Hosting Fees Getting Outrageous?

Has anybody noticed the hosting fees rising into the stratosphere lately?
I've been hosted by WebHost4Life for awhile which has been the low-cost
leader (using the term "leader" loosely of course).

They and other Windows host providers dropped fees drastically to match the
ridiculously low $4.95/month accounts once Microsoft licensing changed
policy to allow host providers to pay by the month for only what they needed
web site by web site so to speak --BUT-- now with virtual servers and IIS7
ASP.NET 3.5 and the need to use WPF/Silverlight fees for basic functionality
jumped from $9.95/month to $11.95/month for ASP.NET 2.0 w/SQL2005 which is
still affordable but get this: $59.95/month base rate for IIS7 ASP.NET 3.5!

Who is going to be able to afford these high fees for a startup? There's no
f*cking way I can sell a customer on the premise of Silverlight with hosting
STARTING at $59.95/month and this is from the historically lowest of the
lowest fee providers at that.

Re: Hosting Fees Getting Outrageous?

On Jan 18, 8:48=A0am, "clintonG" wrote:
> Has anybody noticed the hosting fees rising into the stratosphere lately?
> I've been hosted by WebHost4Life for awhile which has been the low-cost
> leader (using the term "leader" loosely of course).
>
> They and other Windows host providers dropped fees drastically to match th=
e
> ridiculously low $4.95/month accounts once Microsoft licensing changed
> policy to allow host providers to pay by the month for only what they need=
ed
> web site by web site so to speak --BUT-- now with virtual servers and IIS7=

> ASP.NET 3.5 and the need to use WPF/Silverlight fees for basic functionali=
ty
> jumped from $9.95/month to $11.95/month for ASP.NET 2.0 w/SQL2005 which is=

> still affordable but get this: $59.95/month base rate for IIS7 ASP.NET 3.5=
!
>
> Who is going to be able to afford these high fees for a startup? There's n=
o
> f*cking way I can sell a customer on the premise of Silverlight with hosti=
ng
> STARTING at $59.95/month and this is from the historically lowest of the
> lowest fee providers at that.


Go ask Scott. Nicely. Really.
weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

He owns all the technologies and hosting relationships that you are
asking about.


//David
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