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About Lifetime VPS
I don’t know much about the server industry.
Are there any major server companies that offer VPS plans with a one-time payment for lifetime access?
I’ve seen this topic come up a few times, and I’m really curious about it. I’m not considering smaller companies. As for the big ones, I’m willing to pay a bit more.
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Define what is your understanding of "lifetime"
For example, a 80-year service life
Such deals usually come around only for special events, e.g. black friday.
ZAP-Hosting
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/185578/zap-hosting-lifetime-servers-discussion-updates
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/5751/zap-hosting-lifetime-servers-discussion-updates
C-servers has some you can buy anytime
https://web.c-servers.co.uk/category/multivps-one-time-paid-servers
Some providers today define “recurring” as “throughout the entire lifecycle of the product line/server series.”
There’s no reason “lifetime” wouldn’t be the same marketing spin, an empty promise with zero guarantee 😄
Does that mean they won’t provide service if a product line is discontinued?
It depends on the fine print, but there’s no chance that any today’s servers serie will still exist in 80 years. They’ll either have to upgrade you for free every few years or find a way to kick you out. If company itself still exists by then...
If you find a good lifetime deal, please update this thread in the year 2106.
Okay, be sure to check back then.
A lifetime plan is like asking for a lifetime in prison
Seems like a good deal.
Wait! There is free VPS in prison? Where do I signup?
Your lifetime or company lifetime? Because there's plenty of lifetime scams out there (market, get prepaid, close company/bankrupt/transfer clients = lifetime nullified).
This is quite difficult to calculate in terms of risk and/or other issues (not including force majeure).
Companies in IT industry overall let alone hosting industry don't make risk projections for 5+ years, considering 100 years is completely nuts - whoever promises otherwise is an outright a fraud.
Didn't we just have this entire conversation in another thread?
So I'm wondering if any larger companies do this. Larger companies aren't likely to go out of business easily.
I feel like something better might be to invest the money (100-200)$ in a more stable market which can then pay for the 7$/whatever vps that you have.
And if you wish to support providers, I think that the idea is simple that they run deals with limited stocks on lowendtalk and you can buy them and through the money that you get them, they are also likely to then restock it too/raise their servers.
Usually, Triannual deals might be the best way imo to really support a server provider/get something similar to lifetime vps. Although I Have seen some 5 year deals but they are usually not worth it and usually triannual deals are something which are tried to be made well worth it by providers so you can maybe even find some really great deals if you genuinely want a vps for 3 years/longer timeframe than the yearly/monthly basis.
At some point if you want vps's which run for 80 years, I feel like its quite an impossibility partially because you are bound to have some issues and the support system might be one of the most constrained parts within a hosting provider and this is a complaint you see that you either have to buy support additionally etc. too.
Just my 2 cents
Larger companies are larger because they don't make unsound financial decisions like this as soon as they do either shareholders will eat the ceo out or they vanish because of poor quarterlies after initial boom.
Lifetime deal makes sense in shorter period - for example lifetime of the whole infra for the service.
That's why you can find hosting lifetime - because hosting is easier to oversell as a much better controlled environment.
VPS lifetime means sometime you'll get a miner or ai cracker next door and that'll be the end of resources.
Factor in all the possible blackswan events over the years (which haven't happened yet, btw) and no, nobody will touch that with a ten feet pole.
We've been 28 years in this business and still would pass the lifetime offers: because guess what, the electricity is 5 times the cost of what it was when we started, same for everything else, sans compute itself, even dc-racks and pdus which barely changed technologically cost twice more over the last 10 years. Costs of running the business rose directly (because insurance, gas etc also rose, general inflation is knocking into the triple digit percents atm). Where you optimized with IT is now paid more in tax or austerity measures.
Get a longer period, ask around from providers directly, some might offer a 5 or 10-year plans.
80 years is a massive timeframe for anything in IT. Even if a big company stays in business that long, the hardware would have to be replaced at least 10–12 times. Imagine trying to run modern software on a 'lifetime' server from the 90s. it would be basically useless today. Big providers usually avoid these deals because they can't predict electricity and data center costs that far ahead. Honestly, a solid 3-year or 5-year plan is probably the closest thing to 'stable' you can find without it being a huge gamble.
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