Many netizens, like Lao Zuo, are looking forward to various promotional activities, especially on Black Friday this year. Although Lao Zuo is busy and has no time to start VPS, he is still a little regretful. During Black Friday, Lao Zuo will also observe the dynamic of netizens and the promotion activities of businesses from time to time. For virtual hosting companies, there are still several hosting companies' activities. In addition to the intrinsic activities of EIG series businesses, this year's Hawk does not have the 2.5 discount of last year. Although the speed is average, it is enough to store useless websites.
This year's overseas VPS hosting companies seem to have a lot of promotional activities, but there are not many mainstream businesses. Although there are servers and VPS that some users need, such as OVH and Online, the mass consumer businesses we expect, such as Linode and Vultr, have not released activities. Instead, some small and medium-sized businesses have been doing one after another. For example, VirMach businesses are constantly refreshing new VPS hosting prices. Of course, there are also domestic individuals, companies and merchants who will take the opportunity to create an event hall to release the event together, but the configuration and promotion are basically the same as usual.
First, VPS host users
Although Lao Zuo is not a big consumer of VPS and servers, he has summarized a lot from his contacts and exchanges with friends and netizens over the past few years. Usually he still can't help buying some useful and useless business machine experiences, and some even forget to use them after buying them. He found that the business still has a machine after the renewal expiration reminder email. What impressed me most was that the users who really used it and played a big role basically didn't pay attention to activities, promotions and prices. They bought what they needed, and didn't pay attention even if it was cheaper.
On the contrary, every time the activity is lively and exciting, and even some users will go to buy, sometimes it is not a matter of cost, but the mentality of choosing cheap and hoping to find high cost performance impels us to buy during the promotion activities. This mentality also includes Lao Zuo. For example, during the Double 11 Festival, when he lies down and has nothing to do, he will also check whether JD has coupons. If he feels cheap, he will still go to buy a bunch of things. (When writing an article, I looked at the 99-50 towel coupon on my mobile phone and bought a bunch of towels.)
Second, expectations for cheap VPS merchants
Even rich local tycoons, including ordinary netizens like us, certainly want to buy cheap, stable, fast VPS host products. And for businesses, the starting point is also to support users to deploy based on this, but after all, cost, time, technical ability, and various factors of user management may have initially good lines, machines, and after-sales operation and maintenance services, but later gradually weakened. Just like the Linode merchants we may be familiar with, in the early years, when they used it, they basically replied to work orders within 15 minutes. Now, when Lao Zuo (laozuo. org) submits work orders, some even need to wait for several hours.
Whether it is domestic or foreign host companies, most of the starting points must be good, but it is reasonable that the stability and speed will decline in the later period due to various factors mentioned above, which is why many people will say that how good this business was before, but now it has become worse, which is normal, and it is also a time for people to be hundreds of years old.
Therefore, including Laozuo and other evaluation websites, the evaluation articles shared sometimes cannot represent the permanent validity and reliability of the merchants. It can only be said that the parameters and speed at the time of writing the articles are like this. Many times, the problems are beyond the control of the merchants. Relatively speaking, VPS is much more stable than servers and even virtual hosts. Lao Zuo also mentioned many times that if we build a website without using VPS, we should try to use the virtual host first.
Third, the reality of selecting VPS users
Whether it's the promotion of domestic merchants during the Double 11 Festival this year, or the overseas merchants' activities on Black Friday, we even see various kinds of cheap annual VPS host products from time to time. The reason why merchants are cheap is that they are cheap. Although the hardware cost has been reduced a lot, the speed, stability, after-sales, etc. still need to be taken into account. Lao Zuo certainly hopes to buy a VPS with an annual payment of $5, and then quickly respond after sales, as well as submit a work order to help solve technical problems, but this is impossible.
Since we choose cheap VPS vendors, we must bear the risks and instability brought about by cheap VPS vendors. A few months ago, many of our customers' website projects were put on the Linode VPS. Because the stability was not as good as before, the leadership had a problem, so they ordered us to move to China, which troubled us for a long time.
To sum up, it's really difficult for netizens to leave a message to Lao Zuo about whether he can recommend an excellent and affordable VPS host that is suitable for the project. I'm worried about the recommended merchants who can now, and I'm a bit nervous about the risks of poor speed and merchants running away after a few days. At any time, including myself, we also choose whether it is a business or an old business. What we can do is to pay monthly, make regular backups and observe other alternative businesses. If it is unstable or other factors, we can choose to replace it.
