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The wire transfer makes me think these guys are hosting auteurs or the like. They may have a small clientele that they cater to exclusively and personally. As

by eksith 13y ago

The wire transfer makes me think these guys are hosting auteurs or the like. They may have a small clientele that they cater to exclusively and personally. As far as I can see, you really need VPS if you need that amount of flexibility. The only person you can count on to keep your stack up-to-date in the end is you. If you do it, you know what you did. All the host needs to do is make sure someone else's VM doesn't affect yours and bandwidth and power are taken care of. Running a VPS is an order of magnitude simpler than managing individual software packages/libraries, conflicts and such per client and so you will generally get better service as a result anyway. "Here's a bucket. Do with it what you please (just nothing illegal or resource hogging)." Then you just have to worry about the time you spend on keeping your VPS up to date. VPS packages are reaching the same cost that shared hosts had a little while back and if AWS isn't an option for whatever reason, it's the better pick. Edit: I should mention that I use two different hosts. One reseller and one VPS. The reseller on shared is for users who need the nice admin interface for everything, "one-click" installs, DB admin GUI etc... and the VPS for personal stuff and a couple of clients.

sigkill 13y ago
You can't just say VPS without mentioning http://buyvm.net/ http://buyvm.net/ I'd put up a referral link if I knew how to. There's of course OVH on its Kimsufi line with full fledged dedicated boxes for as little as 9 Euro a month for good numbers.
porker 13y ago
> The wire transfer makes me think these guys are hosting auteurs or the like. Or realise that to ask for 1EUR or more the fees they pay on wire transfer are much lower. WE encourage clients to pay us via bank transfer for this reason - it's free for us to receive with our bank, vs 0.20 + 2.9%. Sure, we're not trying to do it in bulk (with the wrong reference numbers etc) but given (here in the UK and I imagine Europe) everyone pays their tax this way each year, it's not unusual.
- eksith 13y ago
  Ah, I didn't think about that. I suppose all these little charges add up to more costs to the customers in the end. This saves you money, customers aren't too inconvenienced and existing familiarity is a plus.

by eksith 13y ago

sigkill 13y ago

You can't just say VPS without mentioning http://buyvm.net/ http://buyvm.net/ I'd put up a referral link if I knew how to. There's of course OVH on its Kimsufi line with full fledged dedicated boxes for as little as 9 Euro a month for good numbers.

porker 13y ago

> The wire transfer makes me think these guys are hosting auteurs or the like. Or realise that to ask for 1EUR or more the fees they pay on wire transfer are much lower. WE encourage clients to pay us via bank transfer for this reason - it's free for us to receive with our bank, vs 0.20 + 2.9%. Sure, we're not trying to do it in bulk (with the wrong reference numbers etc) but given (here in the UK and I imagine Europe) everyone pays their tax this way each year, it's not unusual.

eksith 13y ago
Ah, I didn't think about that. I suppose all these little charges add up to more costs to the customers in the end. This saves you money, customers aren't too inconvenienced and existing familiarity is a plus.