On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:13:23PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 18.04.2017 um 19:59 schrieb Pjotr Prins: > > there is actually a business case for something like ethical hosting. > > I also see some demand for ethical hosting, esp. for collaboration > services like mailman, chat, file-share, a simple web-site, etc. I get > questions about this quite often. But most times the people are neither > capable to setup and maintain a server at all – or they don't want to > spend the money.
We provide the actual images for free, so they could start up anywhere. > E.g. at 1blu.de you can get a vServer with Plesk admin interface for 8 € > per month. This includes KVM virtualization (or virtuozzo if you > prefer), a web-mailer, mailinglists via plesk (mailman in the > background) and a domain. > > So I don't see a business case here :-( Heh. It is actually proof that there is a business there, otherwise they would not do it. The underlying VPS costs 3/m, so their markup is 5/m. And that is without any monitoring or tuning - just a simple installation. For a 2-person business you need about 10K/m. So you can compute how many clients we need. And taking over a company mail server with webmail and mailman, I am sure we can ask 5-10K per year. You can grow in either direction. Main problem is starting up as it needs some investment. Pj.
