Biggest, Cheapest VPS dumping to date?

[drmike]

DigitalOcean will burn up all the VC money they can find.

Venture backing is notoriously a pain and short attention span.

What is interesting in general with them, as an outsider, is this VPS turned into cloud-like offering.

Believe me, things are going there for folks that are going to remain and grow businesses in this industry.

Question is which software stack will do enough to be valuable and how will you sell that when everyone else is?  Oh silly, roll your own.

 

[Echelon]

A lot of the race to zero is artificially created every summer with the plethora of summer hosts who refuse to do the proper research, calculations, and legwork that goes into properly budgeting, calculating profit margin, and offering a sound and reliable service that can sustain itself cashflow-wise. Furthermore, when you have those same summer hosts turning their businesses into a personal piggybank, they're set up to fail from the get-go. There's definitely no shortage of providers creating loss-leader services in hopes of converting serious users into customers of their income-generating offerings, but that being said, they have an income from other services to back their ventures.

DigitalOcean seems to be one of those services that was hyped up by the inner circle due to its' VC funding and subsequent VC contacts, but with the way it's been handling itself, I see it being knocked off of its' pedestal sooner or later.

At the end of the day, the race to zero will take victims, but the brightest ones will continue to stay the course and realize that there's no substitute for sustainable business.