50$ for monthly hosting? Is that reasonable?

[blaze]

I am paying $50 for monthly VPS (virtual server hosting) and I have had at least 3 days of downtime in the last two months.

Is this reasonable? Please don't post any specifics, I am just wondering if I should try to get a better deal or try to pay more for more reliable hosting.

I have seen raid-array hosting for $149 with a 24 hour hardware SLA and the network looks exceedingly great.

I could pay $99 for single drive hosting, but with a 24 hour SLA this seems like I probably won't be further ahead from my unstable $50 VPS.

Again don't post specific companies or sticky me for URLs as I won't give any. This is not an invitation for ads, just trying to get a general consensus of what people think is the reasonable rate for good, reliable dedicated hosting.

PS bandwidth util is about 8 GB / month.

[soapystar]

how can three days downtime be reasonable even if it was free?

[Shak]

$50 is a decent enough price.

the downtime is NOT?

shak

[blaze]

Well, for 1 hour of downtime every 2 months .. what do people expect to pay?

[ControlEngineer]

As has been pointed out, the downtime is unreasonable, even if the hosting is almost free.

Other than that, it depends upon what you get for your $50/mo. and on what services you need.

For me, I would consider it reasonable if they threw in free driveway snow plowing (I live in the cold North), perhaps grass mowing in the summer. But for just web hosting, it seems a little high unless it comes with a good package of services.

[blaze]

there are no services, it's dedicated hosting.

It seems reasonable to me. I found a website where I can test from 35 international network clients for 5$ to determine it's network performance and it appears to be pretty good.

The downtime is annoying, however I have set up a backup system that I can quickly switch to now, so no big deal.