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How would you like fully managed KVM with 1GB RAM, 10GB SSD, 500GB Traffic @ $7/month
Disclaimer: This is a market research topic.
I'm wondering if there would be a market for the following:
1GB RAM
10GB SSD
500GB Traffic
1Gbps Uplink with awesome connectivity (90-100MB/sec from Cachefly)
KVM with custom control panel where you can install any ISO you want.
Fully Managed with or without a control panel
Price: $7/month
Would the management service affect your decision?
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Sign me up; don't need a CP, or Management.
What does this entail?
For 7$? You have a lot of Indian working for you.
Will you install lighttpd with fastcgi, compile PHP5 to be as lightweight and fast as possible, mysql with phpmyadmin, and then install and tune Simplemachines?
Yes.
Would it be done within 24 hours of the request?
And he'll leave a mint on the pillow when he's done. Oktay is a beast.
Should be
I would like it then.
And some chocolate.
@serverian
I might grab this to save myself time and to replace my currently shared webhosting because I don't have time to maintain a VPS for websites.
Also love KVM
What if it would be unmanaged?
Also love KVM
Still interested if it would be a unmanaged service?
I would prefer it to be unmanaged.
Why $7 when you could sell that for considerably more and with high demand? How would that even be sustainable for 24/7 proactive monitoring at that price point? Mind boggling
@serverian
No, I would want it to be managed as I have a lack of time to do it myself.
For all my unmanaged VPS'es I go with NodeDeploy, love their KVM deals. ($5 for a GB in USA, $7 for 2GB in UK <-- LOVELY)
These 10GB of storage plan make me, wonder who uses what for what. No, I wouldn't be interested. Smallest I touch on drives is 30GB and that better be some special place or a provider I really like.
Yes, that's why I asked. 10GB wouldn't be enough.
Me personally would prefer unmanaged if I'm going without a control panel, as I'm somewhat picky in the manner that it's configured initially. But I think for $7 people may actually jump at the availability of managed support if they get stuck in a rut.
However simple economics makes me skeptical that there has to be a trade-off of some kind to make that pricing work. IF it were for promotional purposes, I could see selling temporarily at a loss to gain feedback/publicity may work out in the long run, but if the pricing for that list is normal everyday pricing I'd be somewhat weary.
That being said, for what you're offering, even if you removed "fully managed", or even went with partial-managed, I think people in general would respond positively to that price point and offering.
Edit: 10GB is plenty if you're just doing a few websites, primarily without a control panel. Especially if said 10GB has high access speeds. If you're instead trying to run a windows server off that then... maybe not.
I'm not sure about the demand since @pubcrawler pointed, the space is may be small.
Yeah, it doesn't look profitable much with the monitoring and management but still doable.
Do it, I will buy one, just for the price
Can you define partial-managed?
Windows 2003 would be fine I think.
@serverian as you know, I like KVM, unmanaged and decent disk space (loved the ssd/hdd mix but ssd cached with 50GB disk is good middle ground). Which part of the world?
what for $7 a month you offer also cPanel license?
That means the management will be included even you don't use a control panel with the server.
So you would prefer SSD Cached 50GB over 10GB Pure SSD?
It'll be in Dallas, TX.
Planning to offer HDD space over NAS, as well.
@serverian - Is it going to be on LSN (LimeStone Networks, the folks who sent LET/LEB the DMCA take-down notice)?
Price: $7/month
This could be killer deal. Maybe not so much for tech savvy people here but generally speaking yes. I hope just that it won't kill you too
@serverian by partial manage I mainly mean stuff like answering general tickets to go in, restart services, or configure 'supported' pre-installed software etc. basically not a full suite but more of a "we'll do the following, within the realm of these supported software and version".