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Pure guess, but I'd imagine that payment processor fees don't make it particularly profitable to offer price levels much lower than $5.
by 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 agoOne thing that could help is having the ability to pre pay/load credits, so you could have a small discount that way
- Something1234 10y agoThis is the same theory that NearlyFreeSpeech.net uses.
- jldugger 10y agoLinode / AWS already offer prepaid discounts.
- ksec 10y agoWhere Could i find that ? For Linode AND AWS Discount.
- raverbashing 10y agoFor AWS look at "reserved instances" I'm not sure about Linode
- triage4 10y agoFor 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 agoMake it so you have to buy at least 2 months then
- vinceguidry 10y agoOr even pay up front for the year. Perfect for the hobbyist market. I'd probably buy four of them.
- kristianp 10y agoIt'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 agoI always like prgmr.com's stance on that. "Please note that these plans include $2.50 worth of support"