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Personally, I think pay-for-use models a la Tarsnap and NearlyFreeSpeech.net are quite fair. I suppose most people will be put off by "mental transaction costs"
by JoachimSchipper 16y ago
Personally, I think pay-for-use models a la Tarsnap and NearlyFreeSpeech.net are quite fair. I suppose most people will be put off by "mental transaction costs", though.
- bmelton 16y agoThat might be a part of it, but I think the other part of it is that the average guy looking to start a blog, or website, or whatever, has absolutely no idea how much traffic his thing will generate. For people like that, the claims that Dreamhost makes are a godsend, as he doesn't have to worry about "what if I get a 1000 subscribers?" Generally, I'm pleased as punch that Slicehost, Linode and Amazon came along, as now I have fair prices with real limits. If I outgrow them, I don't have to move, I just increase memory allocation, or grow the slice, or add a node, whatever. Dreamhost couldn't get away with this because likely, 80% of their users are paying $9.95 a month for the equivalent of 25 cents worth of usage.
- dedward 16y agoThey are fine for joe average who wants to play around and start a blog. They aren't fine if you want to deploy a web-scale infrastructure on top of them and make tons of money. That much should be obvious to anyone architecting such services.