Is there demand for semi-dedicated/high-end vps?

Hi,
we're wondering if there would be a market for some kind of semi-dedicated server or high-end VPS, where the main server is shared only by 4 people.

Something like:
2 cores @ 3.10GHz (shared by two) with Turboboost to 3.40GHz.
4 GB DDR3 dedicated
450 GB HDD (RAID 1) OR 50 GB SSD (no raid).
100 Mbit (shared by 4) with 5 TB traffic per month
3 Dedicated IPs
60 $

Would you buy it? Why yes? Why not?

 

Yes there definitely is, but I'm not sure that your definition of "high-end" is really high end. Too much emphasis on disk-space, and not enough on disk performance, RAM, and the host CPUs. High-end VPSs need high-end hardware with hardware raid controller with battery backup, super-fast disks, tons of fast ram, and the best CPU's you can afford with 8 or 12 logical cores per CPU.

When people start to look at higher-end, and much more expensive VPSs, then they tend to be a little more switched on about their needs. At the upper-end of VPS specification the prices start to get into dedicated server territory, and often you could get a dedicated server with a similar specification for less money. But that's the weird thing, a dedicated server with the same specification as a high-end VPS may have poorer performance than the VPS because so much depends upon the host hardware and how it's set-up.

At this level they buy VPSs for their advantages over a single dedicated server such as much faster recovery from failure (particularly when it's combined with a good backup strategy), easier to upgrade hardware or to move to new hardware (measured in minutes - with no downtime at all), easier to cluster, better central management. Almost 60% of our dedicated server customers ask us to only install a hypervisor on the hardware then they set-up eveything on a VPS on their hardware.

So, yes there is definitely a market for it, but you've got to be switched-on about what customers are looking for, why they would prefer a VPS over a dedicated server (even if it is more expensive), and for it to be genuinely "high-end" and not a parody of a cheap dedicated server.