Dear sir/madam, I am proposing this theory itself for your kind consideration. The reseller purchases a large VPS or dedicated server from upstream provider, then slices it and marks up 300% to 500% for end users. The end user does not manage the server itself, only the website. Is this not Software as a Service in its purest form? The cloud merely rebranded this model with API access and metered billing. The concept itself existed in 1996, before Salesforce or AWS came into picture. I request your learned opinions on this matter only. Kindly share your thoughts.
Shared hosting resellers are the original SaaS
Complexity is a tax
The cloud did not invent renting
It only made it invisible
Actually the Application Service Providers of 1999 predate both, oder? Shared Hosting offered Infrastructure not Software, so the Taxonomy is wrong. SaaS requires Application Layer Abstraction. Resellers provided System Administration only. You are describing Managed Hosting with extra Steps, not SaaS. The Markup Model itself is older than Computing, oder?
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