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the security hack was always on back of my mind. what really made me move away from linode is really their inability to accept paypal. Luckily, digitalocean a
by notastartup 13y ago
the security hack was always on back of my mind.
what really made me move away from linode is really their inability to accept paypal.
Luckily, digitalocean accepted paypal. Also their $5 servers cannot be beat.
Sure, linode has some good panels but it was more than I can chew and more than I needed. Digitalocean also had a good amount of docmentation to do everything I needed without filing a ticket.
- taf2 13y agocurious, what do use the $5 servers for?
- notastartup 13y agothe same way I used linode for but at 4 times the less cost.
- cthor 13y agoA lot of merchants (e.g. Amazon) don't use PayPal because is isn't a real bank, and so isn't beholden by laws associated with banks. The terms of service state that you cannot seek any legal recourse from them should your account be shut down. How could this affect a VPS provider? Say a customer hosts a porn site, or a gun-selling site, or something else PayPal disagrees with. PayPal shuts the merchant's account down for it. Now the merchant's funds are frozen for an indeterminate amount of time till the issue can be resolved, if at all, and there's nothing they can do about it short of appealing to PayPal.
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- notastartup 13y agoyeah but when I couldn't use my credit card anymore paypal was the only option.
- raverbashing 13y agoExactly I am very sympathetic to anyone not wanting to use paypal for these reasons. It is too big a risk, especially for something like a VPS provider that needs the recurring payments.