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lol'd, most dom0's are 512, 1024 is big, 2048 is huge
But how most providers do is they use OpenVZ, oversell the node until they make enough to buy another node and then do that, move the people and do it again.
Netherlands. Most McDs suck here.
Outsourced staff is pretty cheap
I moan because something seems to make OpenVZ hosts think they have a god given right to lie to customers by calling RAM Dedicated, one idiot here even argued with me and said "It is dedicated ram it is just shared dedicated" so I do not see any comparison here I am offering 100% dedicated 2GB Ram on Xen which is pre allocated, while all the OpenVZ hosts in the Ram race are offering 2 - 3 - 4 GB Ram on the same hardware they were offering 512mb for the same price last year as 'New Offers'
Anyway... my blood sugar must be getting low so I am going to eat something before the Incredible moaning hulk comes out to play.
@mpkossen
I've been there, never had a bad one yet :L I'm bias, because I work for McD.
McD is to BK what Windows is to Linux.
You go there for playing games, not for the food.
Haha, that may explain it. Lets put it this way: only some restaurants stick to the law and toss away stuff after 10 minutes. The rest just lets it cool. It's terrible. One time, my drink was warmer than my burger.
You go there for playing games, not for the food.
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@AnthonySmith
I must admit that I simply love your dedication to the 'XEN' topic. So much temper! I swear that one day, I will get one of your NL packages, just because of the attitude. I have a XEN VPS with iperweb that I am VERY happy with, but as soon as the need for a second one arises, you will be my first choice! You would have to do something custom for me though. I do not know whether this is possible...
Sort of an off topic question here (sorry OP, for thread hogging), but I have a couple of questions.
Let's say someone were to start a LEB VPSs hosting company, how many dedi boxes would one require, for let's say if someone were to only provide VPSs in one DC/location?
Also, what are the specs that should be required for each/at least one dedi box? And last but not least how much (in USD) of total expenses/money required to start said company?
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@Ivan Shhh.... you're asking for a secret recipe
Haha, drop me an email I will give you on on the house for a few months
I am a nice guy I just don't suffer fools gladly and I get grumpy when I am hungry 
...now it's personal.
@marcm
I do tech support for a large quick service restaurant chain similar to McDs, and they have ridiculously high profit margins. I've seen their cost sheets and they have 20-40% profit margins on most of their items on specials.
Try getting the 1 Terabyte RAM server from online.net
you can get a node from datashack for $50, SolusVM is about $20, WHMCS is about $20, a domain is a couple bucks a year if you find a good promo. SSL is like $2 at Namecheap...
You now officially can be a hosting company!!
But seriously, get a quality server for like $200-300/month, make an LLC, and do everything right the first month. Don't do what I did and start with a $50 DataShack server without RAID... avoid OVH at all costs.
Colocate. That simple.
Don't limit yourself to only selling LEBs.
We tried to tell you
Many people tend to look at me and others like to providers jalous that OVH sells dedicated servers at less than double our VPSes.
But, while it may be ok for an individual to use OVH for torrenting or for a small site, even back-up box, for a provider it is a nightmare as you do not have the ability to check all the time what your customers are doing and, even if you were, if Murphy strikes, someone will run something with a high packet count and you get booted for DDoS, nobody will care to look if it was real or not and even if they see wasnt real, they still dont need trouble and dont have the will to deal with it.
So, yes, regular users of LEBs, OVH can be great if they sell to you and you dont need to contact them or their automated tools dont freak out or single you out for any reason, it is indeed great, low prices, good connectivity (well, for some regular guy), good speeds, weird traffic computation in your favour, big disks at times, even raid, everything fine and dandy, but a provider, no-no, I think they actively try to find a casus beli to boot them anyway.
You now officially can be a hosting company!!
Thanks for sharing your business plan.
@Patrick: LOL, i was advising the other person NOT to do that