{"id":1655,"date":"2014-07-10T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2014-07-10T17:33:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:33:01","slug":"shared-hostings-revenue-per-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/shared-hostings-revenue-per-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared hostings, revenue per server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I continue trying to understand how hosting companies earn money with their services. I cannot calculate the TCO per server or per user, but I can do some figures to calculate the <strong>revenue per server:<\/strong> I have the prices on the web page and I can know the number of customers for a given server (neighbors).<\/p>\n<p>I have looked for the benchmark recognized by the market and there are 2 key measures used: net revenue per square foot and net revenue per server. The second one can be found in the results report of the public companies;\u00a0 so I can compare my exercise with the market!!<\/p>\n<p>With it, I wanted to understand how much revenue per server earn each one of the providers that I work with. There are some assumptions I had to do, but the result are so much interesting.<a href=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Revenue-per-server-analysis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1656\" src=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Revenue-per-server-analysis.jpg\" alt=\"Revenue-per-server-analysis\" width=\"481\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Revenue-per-server-analysis.jpg 481w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Revenue-per-server-analysis-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Revenue-per-server-analysis-439x300.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a>Some things to think about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rackspace declared on Second Quarter 2013 a revenue per server of 969\u20ac.<\/li>\n<li>I have to continue analyzing this, the information I have does not make sense a lot. The prices are too different.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s easy to understand how companies with cheap prices hosts more customers in the same server.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s almost impossible to calculate the Operating income.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue trying to understand how hosting companies earn money with their services. 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