Free VPS's? Seriously?

[eSupun]

to be honest, i would rather selling the VPS with low price instead of giving it away for free

Even I do like selling it if it is owned by me But it's owned by one of my sponsors. They want to give it for free. So I act like a translator. I get the VPS's from them. Then give away them for free to members of our forum.

[Zombie]

I have no issue offering free VPS to my members, I have the funding to cover it as much as needed. Currently we have no one with enough posts to get a free vps so currently I'm not shelling out money for a node or even a vps from another company. Even when such occurs I will continue to have the funding as its really not that expensive especially if your advertising is paying well or you have paying customers for other items on the side (which I do).

[eSupun]

I have no issue offering free VPS to my members, I have the funding to cover it as much as needed. Currently we have no one with enough posts to get a free vps so currently I'm not shelling out money for a node or even a vps from another company. Even when such occurs I will continue to have the funding as its really not that expensive especially if your advertising is paying well or you have paying customers for other items on the side (which I do).

There were very bad news about you & your hosts. Are they all doing good now?

[Tiger-Matt]

Sometimes, people do it as a loss leader.

Basically thats what we are doing right now. Offering a free VPS, in exchange for ads on their "Popular" website.

In the end it may hopefully increase sales, but yes, it is making us a loss at the moment. But Loss Leaders are very common in the business now.

The one and only thing is you have to be making enough money in other areas to pay for that loss of money.

[eSupun]

Sometimes, people do it as a loss leader.

Basically thats what we are doing right now. Offering a free VPS, in exchange for ads on their "Popular" website.

In the end it may hopefully increase sales, but yes, it is making us a loss at the moment. But Loss Leaders are very common in the business now.

The one and only thing is you have to be making enough money in other areas to pay for that loss of money.

You know how they runs.

It is really good if the client gets thousands of unique users a day. Otherwise it is of course useless.

[RubyRingTech]

The same concept can be said about donating software/server mirrors. You give back to the community but at the cost of several hundred dollars a month. However what is having your name on CentOS or Ubuntu's Website worth?

[CS Squad]

The same concept can be said about donating software/server mirrors. You give back to the community but at the cost of several hundred dollars a month. However what is having your name on CentOS or Ubuntu's Website worth?

for hosting a mirror of major opensource project, which those projects is recognize by the public, it is a different case compare to what we are discussing now.

[JonnyH]

The bar shouldn't of been raised this high for the community. It's making it more and more acceptable. I remember a while back, there was a request for one in the forum section and all the person got was a thread full of flaming, what's changed from then to now? I hope it doesn't go further than this because people are expecting more and more for free. Its like walking into a store and asking for a pair of shoes free if you tell people where you got them from.

[RubyRingTech]

One of the biggest problems is that no matter if it is free or not, either a shared account, reseller, vps, or what have you. People in general a very ungrateful and only want more.
Just look at our free vps offer, I thought I clearly laid out who I would not give a free vps too, but I still got hundreds of "I want a free vps" or, "I have a brand new site with no traffic, but I need a vps." or the best was "can you donate cPanel as well."

Sadly this is just the progression of hosting, just look at the progression of shared hosting, the avg website is what under 200mbs but if you tell people that there only getting 250mbs of webspace and 5gbs of bandwidth you wouldn't get that customer.

Off topic, its sad that people will get a $5 cup of coffee everyday, but pay $5/month for quality hosting heck no!

[dmmcintyre3]

The ones eSupun and I give away are too small to use for a big site anyway. It's hard to get apache, php and mysql running at the same time even with almost no traffic.

There were very bad news about you & your hosts. Are they all doing good now?

I don't remember bad news about any of Rsmiley's hosts.

[CS Squad]

The ones eSupun and I give away are too small to use for a big site anyway. It's hard to get apache, php and mysql running at the same time even with almost no traffic.


I don't remember bad news about any of Rsmiley's hosts.

so the VPS u gave out, the size is only enough to run NGINX and depends on their skill whether they are able to use it or not?
smart move. Lol
i think a lot of them who dun have the skill to configure NGINX will need to upgrade,
hahaha

[zomex]

I would be really interested in trying a free VPS to see how it is. I can't imagine that anything free is worth using at least as far as hosting goes.

Jack

[TheHostGenie]

I would just like to add-

Check out http://xeon-network.com now (the original replier to this thread). Non-existent after a very short time. Let this be a lesson to all that we need to be very careful who we rent web space from.





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[Zombie]

I would just like to add-

Check out http://xeon-network.com now (the original replier to this thread). Non-existent after a very short time. Let this be a lesson to all that we need to be very careful who we rent web space from.





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Although I sorta understand your point, does this post really have any place in this thread? Oh and just to inform you, you can change your signature yourself rather than putting it in the post as a fake signature.

[Seraphim]

I've noted this as well. Most Free VPS offers usually are completely wiped out off the internet a few months later, or are nothing short of a sting operation in that it is only free for the first 90 days and then like $15 a month.

It's a shame that people insist on discrediting the industry with packages too good to last, but that's what we're up against in this business.