When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”
I wonder if they ever compared the price of AWS hosting and just renting a rack at a colocation facility.<p>One way of thinking about this is that &quot;free&quot; isn&#x27;t &quot;enterprise&quot; and while you would love to have them convert, hosting free users on a rack with a 500MB Cogent IP transport contract can be had for &lt; $2K&#x2F;month. So $24K a year. Is it a &quot;teir-1&quot; data center? no. Does it have failure redundancy? no. Is there a risk of data loss in the event of a power failure? yes. But all of those things are what drive the costs up and are what make the &quot;paid&quot; plan, worth more than the &quot;free&quot; plan. Would it be good enough for people? Absolutely.