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A little tangential but why would the author be spending $1500 a year to host a blog. Is IBM also his hosting provider?

He seems to use dedicated server from The Planet: http://geotool.flagfox.net/?ip=174.122.8.18&host=program...

Their prices are not cheap: https://www.theplanet.com/servers/Default.aspx?dedicated-hos...

I'm happy for the guy, that he is able to support such lifestyle being well-paid for promoting expensive enterprise product, I'm afraid he's out of touch with much of the world. In this world many people run blogs and start startups with hosting costing <$100 a year.

There is a whole site Low End Box, http://www.lowendbox.com/about/ dedicated to listing hosting deals for less than USD$7 per month, itself currently running on $35.88/Year 80MB hosting (previous 512MB was not low end enough) http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/moved-again-to-quickwebmicrovp... http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/quickweb-35-88year-80mb-xen-vp.... There are instructions for configuring sites to run on 64MB hosting. http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-site... So I don't consider $100/year hosting a squeeze.

I host several semi-popular blogs, plus a few other sites on a server in the cloud (with The Planet). I get a few million hits a year, and pay $135 a month to keep it up.

I don't think it's fair to say it costs you more than $1500 to host one blog when in fact it's a series of sites. It gives people the wrong impression of how much the database costs relative to hosting.

(As an aside, I run a site that gets over two million hits A DAY, I pay nothing for my database, and about $100/mo for hosting.)

> I don't think it's fair to say it costs you more than $1500 to host one blog when in fact it's a series of sites.

I agree. That was poor wording on my part.

> and about $100/mo for hosting

Who do you host with?

I have a dedicated server I bought myself years ago and host it at a coloc in downtown Toronto.

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