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Hostrunway – Enterprise Infrastructure Experience, Now Exploring the LET Market
mikesmith007
Member, Patron Provider
in Providers
Hello everyone!
I’m from Hostrunway — we’ve been working in the hosting industry for a few years now. Today, we’d like to start engaging with the LET community. We’re not selling anything yet, just starting a discussion and learning from experienced members here.
Current Focus Areas
- Container-based deployments
- Dedicated + virtual infrastructure
- Exploring low-cost KVM plans
- Looking at US/EU/Asia/AFR expansion based on demand
- 160+ global locations
What We’d Love to Know:
- What makes you stay with a provider long-term?
- Is low-cost support acceptable if the network is stable?
- Would is most interesting locations globally?
- Do you prefer yearly billing or monthly flexibility?
Once we understand the expectations properly, we plan to request the appropriate tag and prepare offers within LET rules.
Thanks for your time — excited to be part of the community!
Mike
www.hostrunway.com
Thanked by 1JasonM
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Monthly but habe option of yearly
I stay with provider if price is right and service is up
I run away if
You spam me with mails
You decomisssion a service
You do a promisse and dont keep it
If the price gets jacked up
Location i dont care
Support i never need unless first installation or you fuck something up
My use case is usually proxmox to run vms/lxcs
Or storage either for PBS or duplicati backups
There are many many hosts and i'm not ready to pay premium for support because i never need it
For me it's usually faster to restore the vm on another server from backup
Dont need free X months either, migrating/setting up a service is a hassle
So either i let it idle forever or do the actial setup and keep paying forever
This name... must be a joke
Host Run Away.
First of all, Welcome!
For your questions, these are my answers;
Delivering the promises and prices are the most important factors for staying long-term. I want to get what I bought.
Low-cost support is no problem. As long as I get proper and problem-solving focused support. It's more frustrating to deal with non-helpful support and It make me leave that provider on the nearest exit. I don't use support too much so doesn't important. Having good system and UI will help. I don't want to open a ticket for simple tasks like firewall configuration. If you have great UI/UX for server configuration, I think support become less important.
Having more location options is always good but providing stable and good service more important. But generally, I prefer more stable and known locations instead of niche ones for general usage.
I definitely prefer yearly payments over monthly for cheap vps but I'll mostly go with monthly payments for dedis.
Also I just checked your website, I know those prices are not discount prices but I would like to say that we could get the same server for a year with your monthly prices(for example HVC 2). I saw that you have great location coverage so my guess that would be the main attraction point.
I hope you can prepare offers for this BF, If not I'm expecting launch deals
GLWS!
indeed first my eyes read: HostRunAway!
quite a cool summer-host name is that!
well, on LE market we need KVM VPS starting $10/yr - $15/yr range with 1CPU, 1GB RAM, minimum 10GB nvme/ssd, minimum 2TB bandwidth, and 24/7 support. though not managed. but yes, they should monitor node, network, and virtualization.
160 locations?
Welcome to LEB/LET community and here are my suggestions based on LEB/LET purchases for the last 10 years.
1) Offer a modern control panel such as VirtFusion - with at least 5 snapshots. Many existing providers are horrible when it comes to backups and snapshots.
2) Enable ArchLinux and ensure it works on ipv6 and ipv4. Currently very few service providers bother to get it right.
3) This means ipv6 is not an optional thing. We live in 2025 and not 2015.
4) Make upgrades easier and at reasonable prices. We use LEB/LET but we do not like "this is what it is - you cheapos" kind of dismissive attitude of many existing sellers. Cloud technology is meant to be scalable.
Good luck with your product design. I will be delighted to be your first customer and make further friendly suggestions.
Kind regards.
Any exotic locations are in high demand here. You can offer basic VPS there, good amount of traffic is preferred.
Depends how high is the discount for yearly price.
Haha — we’ve heard that one before! 😄
The name actually comes from “Runway for hosting growth” — the idea of giving clients a solid infrastructure runway to launch their projects.
But we appreciate the humor — we’ll try our best to ensure nobody runs away from our hosting! 😉
Thanks for the warm welcome!
You spam me with mails
You decomisssion a service
You do a promisse and dont keep it
If the price gets jacked up
Location i dont care
Support i never need unless first installation or you fuck something up
Or storage either for PBS or duplicati backups
For me it's usually faster to restore the vm on another server from backup
So either i let it idle forever or do the actial setup and keep paying forever
Thanks for sharing your preferences clearly — this really helps build a realistic approach for the kind of users we may eventually serve here on LET.
From what I understand, your priorities are:
✔ Monthly billing with yearly option
✔ Price stability & uptime over fancy support
✔ No forced migrations / decommissioning
✔ No spam / unnecessary promotions
✔ Proxmox, VMs/LXC, storage (PBS / duplicati)
✔ Easy backup/restore > support tickets
That makes complete sense — especially the point about letting a service idle instead of migrating often.
We respect that kind of usage pattern and would definitely keep these points in mind if we shape any future plans for this market.
If you ever feel like sharing additional thoughts on:
Minimum specs for Proxmox setups (CPU / storage type / bandwidth)
What makes VPS reliable enough to stay forever
What price point makes “idle forever” reasonable
We’d appreciate it — not to sell anything right now, but to understand real-world needs better.
Thanks again for taking the time to reply.
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback — really helpful!
You’re also right about our website pricing — it isn’t aimed at LET yet. Once we have the proper tag, we’ll work on LET-specific offers and pricing models. If BF is possible, we’ll try — otherwise, we’ll plan proper launch deals later.
Appreciate your time and honest feedback
"Hostrunway"
Offer some $7/year vps which will remain idle for most of the users. You don't even need to restrict in overselling because even if it works poor, people won't complain much. Those who will complain, they will be shut down by others for being greedy.
Don't forget to give a tag line which they will have to recite for some goodies and of course double of something if they comment with that slogan. KEEP it running. If the hype goes down, then restock for 4-5 in quantity and then hype again.
Then bring some flash deals which are appealing but will be out of stock within seconds. (max 10 in quantity).
Hype the crowd for those 10 vps like no offers will be tomorrow. Crowd engagement is must.
Don't be serious. Don't be afraid to post memes and adult memes here and there helps the cause.
This will bring you one of the top 10 in black Friday providers with the bang and you'll be more prominent because in the first year itself, you'll be achieving this feat.
You will build a loyal fans if you do this who will defend you no matter what.
This template has been worked for many providers. And it's a sure shot to among the top.
cpu 1-4 cores, always depends how beefy
storage type, ssd ALWAYS, normal ssd is fine, does not need to be fancy gen5 nvme either for boot or for files, if we talk storage server, then hdd, ssd is too expensive for 1-2-3-4-5-6 tb
bw, for me 1tb i usually plenty regardless of size, unless it's a storage server then tb amount of storage = tb amount of bw
99.9% availability or better, so 9h of downtime (network, hardware, maintance etc) total per year on average
if one year you cant keep that up, then either i expect free upgrade (can be tiny) or tiny lifetime discount. Treat me well, communicate with me well and you'll have a perfect customer that never ever opens a ticket, pays 1-2 days after the invioice is generated and says a good word about you (sup racknerd, zappie, bakker-it, labze)
$5/y
i usually keep 1 or 2 when i need to try out some stuff or run random script
afterwards i just wipe the vm
np
I clicked into the thread because of Host run away. After reading some comments, I realized that it is Run Way
Man, enterprise-grade hosting in 160 datacenters under another generic hostbla name. Could be interesting, welcome and ping me when the $7/yr deals drop.
$7/year with sufficient resources for our highly efficient apps
Yes
Antarctica
Yearly
I feel like I'm on an airplane on the runway, waiting to take off, since your website is slow to load!
Wow, that's a lot of locations. Would love to see more South American server offers on LET.