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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @AdamF
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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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      • AdamFA
        AdamF @scottalanmiller
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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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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @AdamF
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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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          • AdamFA
            AdamF @scottalanmiller
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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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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              Those margins are getting quite tiny.

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                Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
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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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                • travisdh1T
                  travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
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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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                    Alex Sage @travisdh1
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                    @travisdh1 Let the market decide... Some of them will fail... The question is who?

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                    • travisdh1T
                      travisdh1 @Alex Sage
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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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                      • IRJI
                        IRJ @travisdh1
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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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                        • IRJI
                          IRJ @travisdh1
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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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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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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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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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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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                              • stacksofplatesS
                                stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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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.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @travisdh1
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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.

                                  Are they? Were they ever around? Collecting money and being around isn't the same thing.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @IRJ
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                                    @IRJ said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

                                    @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?

                                    They probably do as a million other things, but they don't get rid of the old branding, just have multiple new ones. Any random VPS from Canada might be C@C rebranded.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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                                      @stacksofplates said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

                                      @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.

                                      Same here, our main jump server, for example.

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                                      • stacksofplatesS
                                        stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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                                        @scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

                                        @stacksofplates said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

                                        @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.

                                        Same here, our main jump server, for example.

                                        Our whole identity management system runs on 1GB. that covers up to 20,000 users

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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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:

                                          @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.

                                          Same here, our main jump server, for example.

                                          Our whole identity management system runs on 1GB. that covers up to 20,000 users

                                          Nice. We have one legacy PBX that is still on 256MB, lol. It's really old and just waits for the customer in question to agree to a free upgrade. But it works fine that way, so they never bother!

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            For the record, it only needs 180MB normally.

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