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I'm guessing you're trying to make a word play joke, though...I don't get it.
@raindog308
not at all, let me explain :
i wanted to understand your reply with " That's not the point for all of us. "
are you saying that its not the point to gain profit from investing on vps or dedicated?
If you're running a profit-driven adventure it doesn't make much sense to compare profits with server cost. It's a bit like asking "do the things you do on your webservers provide you with a living"
It's one possible point but hardly the only one.
Your poll question was "how much did you spend for vps or dedicated on 2014 & gained back".
I run VPSes for a variety of reasons:
etc. These all cost money, but none of them are done to gain profit.
I suspect there are many other people who run VPSes for reasons other than making money - their personal mail/file servers, game servers, seedboxes, etc.
Is that really that surprising!?!? Do people only view the Internet as a place to get rich? If so that makes me kind of sad.
@ricardo
wouldn't it be nice to earn some good money from the learning or at least return the amount spent.
anyway, in 2014 i had my share of spending with 0 income and now i plan to use what i know in some project hopefully.
@raindog308 it can be the opposite where one can get poor"er"
You can't reduce it down a simple formula like the question you asked, raindog points out several reasons why.
I could buy a $10/y VPS, put up a few pages with financial content, stick adsense on and craft half a dozen fraudulent clicks at $10 a piece. That'd be a huge % of profit in the frame of your question.
Alternatively I might buy some hardware and colocation and offer cheap VPS and make 10% profit.
You could provide some code to do [insert cool thing here] and rely on donations.
Hardware is generally cheap so it's not a good metric to measure the success of whatever you're doing. Your time is more valuable, and a better metric to use. If someone spent 10 hours creating something that generates $10 of revenue a day, that's better than someone spending countless hours on a 2 Euro dedi, IMO.
@ricardo , i agree and in fact useful content is all that matter even if it does not generate income. thanks for your input
I guess it depends on how you view life. The things I do online make my life better and the world better. I don't view that as getting poor.
I have absolutely no objection to people making money online but I hardly think that's how we should judge benefit.
65 USD spent.
8 USD gained
Is that " 57 USD Lost ", or " 73 USD Gained " ?
I refuse to answer this question LoL
How do you even make money? Lol
57 lost.
My Own Dedicated Box:
Spent - $249 / Month | Gain - None
Company I Worked For:
Spent: Around $53 Grand in Dedicated/ Co-location Bill | Gain: Billion of Dollars annually.
****> @SpinNaker said:
which company did you work
spent >300 on servers
got >100% return XD
(Vultr servers pay for themselves via referrals with a 1:1.5 ratio )
(Other RamNode Server have my main sites which generate enough revenue to pay for itself and 2 freelancers to update it daily XD XD XD)