On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:53, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Not quite. With all these solutions, you're paying for: > 1 Your share of the hardware > 2 Your share of the sysadmining costs > 3 Your share of electricity and physical space > 4 Your usage of bandwidth, > > Now, let's compare: > > Virtual hosting: costs 1,2,3 very small because they are shared among many > people using the same server (hundreds or even thousands > users per machine). > Cost 4 is relatively low because with virtual hosting > you're typically assumed to be a relatively small site.
I don't agree with this last assertion, but I don't think it makes a big change. > > Dedicated server: costs 1,2 are zero, cost 3 high, cost 4 high > > VPS: costs 1,2,3 relatively high because shared among only a > few (probably not more than 10) clients. Cost 4 high. > No, cost 2 is practicly non existent - each user manages his own VPS alone. Moreover, in real life a dedicated server has admin costs - even if only to reboot the server from time to time, which is much lower for VPS, where such things are managed in software by the end user (since it's a virtual reboot). Also, a VPS has much lower inital provisioning costs (copy a bunch of files from a tempalte) versus the bring up of a new hardware machine, connection to network and placement in rack that a dedicated server has. In fact the provision cost and time of a VPS solution is O(provisioning cost of virtual hosting) :-) In addition, in your own words cost 4 is 1/10 of the same cost for a dedicated hosting. Thus, we get: VPS: cost 1,3 high, cost 2 practicly zero and cost 4 is low (1/10 of dedicated server). > So I don't understand why you claim that VPS should cost between Virtual > hosting and Dedicated hosting. In fact, according to my analysis above it > should be the most expensive solution, because costs of all type are high. Perhaps, much more to the point - the price of a good or service is determined by how much people are willing to pay for it and therefore by the precieved qualities it has. Common perceptions sees VPS as a point between virtual hosting to dedicated server and whether that has any rational base in relaity or not is not important - in reaql life in the world the price point of VPS services is as I described. Cheers, Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Codefidence. A name you can trust (tm) http://www.codefidence.com "I am Jack's Overwritten Stack Pointer" -- Hackers Club, the movie ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
