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I edited it immediately. You are right. Silly me.
I think there's about 3 of them that I get confused between, so I don't blame you. I'd be disappointed if at least one of the owner's aren't named Justin/Justine or something.
How often do you see promotions from premium providers such as
@crunchbits / @Clouvider / @hosthatch / @Layer7 / @host_c
@NDTN / @labze HostBrr / @buyVM / @Shakib HostCram
and there are few more
And now, think of possible reasons .....
If in doubt, pick premium providers
I think the most important lesson here is.. keep promos as promos. When you see interactions like this:
something's likely to go wrong.
I honestly thought Crunchbits might deadpool when I first saw some of their amazing yearly offers. But they are just really smart on how they pick which hardware to use and how they manage it.
Your premise isn't wrong, it's hard to go wrong picking the premium providers but you can find a few diamonds in the rough that could turn into premium providers down the road if you aren't afraid of losing from time to time. It's a speculative market.
When I got a promotional deal from a premium provider for $5 / month for VPS with 2 dedicated cores ...it was hard to believe at that time
But that VPS turned out to be very stable. And dedicated cores aspect was perfect for my use with Windows Server OS.
Later that provider told me that he had "extra unused capacity on a server"
The only thing better than that is you end up sticking with them because they're solid and next thing you know you're getting an email "Oh hey, we just upgraded our servers to the latest Ryzen 9 series and our network to 10Gbps. Your downtime should be no more than 5 minutes. Enjoy your free upgrade"
How about RackNerd and their never ending 10$ /y plans @dustinc
Well, it's just hard to keep up. What's new?
RackNerd and few others are premium too.
That list is not complete by any means.
Hello,
We also have premium offers
$15 a year in London UK
Plans from $3/ month
Link?
https://my.nohavps.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=1
There's an adverse selection problem.
Full price customers start cancelling.
Discounted customers keep renewing.
Revenue cannot sustain the hardware.
Here you go:
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X Server VPS
KVM RAM 4GB
NVMe SSD Storage 80GB
CPU Cores 4 CPU
Bandwidth 1TB
Price 3$ Monthly.(No annual payment. We need the client to be active)
Order Link: https://hostmayo.com/members/order.php?step=2&product=261&paymentTerm=1&paymentterm=1&couponCode=refugee
I don't think that's really a problem with the more serious providers with larger customerbase.
We are stuck here in our little "LET bubble" and think this is how the world works. It is not. The vast majority of people doesn't even know what lowend means, so most customers are not hunting promotions or deals, they buy a product at a price that is acceptable to them and keep it as long as it works. A few dollars a year or month is absolutely irrelevant to them since their time is valued so much higher than that. That is why providers that sometimes run a promotion can survive on the profits of their normal line of products, but providers that only sell with unsustainable prices are...well, unsustainable.
I often get caught in this bubble myself, trying to hunt down the best deals and getting pissed because it's 4$/m instead of 3$/m. It's kind of insane really, I spend three times that on coffee every day without hesitating, but when it comes to vps there is just something that makes me hunt for pennies.
You are absolutely right, sometimes we just get involved in something too much that isn't worth our time and later I came to know a word for that "Analysis Paralysis"
VPS isn't coffee. isnt whiskey. isnt weed.
YABS plz
i love hostmayo.
but if i used a lot of cpu, 7 out of 8 cores were taken.
1 core left.
After that, I nicely asked for 2 cores back so that I could have 3 cores, because I had already paid for the next month as well.
Unfortunately the GTA, NFS, server drains the cpu.
This was not done anywhere else, if I used 50% of the core there was no problem elsewhere. only hostmayo had a problem with this.
VPS dollar is more valuable than coffee dollar.
We spend $30 coffee dollars on BFCM to stay up for 4 nights, in order to score $6 VPS dollars dealz.
Customized YABS for this VPS @HostMayo
So you learned your lesson about always having a backup, right?
Hello,
Out of stock, but we will add some available beads soon.
UPDATE: Just got my refund from @justvm and with surprise they gave me a full refund.
We cannot match justVM prices obviously but we can offer 30% recurring on all our regular 1gbps and 10gbps products with coupons:
LET_10GBS_30
LET_1GBS_30
Making 1gbps starts at : 3.49 euro / month and 10gbps at: 3.84 eur / month.
Locations include: Netherlands, Canada and US.
You can check it out there: https://servers.guru/anonymous-vps/
Most customers don’t know what a Geekbench and Yabs is and simply don’t care, as long as it works well for their use case.
Your site's down
Exactly. As a consultant I've helped thousands of customers get what they need. I use the word need, not want, because they don't know what they want. They need something that solves their problem, and that's it. They could not care less about Yabs, kind of CPU, bandwidth etc as long as it works for them. If I told them to buy a $8/year promotion from Summerhost Deadpool LLC they would do it, and if I told them to buy a $400/month resource pool from AWS they would. They have no idea what the difference is, but as long as it gets the job they don't care. These are the kind of customers that creates longevity, not the bargain hunters that demands premium services for peanuts and jump ship as soon as someone else is two cents cheaper.