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by inkaudio 4537 days ago
The elephant in the room that nobody is talking about here is they gave away too much. They could have adjusted their freemium model. Why not contact people using a lot of resources ? Let them know the best way to keep the services up at the current clip is for them to start paying.
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That's my feeling t0o. I had been using it for a few months before it shut down and was amazed at the amount I could host for free. I recommended the service to a number of people and would have been willing to pay for it if I needed to.

Also I don't get why it disappeared from one day to the next... Couldn't they massively restrict free usage? Or have some form of donation/fund raising à la Reddit Gold? people were attached to the product and it was disappointing to see it just go away /rant