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Their new strategy is to decommission the free plans and re-invest in building open source instead. It's not really clear how to self-host and how to transitio
by zimbatm 14y ago
Their new strategy is to decommission the free plans and re-invest in building open source instead.
It's not really clear how to self-host and how to transition from self-hosting to their platform if the need arises.
- derefr 14y agoSounds like they want to be like WordPress.org for PaaS, and are hoping someone else will step up and serve as WordPress.com.
- acjohnson55 14y agoThey can do that themselves, if they can find a way to keep the Sandbox around.
- thibaut_barrere 14y agoThe sandbox was a good incentive to try DotCloud out and keep a healthy staging server etc. But I suppose the freemium model (I understand it's a kind of freemium) costs, again, too much in this case.
- kmfrk 14y agoI'm sure they have the numbers to support decision. It's never a one-size-fits-all, unfortunately, and I think I'll stop using dotCloud at this point. Not that I want to make the impression that there are any obvious alternatives for a fairly easy Django deployment experience.
- thibaut_barrere 14y agoAs someone who is going to launch a SaaS all-paid (no freemium), I can certainly understand their decision :-)
- zimbatm 14y agoThe thing is, it's easy to upgrade a sandbox account into a paying one. I would recommend that they make sure that the upgrade path from self-hosted to dotCloud be as simple.