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you, personally, may be a high margin customer, but some, and perhaps a lot, of the $5/no customers are potential liabilities due to not patching software or li
by zippy 7y ago
you, personally, may be a high margin customer, but some,
and perhaps a lot, of the $5/no customers are potential liabilities due to not patching software or libraries or choosing terrible passwords for their services, databases, etc.
one decent incident can cost a multiple of a year's revenue for the account.
- jimmaswell 7y agois this just about cpu power from exploits?
- zippy 7y agono, more like someone's instance gets pwn-ed and is now part of a botnet and DO is getting calls and or isp-blocked and has to devote staff time to the incident.
- jethro_tell 7y agoin my experience, it's more about trying to keep your IP space clean for the rest of your customers and bandwidth. You either get your IP space blacklisted or some idiot starts burning 1Gbps on ssh attempts and you start getting abuse email from the .mil space which is awkward. Plus, you gotta pay for the bandwidth. That 5/mo customer is much more likely to disappear than pay for the data they used.
- derefr 7y ago> That 5/mo customer is much more likely to disappear than pay for the data they used. Is there no such thing as prepaid, "the VM stops when your credits run out" VPS hosting? Seems to work well-enough for Twilio.