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Are there any hosting providers that are "moving money"? Most of them seem to have pretty minimal profit margins and low valuations by the financial community.
by gaadd33 12y ago
Are there any hosting providers that are "moving money"? Most of them seem to have pretty minimal profit margins and low valuations by the financial community. I believe Voxel sold to Internap for only $30M.
- txutxu 12y agoA few (about 3) years ago, the company where I was (in Europe) did make money doing hosting over housed space. We did hosting (dedicated and virtualized servers), managed services, and re-housing, this is, rent again the racks/power/IPs which we did rent on different providers. If I'm true, I think it did work very well because the company did get very big projects, because the company management did have great agreements and contacts with high environments (local government, local banks, football teams, newspapers, etc). That is, I as a technical person, do not see myself starting from zero the same AND getting the local customers we did use to get. And much less global customers. I can assure the systems part of the project budgets, did make great money. Even more profitable on maintenance status. The worse on the company was sometimes, the development team's estimation and execution balance.
- gaadd33 12y agoRight but there's making "great money" which for anything that has fixed overhead is probably like 2-3x cost vs "great money" for software which implies you have 80%+ margins.