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*Market Research* KVM Price Point

SkylarMSkylarM Member
edited November 2013 in General

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

  • MultiMulti Member
    edited November 2013

    Dont you mean 120GB HDD 60GB HDD?

    60GB Bandwith would be awesome :D

    EDIT: Okay, you fixed it :)

  • SkylarMSkylarM Member

    Bah the formatting broke, let me fix it.

  • MorningIrisMorningIris Member
    edited November 2013

    are you sure about HDD space?

    Ram: 512MB / Disk: 120GB

  • SkylarMSkylarM Member
    edited November 2013

    @MorningIris said:
    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.

  • luissousaluissousa Member
    edited November 2013

    Why does the one with 512MB RAM have more disk than the one with 1024MB RAM?

  • SkylarMSkylarM Member

    @luissousa said:
    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

  • ATHKATHK Member

    Option one - $7/month
    Option two - $13/month - HDD is lower I would rather buy 512MB..

  • luissousaluissousa Member

    @SkylarM said:
    Wait wait I see what I did. Doh! YOu be right. Im thinking backwards today

    Okay, I would give 7$ in Plan 1# and 10$ in Plan 2#.

  • SkylarMSkylarM Member
    edited November 2013

    @ATHK said:
    Option one - $7/month
    Option two - $13/month - HDD is lower I would rather buy 512MB..

    Yeah swap it around I didn't drink enough coffee when I tried doing this thing called math.

  • ATHKATHK Member

    Haha! If that's the case bump #1 down a dollar or two if you are feeling generous.

  • darknessendsdarknessends Member

    @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.

  • SkylarMSkylarM Member

    @darknessends said:
    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.

  • darknessendsdarknessends Member

    @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.

  • SkylarMSkylarM Member

    @darknessends said:
    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 ;)

  • darknessendsdarknessends Member

    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.

  • cosmicgatecosmicgate Member

    first option with around 5-10gb and 1TB bw at $5 is ok with me.

  • afterSt0rmafterSt0rm Member

    @SkylarM, the custom package concept is very good if you can keep the price low.

  • kontamkontam Member

    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.

  • darknessendsdarknessends Member

    @EkaatyLinux - I seriously think he should quickly go for CUSTOM KVMs.....
    Everyone is gonna love it.

  • skybucks100skybucks100 Member

    I'd pay $5 for the 512mb and $7 for the 1gb.

  • painfreepcpainfreepc Member

    @kontam said:
    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.

    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

    512MB RAM
250GB Disk space
1 vCPU cores
1TB Bandwidth
1x IPv4 Address
1Gbps uplink
KVM/Custom Panel
$5/Month
Order here
(Multiple locations)
Coupon: LEBNOV250

    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.

  • painfreepcpainfreepc Member
    edited November 2013

    i use Backupsy US #1 - But i need a little more ram and 2 ip's
    So can you offer something like this:

    768MB RAM
100GB Disk space (60GB is ok - but 100GB is great)
2 (Dual hex core nodes)
2TB Bandwidth
2x IPv4 Address
1gbit uplink
KVM Panel
$7/Month
  • kontamkontam Member

    @painfreepc I think that's pushing it a bit. :)

  • painfreepcpainfreepc Member
    edited November 2013

    i pushed it, i got it, i even got the 2 ip's - thanks Ryan

    Venti KVM Promo Limited to 10

    3 CPU Core
1024MB RAM
60GB RAID10/SSD Cached Storage
3TB Bandwidth
1Gbps Port Speed
1 IPv4 Address
KVM/SolusVM
$7/Month

    Order: https://portal.catalysthost.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=55
    Promo Code: 1GBKVM7

    http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/17113/tx-catalyst-limited-10-1gb-kvm-60gb-raid10-ssd-cached-storage-3tb-bandwidth-for-7#latest

  • ryanarpryanarp Member, Patron Provider

    Thanks @painfreepc for the recommendation. Funny thing is I never actually read this thread, I just added a promo code to an existing plan. :)

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