[gnfargbl]

I have no complaints at all about this model. They work out the cost of providing a service, then they charge that cost plus a markup. They keep doing things that make them money. They stop doing things that don't make them money.

It seems like a straightforward way to run a business.

[dpeckett]

Yep they're the technology equivalent of a discount supermarket. Everything is commoditized to the extreme.

Breath of fresh air in the modern cloud era tbh.

[josephcsible]

I have one big complaint and one little one. The big complaint is that they didn't even give one business day's notice, and the little complaint is that they raised prices at the same time they cut what they were offering by 20x, instead of doing one at a time.

[naniwaduni]

They're giving two business days' notice for new product and three months for existing product?

[josephcsible]

December 1st's change isn't just for new customers. It's for newly-created or rescaled servers belonging to existing customers too, and it's plausible that those operations might happen a lot for some customers. And Thanksgiving and Black Friday are holidays for almost all American tech workers, so I'm not counting them as business days.

[jjeaff]

Normally that would be ok, but considering the way many systems are setup to load balance and quickly spin up new servers and spin down un-needed servers on the fly, one business day would not give you enough time to revamp your system to work with a different provider.