How expensive hosting in china
I have to say hosting in china is much more expensive than that is in US. I just built a small website for a shenzhen company ( job hunter — willcan executive search ) last month. Whenjob done, they asked me to move their website and email box to a new server.
I recommended EBLhost to them as I want to host their site on a cpanel host ( easy for me to maintain and backup ) . When I show eblhost ’s quote to them, they were suprised by the price
“Gee, so cheap!” me panic … They told me they host their site with http://www.net.cn/ the top one hosting and domain provider in china with a space 300M, ￥1150/year(plus mailbox). My god, a space with limited managed service can be sold at $150/year. But eblhost ’s standard package ( 1G space ) with cpanel licence only $40/year.
It seems i need to learn more about china hosting market, i believe there is big space left for good overseas IDC or hosting company like hostgator etc
Richard Ford
July 1st, 2009 at 4:07 pm #
Actually, the main issue is with quality. I have visited MANY IDC’s in China and they are shocking to say the least. My company prices things the same as a gourmet hoster in the west. China has a myriad of bottom dollar feeders - but lacks options for high end or quality hosting where assistance as well as systems design and Linux expertise (or tomcat) are needed as well.
We have seen great growth - so maybe the players are already here.