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How much would you pay/charge for a full DR of your server?
If you could have a fully configured ready idle copy of your VM sitting waiting for you to fail over to in case of issues - what would that be worth to you? Would you pay 50% extra? 100% ... 200%? Or perhaps nothing?
Or, for the service providers/hosters here, what would you charge for it?
Like, if someone pays you $100/mo for a server, and you upsell them a DRaaS solution - how much extra could you charge for this? What would a 'fair' price be?
It would be a fully uptodate replica with idle&reserved infrastructure (CPU/RAM/Storage/etc) waiting for you to failover to ensuring minimum downtime in case of failure.
It seems to me that this kind of service is reserved exclusively for the high-end enterprises as Zerto/Veem/etc are not at all priced for massmarket or SME use cases.
So, if you pay $100/mo for a VM/Server, what would a fair price be for that server to have a full DR service attached to it? A replica ready to fail over to at any time - only a DNS change required.
Your input would be really appreciated!
Thanks!
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- What would DR be worth?8 votes
- Nothing, DR is not important62.50%
- 50% extra12.50%
- 75% extra12.50%
- 100% extra12.50%
- 150% extra0.00%
- 200% extra0.00%
- More, this is a premium offering0.00%
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If you're paying $100/mo for a VPS server then you'll most likely be able to afford two dedicated servers and build your own HA infrastructure. Thing is, if you opt for a VM, you want to reduce your costs, not increase them.
So, in this situation, I wouldn't be even interested, 50% extra is $50. $100 + $50 = $150, that's enough to afford two dedicated servers and have way more available resources.
understood - two things though
1) It's super hard - well, not trivial at least - to build offsite CDP replica's that are ready to fail over to.
2) At scale VM's tend to be more expensive than dedicated servers, way more expensive. But obviously you are right when it comes to the DO/Vultr like servers.
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I think for most customers, it's 'nice' in theory, until you ask them to pay for it
yup, that may just be the case. It could be there's a reason for this kinda thing to be offered in the enterprise segment only.
The trouble is that the market seems a little 'splintered'. On one hand you have the LET type user, who 'expects' gigabit nics, E5's, all SSD, 24/7 support and backups for $5 and on the other, the enterprise client who 'gets' the point and value of IAAS and understands the value and saving they can realise by moving to it versus colo or dedicated footprints and will take a DRAAS in a heartbeat...
Not sure it's possible to cater for both
For sure, ditlev, but LET isn't the right forum to ask about it... We're too cheap! ;-)
... And most of us, tech savvy, hence why we'd build our own HA infrastructure instead.
That's something to ask in WHT :-)
true, though - and perhaps I am naive here - somehow it can be compared a bit to CDN services. Only 6% of all websites in the world are optimized with a real CDN, and that is just silly. It's bad for the internet, and for our industry in general.
However, prices for CDN has just traditionally been too high for the remaining 94%. Or it's been to hard to implement etc etc.
Entrybarriers to the CDN scene has been so high (+50 pops) that the guys offering CDNs are milking the market, only addressing the top 6% of websites that would be willing to pay a premium.
I think this is the case for DR as well. It's clearly a nice thing to have - failures do happen all the time, so why not find a way to make the impact of those failures minimal, even for the mass market or SME segment?
Makes sense?
Agree
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