I used to read lots of threads about summertime hosting. With schools being closed, seemingly until next September, do you see a resurgence of kiddie hosts?
Prediction:
We're going to see more hosts go under in the next few months. I'll be happy to be wrong, but I think that what we're going to see instead of the typical summer hosting by teens thing is going to be hosts going under , massively so.
The reason for this will be twofold:
A> cPanel's pricing
B> Economy
My assessment is a bit different.
I think that the entry barrier is more difficult today for anyone, not just the kids. Looking at how the hosting solutions evolved to complicated cloud infrastructures, CDN products, self-hosted services like SquareSpace, most will shy away because you either have to compete on money/budget or knowledge/technology (which leads to money in the first place).
Starting with a simple shared/reseller package today might be good for a few business-card-website clients, but not enough to scale. The cost of hosting has become so small that most of the same business-card clients might just sign-up with a large established provider, relying on a more reliable cloud infrastructure, than with a simple shared hosting plan hosted on a single server.
some cases yes, but what you get with ebay is kiddie hosts will purchase a reseller plan like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Reseller...mited-accounts-4-99-year-Instant/113973936550 and then they will just resell shared plans on ebay (without having a website) for next to nothing and call themselves hosts. But you ask these a host related question they dont have a clue and if anything goes wrong they just vanish. i once asked one of these hosts a simple question what are the DNS settings and do you provide dedicated IP and they reply i got what is DNS and what is a dedicated IP.
Let's be realistic. eBay [probably and hopefully] represents the tiniest share of all global hosting sales, so it is probably not a leading reason for... anything really.
Additionally, if these kiddies sell hosting for $1-2/year, how much time do you think they need to hussle for to get anywhere worth their time? It's minimal damage all around.
What situation are talking about? And what do you mean by client's asking for a vacation from hosting?No, I didn’t have such situations so that the client requested a vacation for the hosting.