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It's a market I expect will go away entirely. You can get VPSes for comparable pricing to shared hosting these days - DigitalOcean is $5, Heroku is free for the
by mootothemax 12y ago
It's a market I expect will go away entirely. You can get VPSes for comparable pricing to shared hosting these days - DigitalOcean is $5, Heroku is free for the first dyno, etc.
I'm not convinced the market will go away.
There are plenty of people who:
- Want hosting
- Don't have the technical abilities and/or time to set up a VPS
- Just want something that works - right now this very second
- With an easy-to-use control panel
- And want to pay $5 - $10/mo for the pleasure
Cheap hosting for non-technical and/or busy people is huge and I just can't see it losing market share to VPSes.
- marktangotango 12y agoI agree with this analysis.
- detaro 12y agoPaaS like Heroku is more or less exactly what such people want, isn't it? See the "deploy to heroku" buttons you see on more and more project websites.
- vidarh 12y agoI suspect Heroku is far too technical for most of the customer base of most of the shared PHP hosters.
- detaro 12y agoLooking on their main homepage again with that in mind: I have to agree, such potential customers probably wouldn't realize that this is what they want. So yes, there is potential for someone to make a Heroku for that crowd.