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$15 or $6 per month is not so excessive. $6 deal is better when you work for free or can find someone to work on it for $9/month. $15 per month premium includ

by sccxy 5y ago

$15 or $6 per month is not so excessive. $6 deal is better when you work for free or can find someone to work on it for $9/month. $15 per month premium includes: * Premium Support * Premium themes * Sell products with WooCommerce * Collect payments * Automated website backups I think setting these up will cost much more in self hosted version. I'm fan of self hosting, but when I calculate it to my hourly salary then self hosting is very expensive.

panicpanicpanic 5y ago
There's no monthly payment option. So it's never $15 a month, it's $180 a year. Also, what if I don't want many of those features? And I don't. This is why the previous plans, which were more graded, made sense. The annual billing option on the other hand caters to customers in need of all these features, who are also likely to be the sort of people who'd be willing to pay $180 at a go.
quickthrower2 5y ago
The $6 option can add on domains for each new crackpot idea at no additional cost so that is a bonus. But I prefer hostgator. Maybe not as performant but it effectively serverless 0.1 tech that makes it easy to add sites and administer.
nirui 5y ago
On the article, the author wrote: > Earlier, there were five plans: free, personal, premium, business and e-commerce.... But at some point late last week, WordPress replaced all of the paid plans with a single ‘Pro’ plan and reduced the storage on the free plan 6x, from 3 GB to 500 MB. > Imagine looking for a good-quality surgical mask to wear in a park but finding out that the most reliable vendor in town has suddenly decided to sell only chemical safety masks. Yes, it contains Premium support, premium themes, commerce, payment support and automatic backups, but how many of those features you'll actually utilize? Why would you want to purchase their automatic backups when you already have a system that backs things up better? Why should you pay for their commerce system when you already using a better third-party one? It's not "But it's loaded with features" here, instead it's "Yes, it's loaded with features. But I (author) don't need most of it".
- sccxy 5y ago
  Everything is getting more expensive these days. My electricity price increased 50%. I did not get any extra features. >>For me the problems are the massive reduction in storage from 3GB to 0.5GM along with this new notion of maximum views, set quite low. I think those two combined will likely drive a lot of people away. >> Me too I am only seeing my storage as 500mb and I have had a free site since 2013. Those people are whining because they have used service for almost ten years and never paid a penny for it. People should understand that things are never free forever. 500MB is enough for free plan. If you use more then it is reasonable to get premium plan or host it somewhere else for cheaper.
  - croes 5y ago
    >Everything is getting more expensive these days. Storage gets cheaper per MB
    - throwmeariver1 5y ago
      The opposite goes for offering the storage with traffic. AWS, gcloud, azure everyone had price adjustment last year especially on the storage side of things.
      - coder543 5y ago
        You’re saying AWS increased prices on something? Citation needed. They famously don’t do that. They did have a price adjustment on storage, though… a 31% reduction for some use cases: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/s3-storage-class-price-reductions/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/s3-storage-class-price-...
    - sccxy 5y ago
      Then why Dropbox, Google, OneDrive many other cloud providers have cut back their free packages?
      - coder543 5y ago

by sccxy 5y ago

panicpanicpanic 5y ago

There's no monthly payment option. So it's never $15 a month, it's $180 a year. Also, what if I don't want many of those features? And I don't. This is why the previous plans, which were more graded, made sense. The annual billing option on the other hand caters to customers in need of all these features, who are also likely to be the sort of people who'd be willing to pay $180 at a go.

quickthrower2 5y ago

The $6 option can add on domains for each new crackpot idea at no additional cost so that is a bonus. But I prefer hostgator. Maybe not as performant but it effectively serverless 0.1 tech that makes it easy to add sites and administer.

nirui 5y ago

On the article, the author wrote: > Earlier, there were five plans: free, personal, premium, business and e-commerce.... But at some point late last week, WordPress replaced all of the paid plans with a single ‘Pro’ plan and reduced the storage on the free plan 6x, from 3 GB to 500 MB. > Imagine looking for a good-quality surgical mask to wear in a park but finding out that the most reliable vendor in town has suddenly decided to sell only chemical safety masks. Yes, it contains Premium support, premium themes, commerce, payment support and automatic backups, but how many of those features you'll actually utilize? Why would you want to purchase their automatic backups when you already have a system that backs things up better? Why should you pay for their commerce system when you already using a better third-party one? It's not "But it's loaded with features" here, instead it's "Yes, it's loaded with features. But I (author) don't need most of it".

sccxy 5y ago
Everything is getting more expensive these days. My electricity price increased 50%. I did not get any extra features. >>For me the problems are the massive reduction in storage from 3GB to 0.5GM along with this new notion of maximum views, set quite low. I think those two combined will likely drive a lot of people away. >> Me too I am only seeing my storage as 500mb and I have had a free site since 2013. Those people are whining because they have used service for almost ten years and never paid a penny for it. People should understand that things are never free forever. 500MB is enough for free plan. If you use more then it is reasonable to get premium plan or host it somewhere else for cheaper.
- croes 5y ago
  >Everything is getting more expensive these days. Storage gets cheaper per MB
  - throwmeariver1 5y ago
    The opposite goes for offering the storage with traffic. AWS, gcloud, azure everyone had price adjustment last year especially on the storage side of things.
    - coder543 5y ago
      You’re saying AWS increased prices on something? Citation needed. They famously don’t do that. They did have a price adjustment on storage, though… a 31% reduction for some use cases: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/s3-storage-class-price-reductions/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/s3-storage-class-price-...
  - sccxy 5y ago
    Then why Dropbox, Google, OneDrive many other cloud providers have cut back their free packages?
    - coder543 5y ago