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DNSimple Price Increase
- coolcoco 13y agoNow the price is a little bit to high I think... But the service is so cool!
- blibble 13y agoseems pretty cost competitive next to Amazon's Route53, which I always thought was exceptionally cheap compared to the hassle of running your own nameds
- aeden 13y agoAnthony Eden, founder of DNSimple here. I'm happy to take questions or comments here or directly through our support address (support@dnsimple.com), regardless if you are a customer or not. Our goal is to be transparent about what we're doing and why we're doing it.
- Nikkau 13y agoOk, why it's more expensive? Saying "raising our prices will help us to continue to improve across the board and bring you better, more solid DNS services" is the exact opposite of transparence.
- aeden 13y ago1. We've invested a significant amount of time and capital into our Anycast network. There are both up front and ongoing costs for this. We could make due with the revenue we have now but it would leave little margin. 2. We want to hire additional developers so we can get our ICANN accreditation and add new functionality to the system. I won't go into specifics, but we have a long backlog of things we want to make. We're still going to hire slowly and deliberately, however we want to grow none-the-less. 3. We feel that the value to customers is higher than what we are charging now, and thus we are adjusting the prices for that reason as well.
- jasonkester 13y agoQuick bug report: The logo on your support pages all point back to http://support.dnsimple.com/ http://support.dnsimple.com/, so there's nowhere a user can click on this announcement to go find out about your product and eventually buy it. Presumably you want people to discover your service, so it's probably a bad idea to make them actually type things into the address bar just to get to your homepage.
- aeden 13y agoThanks, I've updated it so the logo goes to the primary site. There was a link in the footer, but you'd never see it.
- JohnQUnknown 13y agoWhat happens if I register today (or any day before July 1st)? Will I get the new prices or the old ones?
- aeden 13y agoYou'll get the current prices if you open your account and activate it before July 1st. Even if you're in the trialing period when the price changes, you'll still remain on the current pricing plan (until you change plans).
- opendomain 13y agoJust use CloudFlare - they offer more services for Free. Plus they have extra security and apps like preventing image bandwidth stealing.
- luminousbit 13y agoI've thought DNSimple has needed to raise its prices for a long time. They provide so much value and and I'd much rather pay more to help ensure that they stay around and can continue to build.