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TSO
January 25th, 2009, 20:35
Anyone think we'll ever see the day when these are popular?
RU-Adam
January 25th, 2009, 20:56
In order to provide a VPS with even something as little as 64-128MB of RAM you can't pack as many clients onto one server as with free hosting. And the revenues you will get from advertising won't begin to cover the allocation of those resources. I am sure a few will take the chance at it.
stuffradio
January 25th, 2009, 23:21
Why do you want to take away more profit from Hosts that barely make it as is?
Erizo
January 25th, 2009, 23:36
Well... i do think it would be popular. It sounds crazy today, but remember back in the days that "10 GB space with 50 bandwidth just for posting??? Man, that's crazy! Impossible"; and look at us now.

Technology :P Or however the **** is written ¬¬
TSO
January 26th, 2009, 16:44
Why do you want to take away more profit from Hosts that barely make it as is?

Haha, I don't plan to. Just trying to stay one step ahead and see if anyone thinks this might ever be an issue. I've watched VPS prices come down over the past few years from $40/month to $7/month - if the trend continues in the same direction, it only makes sense to wonder whether some providers might try to offer free VPS solutions.
dbbrock1
January 26th, 2009, 17:18
Free VPS is just asking for trouble. Free hosts already have enough head ache from users exploiting a normal hosting account, let a lone a VPS with full root access. Nothing but trouble if you ask me.
implihosting
January 26th, 2009, 17:52
Which it dont happen :)
Dynash
January 26th, 2009, 18:11
Who said you'd give root access?
engineerroy2008
January 28th, 2009, 00:01
Running a vps need lot of resources and time for the hosting companies, i dont think any one will provide free vps, also the bottom line is a person willing to have a vps will easily buy it
FPSGS-STAFF
February 2nd, 2009, 01:28
Free hosting is already a nightmare and resellers. VPS would be a bigger one.
jutplus
February 8th, 2009, 22:35
True nightmare. Unless you have a program where they are required to get an amout of revenue, if not, they are canceled.
NoelF1
February 9th, 2009, 10:07
dream on dude......... especially with the economy as it is. lol

unless you really make best friends with some host ... and will provide a basic one for you lol!

but it's hopeless too on the long term!
stonerocket
February 9th, 2009, 10:21
Haha, I don't plan to. Just trying to stay one step ahead and see if anyone thinks this might ever be an issue. I've watched VPS prices come down over the past few years from $40/month to $7/month - if the trend continues in the same direction, it only makes sense to wonder whether some providers might try to offer free VPS solutions.

I thought about doing it myself lastyear, the problem I could not get around was monitizing it and being able to fullfill demand for the service. I got to registering the domain though, free-vps.net which I sold on here last summer.
Technics
February 9th, 2009, 18:11
There was a provider called freexen.com

They only gave you 64mb RAM, I got an account when they launched - sometime in 2007 - couldn't tell you if it's still active as lost the welcome e-mail.

It was very fast! There trick was to offer very competative upgrades to higher plans.
[AS]Richard
February 9th, 2009, 21:48
It will. But not likely in the near future.
Technology will advance, and free hosts striving to be one step ahead will start offering free VPSes. I can imagine that in a few years VPSes will be as cheap as shared accounts.
It will undoubtedly pose a problem though, and start a trend just like resellers did.
Darknight
February 10th, 2009, 07:51
The fact that you are talking about it makes it a yes answer, its just a matter of time.
XFH-Jay
February 14th, 2009, 08:08
There are a couple companies I've seen considering the idea, but revenue won't come easily for them, at least not very quickly.

These VPS systems would have many limited features to prevent using it for spam and unnecessary activity. They would also likely find a way to do forced ads or something. It'll take time to develop this but I can see it happening soon.
macaws
February 25th, 2009, 15:33
Yeah. I do. When I plan to open my VPS datacenter in a few years, I will offer free plans, with ads of course.
Volt.Networks
February 26th, 2009, 01:00
With the way offers keep popping up and technology expanding, I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually saw free dedicated servers.

I don't see it feasible any time soon though. Technology would have to evolve quite a bit before 256 MB RAM is cheap enough to allocate for free.

Just take a look at this thread to see how quickly technology evolves: http://freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?p=1053921#post1053921
Wojtek
February 26th, 2009, 03:21
Virtuozzo allows you to oversell vps ram so they day 32gb costs 50$ it might be possible
SiberForum
February 26th, 2009, 03:34
On free accounts people try to do some bad things more then on paid accounts. In th case with free VPS what they will install there???? !!!!!!
xplhost
February 27th, 2009, 23:08
I do not see it happening anytime in the near future. Too high of costs
h0ster
March 13th, 2009, 13:52
Hmm, I don't think it's going to be an issue of price when you start to think about the security issue's. Also, VPS's may be cheap but Virtuozzo Licenses are not :)

The alternatives are far from user friendly too.