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We are a small, London-based hosting company without plans to rapidly grow. We don't aim to offer the cheapest hosting, because there are multi-million dollar American companies that wipe the floor on that. You probably have ten or a hundred times as many customers as we do. But we've been doing this since 1998, so we must be doing something right, albeit in a niche market. Our customers are agencies for the most part.
When considering the cost of providing hosting services, it's not all about the cost of the server, but over a 3 - 5 year lifespan, it's also about the total cost of ownership. As you'll be aware, Ampere CPUs are much more efficient than the Xeon or AMD CPUs of a similar vintage (2022 in this case). Not all datacentres charge for metered power, but an increasing number do. So even if your customers don't care about servers that use less kWH, your accountant/CFO probably does. And although it may seem that Ampere is an outlier technology, it's worth bearing in mind that Amazon, Google and Microsoft all offer virtual compute instances in their clouds, some using Ampere CPUs, and some using proprietary ARM hardware technology such as Graviton which the rest of us aren't allowed to purchase on the open market.
When considering the cost of providing hosting services, it's not all about the cost of the server, but over a 3 - 5 year lifespan, it's also about the total cost of ownership. As you'll be aware, Ampere CPUs are much more efficient than the Xeon or AMD CPUs of a similar vintage (2022 in this case). Not all datacentres charge for metered power, but an increasing number do. So even if your customers don't care about servers that use less kWH, your accountant/CFO probably does. And although it may seem that Ampere is an outlier technology, it's worth bearing in mind that Amazon, Google and Microsoft all offer virtual compute instances in their clouds, some using Ampere CPUs, and some using proprietary ARM hardware technology such as Graviton which the rest of us aren't allowed to purchase on the open market.
