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james_bond_007

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Why are there blogs for sale on flippa.com whose owners pay $100 a month for a VPS.
These are just wordpress blogs with articles, why aren't they using regular wordpress hosting for $10?
180K visitors a month is not very many and this kind of hosting should handle it. (Check screens below)Screenshot (180).pngScreenshot (181).png
 
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How do you know they spend 100$, that and exactly same for content and staff. flippa is crap. Admins sell their own sites.
Also you can host 100s of sites even more on 100$ vps.
 
IM Dude said:
How do you know they spend 100$, that and exactly same for content and staff. flippa is crap. Admins sell their own sites.
Also you can host 100s of sites even more on 100$ vps.
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I thought the owners themselves indicate how much they spend to maintain their sites.
You can check this out for yourself. Virtually every blog that is out there on sale has monthly hosting costs starting at $100.
It turns out that this is misinformation.
 
Flippa has become really bad, you have to sift through thousands of websites just to find something decent.
 
$100/month is too high for hosting. I don't see any additional costs such as CDN, themes, plugins, or email services.
 
nodoma said:
$100/month is too high for hosting. I don't see any additional costs such as CDN, themes, plugins, or email services.
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That $100/mon prolly includes all of that.

Most people don't know much about hosting resources and think they need a $100 managed instance. EIG Hosting companies suck them out for this. You will easily find plans on companies like A2Hosting, Hostgator etc that have $100+ plans.

You will find a lot of content for such high ticket hosting plans. Affiliate marketers cover only these because more commision for them and a blogger who doesn't know lot about hosting tech will easily listen to them.
 
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It feels that they just set random numbers, 100/100/100...
They might probably have it on a $10 or $20 which is more than enough for such number of visits. Still also depends on the heavylifting the site has to do (I know a forum owner with bbPress forum that is spending around $100 for such volume of visits in his forum, but I have to say that the activity on that forum, regardless of such amount of visits, is extremely massive, with thousands of posts per day from recurring users that a are a big portion of the total monthyl visits)

So you must take each case individually, still as I said those 100/100/100 feel randomly allocated.
 
SirLouen said:
It feels that they just set random numbers, 100/100/100...
They might probably have it on a $10 or $20 which is more than enough for such number of visits. Still also depends on the heavylifting the site has to do (I know a forum owner with bbPress forum that is spending around $100 for such volume of visits in his forum, but I have to say that the activity on that forum, regardless of such amount of visits, is extremely massive, with thousands of posts per day from recurring users that a are a big portion of the total monthyl visits)

So you must take each case individually, still as I said those 100/100/100 feel randomly allocated.
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$100 for a forum makes sense. Lots of activity and dynamic features to account for. For a static wordpress site that only shows articles with no comments or other stuff tho? 100$ would easily handle 10million visitors and more if configured well. Overkill for those 100k numbers
 
Ashk881 said:
100$ would easily handle 10million visitors and more if configured well.
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Not everyone cares to configure it well. Still yes, $100 is a lot but still, for such traffic having a $50 VPS is not too weird if poorly configured, but as I 've said it looks very random numbers I would consider it and if you buy you could always tweak this kind of things.
 
The number does seem odd. Why is it 100$ exactly?

But this could make sense for a high traffic website. Let’s say they are using. 4-5 vpses as load balancers and a separate vps for database and redis servers (although I am not sure if wp supports redis or there is an adapter).

But then again, I would say the number is simply wrong because of that exact 100$ figure.
 
james_bond_007 said:
$100 a month for a VPS
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I guess they make good money out of their blogs to cover that cost.
Lack of knowledge maybe with regards to hosting servers or maybe because they will sneak in their affiliate link to the VPS provider.
Or maybe they are the VPS provider themselves and would recommend it to the buyer.
 
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