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If you're planning on building your business on the cloud, the availability of free credits seems like the worst way to evaluate a cloud provider. Generous "fre
by Johnny555 6y ago
If you're planning on building your business on the cloud, the availability of free credits seems like the worst way to evaluate a cloud provider. Generous "free" credits might even be a warning that they have to pay people to use the platform.
- unethical_ban 6y agoThis ignores the other big reasons to take losses early, when one is a new(er) player in a market with a dominant competitor. It's not completely wrong, but incomplete.
- Johnny555 6y agoDoesn't the same logic apply -- that new upstart is unproven and is essentially paying people to use their platform. The last thing your burgeoning new business needs is trying to debug issues on a brand new platform, you can't even hire industry experts to help because there are no industry experts. So if you want to work on building your business and not debug cloud provider issues, avoid the new upstart.
- redisman 6y agoIf you truly need cloud hosting then that is $130k of free money no? That's more than many pre-seed rounds. If you use that for a bunch of Linux machines running some kinda containers and a non-proprietary database then I don't see any downsides.