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How is GreenCloud cheap?
neighhouse
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They give astonishingly great specs, NVMe drives even for half market prices and still have restock almost every other month for most locations.
How do they do it? Do they really have a lot of customers on the normal monthly tiers that make it affordable for them to offer their budget plans?
I've been told it isn't sustainable and I'm sure it isn't, but for how long will they hold on in this market.
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hopefully very long
Given they are around for a good while without deadpooling it seems their calculation works out for them. How that calculation looks like is obviously something nobody but GreenCloud would be able to tell you and they won't. Chances are a favorable business environment (they are in Asia and not regulation-galore-price-hike-Europe after all) is likely going to play some role.
Unless they IPO then they have no chance.
By having a solid business plan and knowing your margins.
People who believe it's unsustainable do so as they have no idea of their costs, margins or anything else.
greencloudvps.com？
they are NOT cheap, they may have some "cheap" promotion deals, these deals are non-refund annual deal with very restrict resource limit, mainly used by Chinese for proxy use
This. They are definitely not cheap.
But have some cheap package which are very limited in number.
Hmm, i wouldn't really call their $25/y, $35/y or $45/y VPS very restricted but then it's debatable which or how far those still pass as cheap.
Also i have a feeling that at this point everything that doesn't have at least like 4 cores, 8GB RAM and 10TB of traffic is considered restricted by some people, which is partly also debatable but regularly simply a skill issue.
4 cores with a 30% policy keeps those machines ticking along nicely!
Most are just promo offer and are out of stock.
It's not as if GC has huge stock of such servers and offering everyday.
yeah, you can take these offers are advertisements, but i believe they still can make some money on these plans
That and also people who have a good idea of costs and margins but are not very efficient, and execute poorly. People with performance issues.
Well, i've been checking them quite regularly lately and for the most part it's only the $15/y offers that are unvailable. For $25 and up there's more than enough at pretty much any given time. Maybe not exactly this or that location but overall they seem pretty well stocked to me.