KVM market with reasonable offers. A lot of offers that are in the $30/yr 1gb range are on rented hardware and they are barely breaking even on their server rental fees. We aren't interested in competing with owned hardware in that specific range, but we do want to offer something compelling.
@SkylarM : No body offers a custom KVM package - Just divide stuff wisely and bring in some numbers. If you do not have a IP Space concern there you go. Just let people roll their OWN KVM Configurations. Allow upto 8-16GB memory to 250-500 GB HDD.
No need to do SSD caching, go for 8 x HDD with a nice RAID card.
I like the custom package concept, we can consider it. The node would be 12x hdd with raid card
Try to use Dual E5s with a lot of RAM - They will be best for this purpose.
Alternatively if you are low on budget Dual L5650 + 72Gigs might work too.
first option with around 5-10gb and 1TB bw at $5 is ok with me.
@SkylarM, the custom package concept is very good if you can keep the price low.
I wouldn't pay more than $10 provided the storage is SSD cached, for HDD I'd say $7. With so much space and bandwidth but only 512MB RAM I can't do much except use it as a backup server and Backupsy offers 250GB for $10.
@EkaatyLinux - I seriously think he should quickly go for CUSTOM KVMs.....
Everyone is gonna love it.
I'd pay $5 for the 512mb and $7 for the 1gb.
it's $5 as a backup server "Backupsy US #2"
add $2 you can use as reg vps - so it's $7 total per mo
http://lowendbox.com/blog/vpsdime-7month-6gb-ram-openvz-dallas-backupsy-7month-250gb-kvm-usuk/
i have been using "Backupsy US #1" for about 3 months now with no problems.
i use Backupsy US #1 - But i need a little more ram and 2 ip's
So can you offer something like this:
@painfreepc I think that's pushing it a bit.
i pushed it, i got it, i even got the 2 ip's - thanks Ryan
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