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Re: $35.00 a month MV hosting service, RE: Inexpensive ISP
****** message to minivend-users from Jerry Bransom <jbransom@pcpc.data1.com> ******
Well said....
Who can even stay in business at $35 PER MONTH given the extreme amount of
work involved. And besides, once you allow someone access to the secure
server, you have additional worries.. definitely more than $35 a month in
worry...
Our sites start at $50 per month, we maintain them, customer can upload a
file to update their site but we oversee all of it. Setup is extra. Seems
to be working that way.
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Jerry Bransom CalMarket.COM
Sr. Programmer Analyst The California Online Marketplace
Kern Internet Services Bakersfield California
support@data1.com www.kern.com
> We offer minivend as part of an overall integrated publishing
> package that **starts** at approx $150 a month or is negotiated
> on an annual basis. It includes quite a bit more than minivend:
> flavors of SQL, our page builders, registered users, profiled
> email lists, tie in to off-site gateway boxes, and soon
> even linux POS. It includes maintenance of same. Of late
> we've added regular "development/marketing" meetings with
> clients pushing the 'Net. Consequently our business is
> increasingly local, say 1.5 hrs drive max because we do lots
> of hands on.
>
> I'd guess one might provide shell accounts capable of running
> minivend for $20-$35 a month with some limits to protect abuse.
> That could not include maintenance or upgrades to new versions
> or any `support'. We have, however, decided to go the full
> service route instead; that's just our business model. Over
> the past couple of years the do-it-yourself clients who would
> be interested have either asked us to take over their sites
> or have moved on to the inexpensive web-hosting farms.
>
> $.02
>
> cfm
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Thompson-Jordan wrote:
> >
> > > ****** message to minivend-users from "Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com> ******
> > >
> > > I used Altavista to search for "minivend" and there were no ISPs advertising
> > > Minivend that came up as hits.
> >
> > hmm, watching MV grow, I always wondered about why so many people
> > are using and downloading MV and so few gave openly credit to the
> > free package they are using and even less were announcing they
> > offer the package as part of their hosting services on their
> > server.
> >
> > I am even more amazed to watch the world of virtual ISPs and web
> > designers being quite generous to themselves in using a no-cost
> > software package, but being so greedy to not even consider a
> > hosting service for more than $35.00 a month and certainly at the
> > same time asking for a nice hourly consultant fee for building
> > something with that no-cost package (AND asking a lot of questions
> > about how to do that here at the same time).
> >
> > Apparently, you all consider using and offering MV to your
> > customer as a means of an income, on the other hand you can't
> > even invest into an adequately priced hosting service, although
> > by now every one knows how crucial it is to set up MV on your
> > server correctly.
> >
> > How often do you sit down with a friend and a pizza and a beer
> > for $35.00 ?
> >
> > Really strange ...
> >
> > And to the guy who throws around scare tactics about how much
> > CPU time MV could take, believe me, others know how much it takes,
> > and because of that they might be worth more than a couple of
> > meager dollars.
> >
> > Not meant to be a personal attack to anyone, just a viewpoint
> > from someone who apparently "is not getting it".
> >
> > Birgitt Funk
> >
> >
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