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> Pay as you use. Hourly rate, monthly billing. Nah. I pay monthly, include monthly pricing. I can probably set up an nginx/varnish instance faster than I can
by corobo 10y ago
> Pay as you use. Hourly rate, monthly billing.
Nah. I pay monthly, include monthly pricing. I can probably set up an nginx/varnish instance faster than I can calculate the monthly cost when you're billing by the hour.
- falcolas 10y agoYou aren't the audience, then. These offerings are for people who don't want to manage an nginx/varnish stack. One thing that is nice is the automatic failover (of the routing stack) when a VM or datacenter goes down.
- corobo 10y agoI'm not personally no, the company I work for is - that's why I looked. Essentially what I'm after is Digitalocean's load balancing per-domain rather than per-infrastructure If it was my own stuff I'd just do it myself, work can afford the premium if it includes a support team when things break
- meister 10y agoBilling is based on usage for load balancers. You can't offer fixed monthly fee as users may consume all of your network or system capacity and pay as if they were using nothing. This is not a sustainable business.
- AYBABTME 10y agoDO's offering is a fixed monthly rate.
- misframer 10y agoThey're $0.03 per hour [0]. [0] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/ https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
- squeaky-clean 10y agoIt also says right on that page "$20 per month"
- AYBABTME 10y agoSorry I meant it's not billed by network usage, unlike the parent was saying is necessary.
- corobo 10y agoI'm only really after a ballpark figure, multiply everything by 744 and say it's estimated. Put a price per gigabyte overage underneath