Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
by bluedino on Thursday April 17, 2014 @10:32AM
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Probably pretty big - look at how popular tiny VPS providers are.
A lot people don't need an entire server and just need a shell, some file space, and a small web/app server.
Even just 10 years ago it was very expensive to get a non-shared hosting account. Go back a little further than that, and you were elite if you had a real server out there somewhere. Back then a low-spec co-located server was $300 a month. And let's not even talk about how expensive bandwidth was!
A lot people don't need an entire server and just need a shell, some file space, and a small web/app server.
Even just 10 years ago it was very expensive to get a non-shared hosting account. Go back a little further than that, and you were elite if you had a real server out there somewhere. Back then a low-spec co-located server was $300 a month. And let's not even talk about how expensive bandwidth was!