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0 pointsmsbarnett9y ago0 comments

6-of-1, half a dozen of the other. Halving their prices on all current instances gives you the same specs at the same pricepoints.

I don't particularly care if they keep around a 512MB/$2.50 instance at that point.

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Crisco9y ago

I would, however, love that price point. It would be nice if I could run a few light-weight services on a VPS for $2.50 a month and then put my websites and other projects on a beefier VM.

I currently use Linode, but if DigitalOcean offered something at that pricepoint they would be getting $2.50 more from me a month than they currently do.

msbarnettOP9y ago

Pure guess, but I'd imagine that payment processor fees don't make it particularly profitable to offer price levels much lower than $5.

kristianp9y ago

It's more about support costs if I were to guess. How many support tickets does it take for their profit on $25 a year to disappear? (if $2.50 a month is discounted to $25 a year).

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raverbashing9y ago

One thing that could help is having the ability to pre pay/load credits, so you could have a small discount that way

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chrisan9y ago

Make it so you have to buy at least 2 months then

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sedachv9y ago

ARIN charges for IPv4 address allocation (https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html) and I read that below $5 a month it becomes unprofitable for hosting companies just because of the cost of leasing IP addresses. If your services can run on shared hosting there are a bunch of hosts for less than $1 a month around.

mkj9y ago

Charge a dollar for ipv4, or ipv6 is free?

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Crisco9y ago

I would, however, love that price point. It would be nice if I could run a few light-weight services on a VPS for $2.50 a month and then put my websites and other projects on a beefier VM.

I currently use Linode, but if DigitalOcean offered something at that pricepoint they would be getting $2.50 more from me a month than they currently do.

msbarnettOP9y ago

Pure guess, but I'd imagine that payment processor fees don't make it particularly profitable to offer price levels much lower than $5.

kristianp9y ago

It's more about support costs if I were to guess. How many support tickets does it take for their profit on $25 a year to disappear? (if $2.50 a month is discounted to $25 a year).

1 more reply

raverbashing9y ago

One thing that could help is having the ability to pre pay/load credits, so you could have a small discount that way

2 more replies

chrisan9y ago

Make it so you have to buy at least 2 months then

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sedachv9y ago

mkj9y ago

Charge a dollar for ipv4, or ipv6 is free?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse