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How do web hosts really make profits?

Jul 14, 2015 2:56AM PDT

Some hosts such as iPage charge an extremely low fee for hosting services, which makes me wonder what their major profit source is?
Sorry if those terms weren't exactly technically correct LOL

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The servers changed radically over the years.
Jul 14, 2015 4:29AM PDT

I'm running into folk that are from those days you rackmounted PCs and ran web servers. This old method is fine for concept work but web hosts today use other than PCs to serve it up.

So the hardware, electrical costs and cooling have been greatly reduced as many sites are in their cloud server farm.

What this new hardware looks like is on the web. Here's one such article on Facebook's custom farm servers -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Compute_Project

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most web hosts are just a small part of the business
Jul 21, 2015 1:39PM PDT

ipage is owned by EIG which does more than offer web hosting. they make their money through paid services that support websites. Personally I will not using any EIG hosting services. They tend to buy hosting companies then downgrade their support and other features.