[ale] [OT] Cloudatcost bait and switch?

[Ted W.]

Why is anyone using anything other than Digital Ocean for their personal
cloud hosting provider these days? I've looked all over and you can't
beat the price and I've never had a bad experience with their customer
support (which I've had to interact with more than I'd care to admit due
to personal negligence, forgotten passwords and ssh key mishaps).

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 09:49:18AM -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> Live by the cloud, die by the cloud. I can't figure out what cloudatcost
> is selling, but ...
> 
> http://www.cloudatcost.com/terms.php says:
> "8.2 All fees are subject to change at CloudatCost' discretion. Where
> required by law, notification of changes will be sent to you via the
> email address on file with CloudatCost in your Customer Account."
> 
> "I am altering the deal, pray i don't alter it any further."
> - Darth Vader
> 
> 
> 
> "    The cloud is someone else’s hard drive attached to someone else’s
> server in someone else’s data center at the end of an Internet pipe
> controlled by someone else. If that works for you – and it might! –
> great. But do be aware of what you are doing."
> 
> – by sphealey
> 
> I looked at the cloudatcost site and cannot understand how they stay in
> business. $18 for a 1-time price isn't sustainable for more than a few
> months for what they offer.  OTOH, since they can change the deal for
> each client at-will, as you've seen, there isn't much recourse for any
> customer.
> 
> Sorry that I'm not helpful at all.  When something sounds too good to be
> true, it probably is.
> 
> On 06/19/2017 08:32 AM, Edward O. Holcroft wrote:
> > I got notified last week that unless I pay an annual maintenance fee
> > within 24 hours, my "lifetime" server at cloudatcost will be canceled.
> > At that point, however, my server had already been deleted when I logged
> > into my dashboard.
> > 
> > In the past they repeatedly shut my server down due to what they deemed
> > to be inactivity (I hardly used it).
> > 
> > Anyone else seen this? Reddit seems to have a lot about it. Unbelievable.
> > 
> > I have queried it with them and opened a ticket... no response from
> > cloudatcost, just keep telling me to pay with a standard email response
> > to every query I make.
> >  
> 
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