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> Ease of use has always been a major selling point You're right, but that doesn't mean people need shared hosting, it means people need managed hosting. Shar

> Ease of use has always been a major selling point You're right, but that doesn't mean people need shared hosting, it means people need managed hosting. Shared hosting is a gimmick model designed to make hosting companies rich based on the concept that 99% of websites will be failures. And it is _nothing more than that_.

rightos 9y ago
By your own description, doesn't that make it a great model in "99%" of cases? If you outgrow it, sure, but your odds of a small business or little WordPress blog outgrowing such a thing are quite small. Paying more might not make sense in that "99%"of websites.
joshmn 9y ago
I operated in the shared hosting space for years and sold a shared hosting company to a company you know for six figures (not "omg" but I was 19 and it was only two years old) — I'm very, very familiar with shared hosting. I've been in it for more than 10+ years. > You're right, but that doesn't mean people need shared hosting, it means people need managed hosting. I'm going to very much disagree with you. Why does Joe's Pizza need managed? They can follow one of the zillion tutorials on using fantastico/softaculous to install WordPress, find a theme from ThemeForest, learn how to install it, and then add pages. They don't need to pay ungodly managed hosting fees for their low volume. What defines a successful website? Not IPOing? I would define a successful website as one that has organic traffic (somehow), content, and response times under 250ms. If you use my definition, 99% of websites are successful. Sure, shared hosting is a volume game for the most part because the volume game is _easy_. There are providers who are on the higher-end of shared hosting spectrum, charging a premium and providing a premium. All because you don't see their ads every day doesn't mean they don't exist.

rightos 9y ago

By your own description, doesn't that make it a great model in "99%" of cases? If you outgrow it, sure, but your odds of a small business or little WordPress blog outgrowing such a thing are quite small. Paying more might not make sense in that "99%"of websites.

joshmn 9y ago

I operated in the shared hosting space for years and sold a shared hosting company to a company you know for six figures (not "omg" but I was 19 and it was only two years old) — I'm very, very familiar with shared hosting. I've been in it for more than 10+ years. > You're right, but that doesn't mean people need shared hosting, it means people need managed hosting. I'm going to very much disagree with you. Why does Joe's Pizza need managed? They can follow one of the zillion tutorials on using fantastico/softaculous to install WordPress, find a theme from ThemeForest, learn how to install it, and then add pages. They don't need to pay ungodly managed hosting fees for their low volume. What defines a successful website? Not IPOing? I would define a successful website as one that has organic traffic (somehow), content, and response times under 250ms. If you use my definition, 99% of websites are successful. Sure, shared hosting is a volume game for the most part because the volume game is _easy_. There are providers who are on the higher-end of shared hosting spectrum, charging a premium and providing a premium. All because you don't see their ads every day doesn't mean they don't exist.