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Re: $35.00 a month MV hosting service, RE: Inexpensive ISP



******    message to minivend-users from Jason Korkin <jkorkin@korksoft.com>     ******

Good point Jerry...

    Jason Korkin.


Jerry Bransom wrote:

> ******    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.
>
> *****
> 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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