Comments on: What if Google offered free hosting? http://blog.hosting365.com/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:17:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: kk http://blog.hosting365.com/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-26397 kk Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:45:31 +0000 http://www.hosting365.com/blog/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-26397 hi................................ hi…………………………..

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]]> By: Ambrand http://blog.hosting365.com/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1411 Ambrand Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:30:03 +0000 http://www.hosting365.com/blog/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1411 even if your competitors, google or otherwise, offered free hosting or the decent kind with databases etc, I;d stay with 365 for your control panel alone, I know its only a turnkey hsphere, but its so logical, please never change control panels even if your competitors, google or otherwise, offered free hosting or the decent kind with databases etc, I;d stay with 365 for your control panel alone, I know its only a turnkey hsphere, but its so logical, please never change control panels

]]> By: Ed Byrne http://blog.hosting365.com/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1385 Ed Byrne Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:48:17 +0000 http://www.hosting365.com/blog/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1385 Hi Chris, I totally agree with everything you said there! GoogleApps et al are a blessing in disguise for the hosting industry ... educating the market is an expensive marketing task ... so if Google can do it, and then a small percentage of people realise they need more professional services and pay for them - then great! Free Trials are also a great way to get people on board to see the value of your service - we do 30 day automatic-money-back plans, which aren't as good as free trials I agree, but we also do a free blog plan, which lets you try out our hosting service - control panels, reliability and support service. Applications are the way to go ... we are moving that way in here, as are other hosters, and from an industry perspective, Google, MS and Amazon heating up the competition is only a good thing for the consumer, and ultimately, I believe for hosting365 too! Hi Chris,

I totally agree with everything you said there!

GoogleApps et al are a blessing in disguise for the hosting industry … educating the market is an expensive marketing task … so if Google can do it, and then a small percentage of people realise they need more professional services and pay for them - then great!

Free Trials are also a great way to get people on board to see the value of your service - we do 30 day automatic-money-back plans, which aren’t as good as free trials I agree, but we also do a free blog plan, which lets you try out our hosting service - control panels, reliability and support service.

Applications are the way to go … we are moving that way in here, as are other hosters, and from an industry perspective, Google, MS and Amazon heating up the competition is only a good thing for the consumer, and ultimately, I believe for hosting365 too!

]]> By: Chris Byrne http://blog.hosting365.com/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1382 Chris Byrne Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:11:55 +0000 http://www.hosting365.com/blog/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1382 Ed There's always been free versions of commercial solutions, but that comes at a price -which has been well discussed elsewhere- Why buy SAP when I believe that I can get the same result with free applications? The problem, is with the "I believe" bit, of course. What Googleapps does for the that marketplace is to educate and validate. More and more people are going to try the free versions (I did, when gpages came out) which allows you to see the possibilities and achieve buy-in. They won't necessarily stay with the free version (I didn't) and will be well placed to learn why a commercial solution is better. For some years I have been telling hosters to start adding applications to their portfolios and have been very surprised at the low takeup. With Googleapps, that will change for sure. Chris. Ed

There’s always been free versions of commercial solutions, but that comes at a price -which has been well discussed elsewhere- Why buy SAP when I believe that I can get the same result with free applications? The problem, is with the “I believe” bit, of course.

What Googleapps does for the that marketplace is to educate and validate. More and more people are going to try the free versions (I did, when gpages came out) which allows you to see the possibilities and achieve buy-in. They won’t necessarily stay with the free version (I didn’t) and will be well placed to learn why a commercial solution is better.

For some years I have been telling hosters to start adding applications to their portfolios and have been very surprised at the low takeup. With Googleapps, that will change for sure.

Chris.

]]> By: anon y mous http://blog.hosting365.com/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1291 anon y mous Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:12:55 +0000 http://www.hosting365.com/blog/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1291 Google are doing hosting: Google Apps for Your Domain, an expansion of the Gmail for Your Domain service that launched in February 2006, currently includes Gmail web email, the Google Talk instant messaging and voice calling service, collaborative calendaring through Google Calendar, and web page design, publishing and hosting via Google Page Creator. Domain administrators use a simple web-based control panel to manage their user account list, set up aliases and distribution lists, and enable the services they want for their domain. End users with accounts that have been set up by their administrator simply browse to customized login pages on any web-connected computer. The service scales easily to accommodate growing user bases and storage needs while drastically reducing maintenance costs. Google are doing hosting:

Google Apps for Your Domain, an expansion of the Gmail for Your Domain
service that launched in February 2006, currently includes Gmail web
email, the Google Talk instant messaging and voice calling service,
collaborative calendaring through Google Calendar, and web page design,
publishing and hosting via Google Page Creator. Domain administrators
use a simple web-based control panel to manage their user account list,
set up aliases and distribution lists, and enable the services they
want for their domain. End users with accounts that have been set up
by their administrator simply browse to customized login pages on any
web-connected computer. The service scales easily to accommodate
growing user bases and storage needs while drastically reducing
maintenance costs.

]]> By: Ed Byrne http://blog.hosting365.com/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1233 Ed Byrne Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:00:38 +0000 http://www.hosting365.com/blog/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1233 Works out at 290 dollars a month for a server with similar specs to our Value Series that costs 59.95 a month. Usage based model is interesting though ... we've often talked about virtualised infrastructure and usage based pricing ... will be interesting to see where this goes. Like Google Base though ... it's really only for techies. Works out at 290 dollars a month for a server with similar specs to our Value Series that costs 59.95 a month.

Usage based model is interesting though … we’ve often talked about virtualised infrastructure and usage based pricing … will be interesting to see where this goes. Like Google Base though … it’s really only for techies.

]]> By: anon http://blog.hosting365.com/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1232 anon Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:55:30 +0000 http://www.hosting365.com/blog/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-1232 http://www.maluke.com/blog/amazon-elastic-compute-cloud-ec2 http://www.maluke.com/blog/amazon-elastic-compute-cloud-ec2

]]> By: JR http://blog.hosting365.com/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-904 JR Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:05:46 +0000 http://www.hosting365.com/blog/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-904 Agreed about the need that professional firms need that dedicated support but its not a million miles from Googles current activity. They already provide successful support and sales resources for their adwords division. My opinion is that with this foundation, building a support and sales team dedicated to hosting would be quite a natural extension to their current activities and not totally impossible to imagine if coupled with their existing free analytics service. Agreed about the need that professional firms need that dedicated support but its not a million miles from Googles current activity.

They already provide successful support and sales resources for their adwords division. My opinion is that with this foundation, building a support and sales team dedicated to hosting would be quite a natural extension to their current activities and not totally impossible to imagine if coupled with their existing free analytics service.

]]> By: Ed Byrne http://blog.hosting365.com/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-902 Ed Byrne Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:20:38 +0000 http://www.hosting365.com/blog/2006/08/10/what-if-google-offered-free-hosting/#comment-902 I don't think it's arrogant (of course!) that a professional service firm thinks people will always pay for there professional services. Sorry ... I should probably explain better what I mean, we consider ourselves to be a business solution provider - rather than a pure infrastructure one. On the infrastrucutre side, sure Google et al could offer entry level hosting to SME's - but would they offer the level of service and solutions, or just provide the platform? The other side is, of course Google, or any major corporation could go into the hosting business .. but it would be a large departure from their business model .. and professional firms require dedicated support and sales resources, not just free online service and support forums. I don’t think it’s arrogant (of course!) that a professional service firm thinks people will always pay for there professional services. Sorry … I should probably explain better what I mean, we consider ourselves to be a business solution provider - rather than a pure infrastructure one.

On the infrastrucutre side, sure Google et al could offer entry level hosting to SME’s - but would they offer the level of service and solutions, or just provide the platform?

The other side is, of course Google, or any major corporation could go into the hosting business .. but it would be a large departure from their business model .. and professional firms require dedicated support and sales resources, not just free online service and support forums.

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