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I would, however, love that price point. It would be nice if I could run a few light-weight services on a VPS for $2.50 a month and then put my websites and oth

by Crisco 10y ago

I would, however, love that price point. It would be nice if I could run a few light-weight services on a VPS for $2.50 a month and then put my websites and other projects on a beefier VM. I currently use Linode, but if DigitalOcean offered something at that pricepoint they would be getting $2.50 more from me a month than they currently do.

msbarnett 10y ago
Pure guess, but I'd imagine that payment processor fees don't make it particularly profitable to offer price levels much lower than $5.
- raverbashing 10y ago
  One thing that could help is having the ability to pre pay/load credits, so you could have a small discount that way
  - Something1234 10y ago
    This is the same theory that NearlyFreeSpeech.net uses.
  - jldugger 10y ago
    Linode / AWS already offer prepaid discounts.
    - ksec 10y ago
      Where Could i find that ? For Linode AND AWS Discount.
      - raverbashing 10y ago
        For AWS look at "reserved instances" I'm not sure about Linode
      - triage4 10y ago
        For Linode: https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/prepaid-billing-and-payments-legacy#discounts-for-prepayment https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/prepaid-billing-and-pay...
- chrisan 10y ago
  Make it so you have to buy at least 2 months then
  - vinceguidry 10y ago
    Or even pay up front for the year. Perfect for the hobbyist market. I'd probably buy four of them.
- kristianp 10y ago
  It's more about support costs if I were to guess. How many support tickets does it take for their profit on $25 a year to disappear? (if $2.50 a month is discounted to $25 a year).
  - bluedino 10y ago
    I always like prgmr.com's stance on that. "Please note that these plans include $2.50 worth of support"
sedachv 10y ago
ARIN charges for IPv4 address allocation (https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html) and I read that below $5 a month it becomes unprofitable for hosting companies just because of the cost of leasing IP addresses. If your services can run on shared hosting there are a bunch of hosts for less than $1 a month around.
- mkj 10y ago
  Charge a dollar for ipv4, or ipv6 is free?

by Crisco 10y ago

msbarnett 10y ago

Pure guess, but I'd imagine that payment processor fees don't make it particularly profitable to offer price levels much lower than $5.

raverbashing 10y ago
One thing that could help is having the ability to pre pay/load credits, so you could have a small discount that way
- Something1234 10y ago
  This is the same theory that NearlyFreeSpeech.net uses.
- jldugger 10y ago
  Linode / AWS already offer prepaid discounts.
  - ksec 10y ago
    Where Could i find that ? For Linode AND AWS Discount.
    - raverbashing 10y ago
      For AWS look at "reserved instances" I'm not sure about Linode
    - triage4 10y ago
      For Linode: https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/prepaid-billing-and-payments-legacy#discounts-for-prepayment https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/prepaid-billing-and-pay...
chrisan 10y ago
Make it so you have to buy at least 2 months then
- vinceguidry 10y ago
  Or even pay up front for the year. Perfect for the hobbyist market. I'd probably buy four of them.
kristianp 10y ago
It's more about support costs if I were to guess. How many support tickets does it take for their profit on $25 a year to disappear? (if $2.50 a month is discounted to $25 a year).
- bluedino 10y ago
  I always like prgmr.com's stance on that. "Please note that these plans include $2.50 worth of support"

sedachv 10y ago

ARIN charges for IPv4 address allocation (https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html) and I read that below $5 a month it becomes unprofitable for hosting companies just because of the cost of leasing IP addresses. If your services can run on shared hosting there are a bunch of hosts for less than $1 a month around.

mkj 10y ago
Charge a dollar for ipv4, or ipv6 is free?