Kadiras pricing was completely incompatible with the Meteor app I work on as per host pricing is hard to swallow when you only have a dozen or two users on each

Kadiras pricing was completely incompatible with the Meteor app I work on as per host pricing is hard to swallow when you only have a dozen or two users on each host (eg: Kidara would have cost us ~$1/end user/month). Per host pricing is nice when you have hundreds/thousands of users per host. Our software gets installed at each customer site/ship at sea due to high frequency of internet outages or wide variations in bandwidth (ships at sea have very limited connections). While each customer might have hundreds of users, it ends up to be a dozen or two users per host. This is also why Meteor is a good fit as performance doesn't really matter when the software only sees a dozen users per host. While they only billed per nominal host (its approx: host hours/hours in month) so corner cases are easy, we still have a ridiculous users per host ratio due to the nature of our app. I'm a big fan of services that have an option to charge per GB of telemetry as it can cover use cases like ours without much fuss. Its still sad to see them go though, and its nice to see them softly shutdown rather than the typical "we are pulling the plug tomorrow".