Vultr adjusts its pricing
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@stacksofplates said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@stacksofplates said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
Holy crap, that's huge. Worth noting that they dropped their 768MB tier in moving to this. Not complaining, just pointing it out to help make it clear what moved to where.
It was still cheaper than DO because it was the same price for 768 with them as it was for 512 with DO. I wonder why they dropped the tier entirely? 256MB can have a decent impact on a machine, would have been nice to keep it.
It would have been the $3.50 tier
Ya that's what I was thinking ha.
My guess is that they want people on that tier currently to either have to move or to continue paying the $5 price without getting the $5 current value
Lots of providers do that, like Linode. If you aren't prepared to shift your workloads around, taking advantage of price changes is very difficult to do. -
@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@stacksofplates said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@stacksofplates said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
Holy crap, that's huge. Worth noting that they dropped their 768MB tier in moving to this. Not complaining, just pointing it out to help make it clear what moved to where.
It was still cheaper than DO because it was the same price for 768 with them as it was for 512 with DO. I wonder why they dropped the tier entirely? 256MB can have a decent impact on a machine, would have been nice to keep it.
It would have been the $3.50 tier
Ya that's what I was thinking ha.
My guess is that they want people on that tier currently to either have to move or to continue paying the $5 price without getting the $5 current value
Lots of providers do that, like Linode. If you aren't prepared to shift your workloads around, taking advantage of price changes is very difficult to do.Ya that's true I didn't think of it that way. I was thinking of places with large workloads because an extra $1 a month isn't a lot until you get up there in size, but I didn't think about this angle.
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Awesome news! I love the competition among all of these VPS providers.
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@fuznutz04 said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
Awesome news! I love the competition among all of these VPS providers.
As long as they all stay viable.
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@scottalanmiller Right, they can't get to the point where performance suffers. One way I could see that happening is if they "over-provision" their equipment.
What do you specifically mean by "staying viable?"
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@fuznutz04 said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller Right, they can't get to the point where performance suffers. One way I could see that happening is if they "over-provision" their equipment.
What do you specifically mean by "staying viable?"
Well over provisioning is one way to become not viable - i.e. customers won't use you because your service stinks because you over provision and make things slow.
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@fuznutz04 said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller Right, they can't get to the point where performance suffers. One way I could see that happening is if they "over-provision" their equipment.
What do you specifically mean by "staying viable?"
At some point they cut the cost so much that there is no profit in it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@fuznutz04 said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller Right, they can't get to the point where performance suffers. One way I could see that happening is if they "over-provision" their equipment.
What do you specifically mean by "staying viable?"
At some point they cut the cost so much that there is no profit in it.
Right, that would be terrible.
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@fuznutz04 said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@fuznutz04 said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller Right, they can't get to the point where performance suffers. One way I could see that happening is if they "over-provision" their equipment.
What do you specifically mean by "staying viable?"
At some point they cut the cost so much that there is no profit in it.
Right, that would be terrible.
Which when you are selling things at $2.50, can happen all too easily.
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@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@fuznutz04 said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@fuznutz04 said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller Right, they can't get to the point where performance suffers. One way I could see that happening is if they "over-provision" their equipment.
What do you specifically mean by "staying viable?"
At some point they cut the cost so much that there is no profit in it.
Right, that would be terrible.
Which when you are selling things at $2.50, can happen all too easily.
Exactly.
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Those margins are getting quite tiny.
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@scottalanmiller Right, but how many people can use that limited of resources? I am guessing lots of upgrades.
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@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
Those margins are getting quite tiny.
The margins were already razor thing to begin with. Like everyone else, I really hope they make at least a little bit on the low tier.
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@travisdh1 Let the market decide... Some of them will fail... The question is who?
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@aaronstuder said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@travisdh1 Let the market decide... Some of them will fail... The question is who?
Yet Cloud at Cost is still around, somehow.
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@travisdh1 said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
Those margins are getting quite tiny.
The margins were already razor thing to begin with. Like everyone else, I really hope they make at least a little bit on the low tier.
I have a feeling they hope a good percentage of servers never see production use. I would venture to guess that servers for tinkering, testing, or people who sign up for only 1-3 months build up nice revenue. They probably break even on production systems at that cost.
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@travisdh1 said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@aaronstuder said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@travisdh1 Let the market decide... Some of them will fail... The question is who?
Yet Cloud at Cost is still around, somehow.
I wonder why they didn't just rebrand after that nightmare?
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@aaronstuder said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller Right, but how many people can use that limited of resources? I am guessing lots of upgrades.
A lot, actually. 512MB is enough to run a fully functional PBX, Jump Box or web server. It's amazing how often you could use that.
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@aaronstuder said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@travisdh1 Let the market decide... Some of them will fail... The question is who?
That's the scary bit. That's a lot of customers gambling on each one of them.
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@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@aaronstuder said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:
@scottalanmiller Right, but how many people can use that limited of resources? I am guessing lots of upgrades.
A lot, actually. 512MB is enough to run a fully functional PBX, Jump Box or web server. It's amazing how often you could use that.
Ya a few of my production servers are only 512MB.
