Comments on: So … What Does SoftLayer Do? http://blog.softlayer.com/2011/so-what-does-softlayer-do/ A Behind the Scenes Look at the Best Hosting Provider in the World Wed, 22 May 2013 17:40:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Kevin Hazard http://blog.softlayer.com/2011/so-what-does-softlayer-do/comment-page-1/#comment-18990 Kevin Hazard Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:26:49 +0000 http://blog.softlayer.com/2011/#comment-18990 Hi Pat, Thanks for the comment! The $139/mo price point is for a full dedicated server. Depending on what you're looking for in a virtual server, a better alternative for you would likely be the "CloudLayer Computing" option which is a cloud server (also called a virtual server) that starts at $50/mo: http://www.softlayer.com/byoc Is that more along the lines of what you're expecting? The premium for a dedicated server is directly proportional to the power that server provides. Hi Pat, Thanks for the comment! The $139/mo price point is for a full dedicated server. Depending on what you’re looking for in a virtual server, a better alternative for you would likely be the “CloudLayer Computing” option which is a cloud server (also called a virtual server) that starts at $50/mo: http://www.softlayer.com/byoc

Is that more along the lines of what you’re expecting? The premium for a dedicated server is directly proportional to the power that server provides.

]]> By: Pat Palmer http://blog.softlayer.com/2011/so-what-does-softlayer-do/comment-page-1/#comment-18889 Pat Palmer Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:46:44 +0000 http://blog.softlayer.com/2011/#comment-18889 I checked out the SoftLayer website. I love that prices are prominent up front there, but I find that the cost of a virtual server (if I understand it correctly as $139.xx per month) is really too high. For a solution in which the customer has to do (or "gets to do") all their own system administration, I find that spending $1500+ per year to rent a server is ridiculous, given that I can rent a perfectly good hosted web server and database for $240 per year AND I don't have to do my own updates and sysadmin. Bottom line: I would love to be a customer--for a more reasonable rate. I checked out the SoftLayer website. I love that prices are prominent up front there, but I find that the cost of a virtual server (if I understand it correctly as $139.xx per month) is really too high. For a solution in which the customer has to do (or “gets to do”) all their own system administration, I find that spending $1500+ per year to rent a server is ridiculous, given that I can rent a perfectly good hosted web server and database for $240 per year AND I don’t have to do my own updates and sysadmin.

Bottom line: I would love to be a customer–for a more reasonable rate.

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