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Appreciate the first comment! Yeah, I know that is patio11's slogen. Interestingly, my users never tell me this. :D Also, I think having to pay $19/month is pr

Appreciate the first comment! Yeah, I know that is patio11's slogen. Interestingly, my users never tell me this. :D Also, I think having to pay $19/month is prohibitive for way too many use cases. Like, there are lots of websites on Boomla that are personal, web based documents. Eg. notes on how to play Bridge, the card game. Anyways, I'll check out the links you sent again. > Also, the price structure is too complicated. How much should I pay for an obscure blog that is hit from time to time with a small HN visit? Interesting point. Let's say you get 50k visitors at a 1MB page load size. Substracting the free tier, that's 50GB data transfer -> $3.6. Visit pricing would be $49. CPU is probably $0. If you get to the front page 1x a year, that's on average $4.4/mo. It's very unlikely that you will be on the front page very often. Do you think that's reasonable? I understand your concern is that it's complicated. True, but if it wasn't, I'd spread the cost of high-traffic websites on everyone. So instead of paying $1/mo you would have to pay $10/mo. Or I'd have to cancel your account as many hosting companies do. As a user, I'd rather have my own electricity usage metered. Wouldn't you agree?

gus_massa 7y ago
Nobody ask to be charged more, but trusting you to put the credit card number is difficult, so the people that would pay $1 per month and $2 per month is almost the same. I have my electricity usage metered, but I have a very good estimation that the bill next month will be $40 or $50 (The numbers are in US$. Hi from Argentina!) The phone bill is more tricky. It´s usualy $10 (It is metered here, including local calls). But there are a lot of posible events that may increase the bill a lot. For example calling a mobile phone or calling abroad. I make a few calls to mobile phones and I very rarely call abroad, but it is scarry that the bill is essencialy unbounded. With a webpage, it is more difficult to have a good estimation of the cost beforehand.
- zupa-hu 7y ago
  Yes, good point. I ended up removing the variable cost. Hello from Hungary! :)

gus_massa 7y ago

Nobody ask to be charged more, but trusting you to put the credit card number is difficult, so the people that would pay $1 per month and $2 per month is almost the same. I have my electricity usage metered, but I have a very good estimation that the bill next month will be $40 or $50 (The numbers are in US$. Hi from Argentina!) The phone bill is more tricky. It´s usualy $10 (It is metered here, including local calls). But there are a lot of posible events that may increase the bill a lot. For example calling a mobile phone or calling abroad. I make a few calls to mobile phones and I very rarely call abroad, but it is scarry that the bill is essencialy unbounded. With a webpage, it is more difficult to have a good estimation of the cost beforehand.

zupa-hu 7y ago
Yes, good point. I ended up removing the variable cost. Hello from Hungary! :)