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Seems like the lesson for you here is: never give free hosting, people feel terribly entitled once they have it and their negative feedback may cause trouble in
by swombat 16y ago
Seems like the lesson for you here is: never give free hosting, people feel terribly entitled once they have it and their negative feedback may cause trouble in your actual products.
- enduser 16y agoThe hosting is not free. It was paid for in advance.
- swombat 16y agoPaid in advance is still free on a month-to-month basis. That's what I meant. Paying for a service forever in advance is a devious mis-alignment of incentives. The customer will feel that they are owed everything. The business of it won't work out. As I said, the lesson is, don't give shit for free - even for an initial payment. Ongoing services need to be paid for in an ongoing manner.
- elq 16y agoI paid $400 for lifetime service via the vc2 drive sometime in mid 2005. I got about 2.5 years of usable service before I completely abandoned textdrive. An effective rate of $160/yr for really marginal shared hosting. I currently pay ~$215/year for a linode account. I will continue to pay for linode.