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by N8works 2976 days ago
during these days my company was in a data center in Los Angeles next to "Web hosting for life" a company who's business model was based on a single upfront payment that got you hosting for "life". (Whatever that means). Their secret sauce was cages full of 19" Telco racks with shelves filled with motherboards, power supplies, and hard drives. No cases. Some of the hard drives were zip tied to the shelves. We'd tour potential customers through the data center and say "this is what shared hosting gets you, what if your site was bring served from that "server" with it's hard drive hanging by a broken zip tie?" It was a great sales technique.