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I'm a Ep.io user, hosting a bunch of apps about half on the free plan and a half on a paid plan. Note that my apps on Ep.io are all pretty low traffic apps in g
by beggi 14y ago
I'm a Ep.io user, hosting a bunch of apps about half on the free plan and a half on a paid plan. Note that my apps on Ep.io are all pretty low traffic apps in general but traffic comes in bursts. On Ep.io I'm paying around $15 a month for the paid apps (when there's low traffic). Your pricing plans seem very ill suited for my needs. As I understand your pricing table, you would charge me $99 per each two apps (they all use databases), both those I get free and the paid apps on Ep.io. This is obviously way too much, is there anything that I'm misinterpreting?
- shykes 14y agoI can guarantee that you can run your apps on dotCloud on roughly the same budget as Heroku, if not cheaper. Our pricing page is tragically bad, we know it, and we are fixing it. For now a large proportion of our sales process is custom, in mostly 2 ways: 1) "I have several tiny apps, help me pay less"! and 2) "I need VIP support and features, help me pay more". This will soon make its way into official pricing. For now you should email support@dotcloud.com and mention you come from ep.io :) This may sound unglamorous, but that is how our discovery process works, and it's allowing us to build a real business. And in the long run you need a business in order to avoid selling out and letting your customers down.
- kingrolo 14y agoThis is what I found too. Yeah, there's a free tier, but if you want an app runner, database and cache it doesn't fit below $99.