Cloud at Cost - Did I make a mistake?
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I'm glad I ran into this thread, CloudatCost looks like some good stuff.
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Well, after reading all of this, I am going to give it a go. I will have daily backups, just in case anyways
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It's very low cost, I wouldn't buy fifty servers before you play with it. But grab one or two and see how it works for you, same as any other cloud or IaaS provider.
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My guess is that the company is banking on volume versus duration. They are counting on lots of the lower level plans, or even the higher-level ones. It's like how grocery stores make money. They lose money on basically anything on sale, but they figure that if the cost is right, people will just keep coming back.
For these guys, if a company's options are thousands to host their own internal network or use a VPN solution, like Pertino, as an example, (assuming a reasonably small business here) with their cloud servers they pay one-time for and then use for life, they can make up what they lose in recurring monthly costs in volume of servers people purchase for life.
I see this as a very viable marketing strategy, albeit a very different way of thinking compared to the norm. I like it personally. It's risky but I like it.
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Besides, look at it this way. Someone purchases lifetime servers at certain specs for Windows servers. 5 years from now, those specs are no longer adequate. Now they have to buy new lifetime licenses. The old servers get turned into Linux servers or dev servers. Everyone wins.
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Or they get decommed and Cloud@Cost wins. Either way, the company saves money, and C@C makes out well.
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@thanksaj said:
Or they get decommed and Cloud@Cost wins. Either way, the company saves money, and C@C makes out well.
Yes, that is likely going to be a lot of cases.
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@thanksaj said:
Besides, look at it this way. Someone purchases lifetime servers at certain specs for Windows servers. 5 years from now, those specs are no longer adequate. Now they have to buy new lifetime licenses. The old servers get turned into Linux servers or dev servers. Everyone wins.
Exactly. Buy a Dev1 today and that costs pennies to operate in the future and eventually becomes useless. Eventually no customers will keep those old systems up and running. "Forever" is only as long as practical.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
Theses link aren't helping:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/15/hosting_outfit_nodeki_breaks_lifetime_promise/
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=278412
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/08/17/1734250/joyent-drops-lifetime-account-holders
l think that it is important to not judge one vendor by the bad behavior of others. There will always be badly behaving vendors who pull a fast one, cheat you, steal your data or what have you. But you can't assume that everyone will do that or you would be unable to do business. If we looked at it that way, we would assume that because AMC went belly up that all car companies are going to go out of business and we would stop buying new cars because we are assuming that warranties are worthless because we are not evaluating the existing car companies based on their own merits but evaluating them based on the failure of an unrelated company.
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I guess I should have trusted my gut...
Oh well, I got my money back.
