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Not the elastic nature, more that it takes longer than it should to understand what the drivers are. If everything is related to memory and memory only goes up
by richardw 14y ago
Not the elastic nature, more that it takes longer than it should to understand what the drivers are. If everything is related to memory and memory only goes up in 32MB chunks, have a slider/radio/dropdown/whatever that moves memory and related resources simultaneously, with a per-hour and monthly charge that's auto-updated.
I think it's important to note that the page is about pricing, but 99% of the info isn't a price. Above the fold there's only one price, which you have to use in calculating the actual value yourself. Way, way down are the examples, but they might or might not represent what a customer's workload will look like, so they still don't really have what they came to the page for. Getting the customer their own price, super-fast, (assuming it's a good one) is the path to showing why you guys are so fantastic.
- shykes 14y agoAll good feedback. However the one giant caveat is that most developers don't know how much memory their application needs.
- cardmagic 14y agoMost people don't know how much disk space an email takes, it didn't stop Gmail from just giving 2gb free disk space.
- shykes 14y agoYes - exactly like dotCloud's sandbox :)
- cardmagic 14y agoExcept Gmail isn't just free for drafting emails, it is free when you send them to real people too.
- KenCochrane 14y agodotCloud doesn't have ads, to pay for the service like gmail. :)
- pbreit 14y agoBut 2gb sounds like a lot and 32mb sounds like nothing. When a service like rackspace _starts_ at 256mb you wonder just what you are getting.
- shykes 14y agoWhat you're getting is the ability to deploy linux containers with very fine-grained control over resource allocation. Maybe you're using redis as a job queue, or to hold a handful of counters. Maybe you're running nginx to serve static assets with custom rewrite rules. You can run it dotCloud and pay peanuts - knowing that you're one "dotcloud scale" away from all the gigabytes of ram you can eat.
- moe 14y agoThat's why you (in addition to all that has been said) should make very clear how easy it is to up- and downgrade. Also there could be small hints next to the slider (yes, I'm a fan of sliders;)) as it snaps into the various positions... But those are again just ideas. You should get a good designer on the case, this is their bread & butter.
- x1 14y agoThat's easily solved Have a slider. When you move it have a window that lists what applications can be served with the selected allotment. Hell... that'd be pretty damn cool looking