And yeah, one of us decided to ask in there a simple question like "
Are there some 1 dollar webhosting good companies?"
Because we're very disappointed from 1dollar-webhosting.com and we're not rich, I'd like to ask are there other 1 dollar webhostings that are good enough?
The answers were:
DanielP said that honestly, 1 dollar is way too cheap to provide anything reliable in this world these days and that we may as well look for a free host if our budget is that low as he can't see anything like that working out very well.
HRR-- said that he does agree with the above. And just to think about what we are asking for.
We want a $1 dollar host, he guesses 1/mo , and expect to have some form of reliability... He can't imagine anyone spending the time to help a customer for $1/mo. He also said that that person could just get a job at a fast food and have a decent life in comparison to that (working for $1/mo).
The so talkative Mike - MDDHosting of course answered as well and as you may expect he is strongly against people to pay only USD 1 for hosting. Enjoy:
There are a few problems with $1/mo hosts.
1. It's a high-volume / low-profit operation.
2. Any support provided to a client automatically causes that client to be a loss / to cost more than they're paying.
3. The customers that tend to be attracted to $1/mo hosts tend to be the most unreasonable with the highest expectations. [no offense @MSLYJ - I'm speaking from experience in this industry over nearly 2 decades].
All 3 of these things tend to mean that a lot of people sign up that need a lot of support - all of which cost more than they're paying in.
If a $1/mo host doesn't just fold in short order - the support will be incompetent at best and totally absent at worst.
selinux said "ya, if you host a personal blog or wiki, I'd stay away from any organization web/mail." which I don't understand.
CrocWeb said that as others mentioned, we may try to increase our budget if we want a reliable hosting service and that one dollar hosting is simply unrealistic.
Phil McKerracher said that Mike is right, it's simple economics. Even if we put 1,000 customers on a server and ignore the hardware, power, network, advertising and payment processing costs, $1/month would only buy about 1 minute of a skilled person's time. That means if we have any problem at all they have to either ignore us or go out of business. If our site harms the server they have to just throw us off as quickly as possible.
He also said that we should forget any promises about "uptime guarantees", "24/7 support", "satisfied customers" and so on, because they're marketing tricks - not exactly lies, but worth nothing. The best we can do is try each host out but be prepared to move to a different host at the first sign of trouble (have good backups, in other words). They will do their best to keep their servers running smoothly, otherwise they don't have a business. But they can afford to spend precisely zero time or money on any individual customer's problem - they're only concerned with problems that affect LOTS of customers.
And then, at the end, Postbox said that given that our other thread was about avoiding one such 1 dollar webhosting company, he'd say that we already have our answer, and that they're done there.
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