Heh, I stopped looking at this thread almost immediately after "getting over" the initial sting. But I have to say, I still feel that this kind of behavior wou

Heh, I stopped looking at this thread almost immediately after "getting over" the initial sting. But I have to say, I still feel that this kind of behavior would be a sane policy. No one´s saying you should hold onto data forever. But having a dedicated pool of dead storage that´s capable of storing the data for a few months of non-payment, or even longer -- that seems like a very good idea. The running VMs are so many, many times more expensive than a block of dead storage of equivalent size. Probably orders of magnitude more expensive. Then when you consider the business benefit to having the softer-and-fuzzier policy ... well, there´s always the "avoid 'high maintenance' customers" theory.