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$38,000 seemed like a bit much, but that works out to $31.66 a month. Still more than a typical hosting plan, but I guess the assumption is that hosting won’t b

$38,000 seemed like a bit much, but that works out to $31.66 a month. Still more than a typical hosting plan, but I guess the assumption is that hosting won’t be so cheap in 50 years.

Giorgi 3y ago
why would someone assume that? for all that we know storage becomes increasingly cheap and connection increasingly stable and fast.
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veavo 3y ago
$31.66 a month for a wordpress hosting plan is an absolute rip-off.
- BrentOzar 3y ago
  > $31.66 a month for a wordpress hosting plan is an absolute rip-off. Today, maybe. For the human costs of hosting support in 2123, given the cost of inflation, it might not be, and these plans include technical support. (Although you could also that the technical support work on most of these 100-year plans should be dropping over time too - especially if the human being involved passes away. You could even argue that AI might be doing the technical support in 2123.)
- keiferski 3y ago
  Today for sure. But if someone twenty years ago said I could have 100 years of Starbucks lattes for $2/each, it would have turned out to be a great deal. It depends if hosting is affected by inflation or not.
  - HyprMusic 3y ago
    But back then $2 would have been worth more than $2 is now so, assuming you paid upfront, you'd be no better off.
    - keiferski 3y ago
      It would depend on how much price inflation correlated to currency inflation.
542458 3y ago
I’d be curious to know what actual inflation is on hosting plans. Feels to me like inflation on budget-tier hosting is zero to negative, but that’s very subjective. In any case, I’d expect to be able to host a bunch of century Wordpress sites for very very cheaply, provided you locked down plugin installation. Without plugins they’re a known security and upgrade profile, and I expect traffic on 99.95% of them to be effectively nil or highly cacheable. To that end the price feels a bit outlandish to me.
janejeon 3y ago
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- x1f604 3y ago
  Sorry, I don't understand how the plan becomes cheaper after factoring in inflation. Wordpress is asking you to make a one-time payment of $38k NOW. Not in the future. Inflation means $38k right now is worth a lot more than it will be worth in the future. So I don't understand how you came to the conclusion that the plan is cheaper after taking inflation into account.
  - janejeon 3y ago
    Oops, you're right. I'll be deleting the original post.

$38,000 seemed like a bit much, but that works out to $31.66 a month. Still more than a typical hosting plan, but I guess the assumption is that hosting won’t be so cheap in 50 years.

Giorgi 3y ago

why would someone assume that? for all that we know storage becomes increasingly cheap and connection increasingly stable and fast.

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veavo 3y ago

$31.66 a month for a wordpress hosting plan is an absolute rip-off.

BrentOzar 3y ago
> $31.66 a month for a wordpress hosting plan is an absolute rip-off. Today, maybe. For the human costs of hosting support in 2123, given the cost of inflation, it might not be, and these plans include technical support. (Although you could also that the technical support work on most of these 100-year plans should be dropping over time too - especially if the human being involved passes away. You could even argue that AI might be doing the technical support in 2123.)
keiferski 3y ago
Today for sure. But if someone twenty years ago said I could have 100 years of Starbucks lattes for $2/each, it would have turned out to be a great deal. It depends if hosting is affected by inflation or not.
- HyprMusic 3y ago
  But back then $2 would have been worth more than $2 is now so, assuming you paid upfront, you'd be no better off.
  - keiferski 3y ago
    It would depend on how much price inflation correlated to currency inflation.

542458 3y ago

I’d be curious to know what actual inflation is on hosting plans. Feels to me like inflation on budget-tier hosting is zero to negative, but that’s very subjective. In any case, I’d expect to be able to host a bunch of century Wordpress sites for very very cheaply, provided you locked down plugin installation. Without plugins they’re a known security and upgrade profile, and I expect traffic on 99.95% of them to be effectively nil or highly cacheable. To that end the price feels a bit outlandish to me.

janejeon 3y ago

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x1f604 3y ago
Sorry, I don't understand how the plan becomes cheaper after factoring in inflation. Wordpress is asking you to make a one-time payment of $38k NOW. Not in the future. Inflation means $38k right now is worth a lot more than it will be worth in the future. So I don't understand how you came to the conclusion that the plan is cheaper after taking inflation into account.
- janejeon 3y ago
  Oops, you're right. I'll be deleting the original post.