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Originally Posted by rymax99 I'd expect that you're an idiot if you start a GSP specifically for SA:MP. There's no market or money in it. Seriously, maybe 5 years ago I could've forgave you for such a sketchy business plan, but now, the numbers are clear, even if at least 60% of people hosting servers of any size(that you'd be able to charge more than $5/m for) didn't use VPS's/dedicated servers, you'd still be have problems making any money. If you're still not convinced, lets break down the numbers here. Lets say you host 5% of all SA:MP servers online, right now there are 4,280 servers online, 5% of that is 214. Lets say of those 214 servers, you make a PROFIT(including taxes, PayPal fees, etc.) of $5/m. Being reasonable, no one that knows anything about the GSP/hosting market is going to pay more than $5/m for the convenience of having you manage the back-end of their server, simply because SA:MP is so easy to host and requires so few resources. 214*5 = $1,070 USD/m. You can't make a living off of that, much less pay for the servers to host said servers. Even if 5% of all SA:MP server owners paid you $15/m, and you pocketed 100% of that, it'd only be $3,120. If this post hasn't convinced you that you'd be out of your mind to try and start a host specifically marketed towards SA:MP is a outright stupid idea, then I don't know what will. For reference here, for $10/m, you can buy a solid VPS that can host SA:MP without issues, along with a TS server or even in some cases a web server.

$3.120 are so few unless you live here in Greece. Sorry but had to mention that LMAO!