Comments on: Are Life Time Hosting Plans Feasible?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:28:40 +0000

i think its not feasible, many hosting company have bad service and have lot downtime

By: TheUIO

TheUIO — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:39:35 +0000

Is it wrong to try having an unlimited income ? I don’t think so.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:11:32 +0000

2-3 year prepay plans are not the same as lifetime and are win-win for customer and hosting company. Customer gets a good discount on hosting company gets revenue up front and predictable tenancy. The best hosting companies sell additional services to these long-term subscribers because they are already hooked in for a few years.

The lifetime ones are suspect... especially ones offering proxies or other known high bandwidth / high system utilization. Many hosting providers come and go within a couple years, or do not upgrade servers for lifetime tenants. After 2-3 years you need that hardware refresh but don't get it. They will offer a fee to move you to a new server... i.e. $25 or $50. The premise with lifetime is if you can sell X number of tenants then you can afford Y servers + bandwidth. The problem is they only calculate the math out for 3-4 years.

By: scotty

scotty — Thu, 10 May 2007 08:35:25 +0000

Hi Matt,

I think it would be much harder on virtual private server than shared hosting, especially when you look at the life time of a client, their requirement, their resource usage pattern, etc. I think I wrote this article in response to those nay-sayers that always equates "life-time hosting" to fishy business practise -- which I don't think is the case.

Although if you change "always" to "mostly", then I will agree with them :)

By: slicematt

slicematt — Thu, 10 May 2007 02:25:27 +0000

Hmmm - we've thought about this stuff once in a while too ;)

It just seems too good to be true IMO. Someone will end up unhappy.

By: Software developer

Software developer — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:40:44 +0000

Yes life time services can be offered as an added business value to your customers. We offer life time warranty for all our software products for instance.