All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Hosted services & niche markets, what would you like to see?
AnthonySmith
Member, Patron Provider
Hi Folks,
Just a quick community question, not loaded just curious and considering yet another project 
What sort of hosted service outside the regular suff i.e. shared hosting, dedi, VPS would you like to see?
Recently I looked in to hosted iSCSI for personal use the prices were insane, not suggesting that it was just one that crossed my mind.
So just wondering if there is anything you wished was hosted but you have not found or anything cost prohibitive that you would like to see offered cheaper?
Also random stuff is good to get the old brain working, or even variations on current offerings.
Examples:
Retro Game Hosting
Hosted NFS storage
Hosted clean gateways using pfsense (when latency is not important).
Hosted emulation (e.g. done through RDP Remote apps)
Hosted powerful compilation environments for dev's
Just a quick list off the top of my head, just wondering if anyone has ever been in the position of "damn I need to setup and configure and manage a VPS/Dedi when all I really need is XYZ.... why is no on e offering this?"
Not a thread to be taking overly seriously any and all suggestions welcome, I might pick one of them up as a project.
Ant.
Comments
Hosted cloud exchange is a big market IMO which is not fully utilised
I really would like to see object oriented storage, something similar to http://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/storage/
I'm also looking for email hosting, just a few domains and a few accounts that's not used that much, but I think I'll end up with Google Apps.
@black something like http://mxroute.com? @Jar
Off loaded Database servers (MySQL, Mongo, etc.) with multiple location would be cool (distributed would be a plus)! Amazon's lowest plan is $12 a month.
Email hosting has been around since about 1992
Something exactly like it. But a buyVM $5/year plan sort of works as well, and I'm pretty sure if you go with the reseller package for $2/month, it'll definitely work. So paying $24/yr for reseller package is better than just paying for email, imo.
Indeed very true, but I'm looking for something in the extreme LowEnd range
Hosted jingling!
A niche market that I been thinking about is shared hosting but based on personal containers (LXC), a shared mysql for all customers and each customers gets its own container for apache, nginx or openlitespeed web server.
This, right here! Some sort of offloaded MySQL/MariaDB service. If it could be done with geolcoation, my god.... Just... Take my money... Take it.
Affordable DNS service
Edit: Something with very simple billing. And very affordable of course. And make the service awesome
+1
+2 DNS,rDNS
Hosted Ghost blogging instance. The official ghost pro is quite costly.
We do something similar to this already.
VPN service with the normal trouble making things blocked, such as torrents. It would be great to have a few reliable locations that I can use when I visit conspiracy sites.
I am currently paying for two VPN providers and the servers are constantly going down due to abuse from other customers.
I'm not sure if a VPN with blocked features would attract many customers though.
@jcaleb @ZEROF Rage4 already does very reasonably priced DNS already
lots of LEB's (<128MB, <5GB disk, <=100Mbps) , lots of locations, lots of providers, great uptime.
timesharing of hardware, i.e. ASICs and GPUs
This, though it would probably be an incredibly niche offering.
Something that gets shared hosting done while satisfying your tweaking side.
Have you looked at Dream Host ? They provide a shared or virtualized SQL service either as standard (shared) with their web-hosting and also VPS packages or as a premium for their private MySQL instances, but as far as the way they configure it I believe it fits your requirements closely.
i like alternative
That was my point as well.
+1
Cheap DDoS protection as a service (GRE?) would also be nice.
+1 Off loaded Database
backup services, where you rent space and install a small agent on the server for backups. example on software are R1Soft and Ahsay.
RDP based on Terminal Server, you only rent a desktop, no admin access. software pre-installed or use Portableapps installation. (Would require MS SPLA licenses).
Simple billing anycast DNS/geodns
Any idea what the actual license is for that, I assume these days it is an RDS CAL?
You can still get CALs and do it that way, Per User or Per Device.
cheap storage of some kind, something that can be attached to any vps as with nfs, iSCSI, or thelikes.. and im talking about safe storage, so redundant or backed up etc...
For "safe" storage, I don't think anyone can match the prices of Amazon - or no one has the capital to have three data center redundancy and own their own hardware.
I'd like to see servers that come pre-installed with all software a person could possibly need (private usage.) this will save alot people time installing and configuring software themselves. Some of the software I'd like to see by default with such server:
Owncloud
Webmail + pop3 etc
Seedbox (Deluge with remote Daemon and web-UI enabled)
VPN (PPTP + OpenVPN) & Proxy
SFTP & FTP
Some other things people could be using everyday.
It would be nice if I could rent a server that has all this installed by default, like a all-in-one package, I'd be willing to pay 50 euros/m for this if the uptime and storage is good.