I was just thinking about this. Slicehost hasn't changed their prices in the 3ish years we've been with them, but the price of computers and memory has dropped considerably.
As their profit margin expands, I hope Slicehost will lower their prices, too (and if they don't I suspect that'll be a window for someone else).
They're still growing really fast. Lowering their prices, besides reducing profit, would make them have to work harder at scaling. I don't think they're going to do it until growth levels off.
Whether it's cheap or not is dependent on the amount of data you transfer, at $.10 / G they will charge you $33 / month for a continuous 1Mbit link (328 G of data traffic).
If you're a smaller user then the price is much higher still.
For comparison, buy bandwidth in bulk and you can expect to end somewhere between $3 and $5.
As long as those bandwidth prices don't come down I can't make the figures work for web stuff, unless it is something that periodically needs a large number of machines. That's when it makes sense.
[+] [-] jobenjo|16 years ago|reply
As their profit margin expands, I hope Slicehost will lower their prices, too (and if they don't I suspect that'll be a window for someone else).
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[+] [-] jacquesm|16 years ago|reply
If you're a smaller user then the price is much higher still.
For comparison, buy bandwidth in bulk and you can expect to end somewhere between $3 and $5.
As long as those bandwidth prices don't come down I can't make the figures work for web stuff, unless it is something that periodically needs a large number of machines. That's when it makes sense.
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