I agree that with raw CPU power requirement, dedicated servers are still preferred, although at comparable price point, the dedicated servers will be too “raw” for many customers, i.e. no management, desktop hardware, etc.
I am also wondering, with CPU vendors moving towards more-cores-on-die, whether it would be more feasible to also sell CPU intensive hosting on a VPS.
For example, instead of selling 8x low-end Pentium 4-based dedicated server, you’ll get a dual Clovertown with 8 core in total. Set up CPU affinity so each VPS has its own “dedicated” CPU. It might not be that cost effective as Clovertown Xeons are relatively expensive, but when you factor in the ever-increasing power and DC cost, it might make more sense in the long run.
That should pretty much eliminate all the low-end dedicated server market, isn’t it?
Matt — thanks for stopping by.
I agree that with raw CPU power requirement, dedicated servers are still preferred, although at comparable price point, the dedicated servers will be too “raw” for many customers, i.e. no management, desktop hardware, etc.
I am also wondering, with CPU vendors moving towards more-cores-on-die, whether it would be more feasible to also sell CPU intensive hosting on a VPS.
For example, instead of selling 8x low-end Pentium 4-based dedicated server, you’ll get a dual Clovertown with 8 core in total. Set up CPU affinity so each VPS has its own “dedicated” CPU. It might not be that cost effective as Clovertown Xeons are relatively expensive, but when you factor in the ever-increasing power and DC cost, it might make more sense in the long run.
That should pretty much eliminate all the low-end dedicated server market, isn’t it?