{"id":8,"date":"2006-11-28T21:51:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T02:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/dedicated-server-pricing\/common-cents-getting-more-server-for-less-money\/"},"modified":"2018-11-06T01:32:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T06:32:55","slug":"common-cents-getting-more-server-for-less-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/2006\/11\/common-cents-getting-more-server-for-less-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit of common sense that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve probably heard at least once or twice: You get what you pay for<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Sounds logical, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? If you pay more, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re bound to get more. The problem with common sense is that, though it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s certainly common by definition, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always make good business sense.
\nIn other words, paying less doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always mean getting<\/em> less, particularly when it comes to technologies like dedicated servers. So how can some dedicated server providers offer prices as low as $30 per month, while others charge two, or even three, times as much? To understand that, you need to understand economies of scale. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a snippet from Econ 101.<\/p>\n

Econ 101
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A nationwide discount grocery chain buys its coffee and donuts by the ton. The mom-and-pop grocery store down the street purchases them by the pound. When it comes time to negotiate the price for these morning delicacies, the chain store since it buys so much coffee and so many donuts, is able to demand a lower price per unit and pass the savings on to its customers.
\nCustomers, who always want to pay as little as possible, respond to those low prices and purchase more and more of their coffee and donuts from the discount chain, which, in turn, allows the chain to lower prices even further. And that, dear students, is an economy of scale.
\nSimply put, the big guys get all the breaks. If we replace \u00e2\u20ac\u0153discount grocery chain?? with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dedicated server provider?? and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153coffee and donuts?? with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bandwidth and hardware,?? we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll begin to see where those $30 per month servers really come from.<\/p>\n

No mystery here\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
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Dedicated server providers take advantage of economies of scale when they buy bandwidth in large blocks. They take advantage of it when they scoop up loads of powerful hardware in big batches. As the provider grows, it can afford to hire the best and brightest staff to maintain and support its servers, which leads to stellar uptime \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as much as 99.999% in the best cases.
\nThis, of course, creates greater and greater satisfaction among the dedicated server provider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s customers, and, as word spreads, more and more customers in total. As the roster of happy clients grows, the provider can afford to drop its prices even lower.
\nSo how can the low-cost dedicated server providers offer powerful hardware, superior support and near-perfect uptime for less than the price of a daily coffee and donut, you ask?
\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really just common sense.<\/p>\n

ServerPronto offers affordable and secure dedicated servers<\/a> and cloud<\/a> hosting service\u00c2\u00a0packages.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes truisms are just flat out false. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always get what you pay for. Sometimes you get much more. Find out how discount dedicated server providers crumble this ageless clich\u00c3\u00a9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[123,17,112,22,39,18],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dedicated-server-pricing","tag-cloud","tag-dedicated-server","tag-hosting","tag-server","tag-serverpronto","tag-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3080,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/3080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}