[ale] [OT] Cloudatcost bait and switch?

[Douglas Yoon]

OK - gonna risk getting assaulted here... (and, I am NOT an Amazon employee)

Depending on your needs, AWS can be cheap. Focusing on a Virtual Machine:
+ The 1 year free tier is actually free (750 hours/month free for 1 cpu/1GB
RAM/30GB EBS Storage)
+ You can divide your free tier into different chunks (1 VM running all
month, or 4 VM's running 25% of the time)
+ Amazon actually doesn't care if you "renew" with a new e-mail address.
I'm on Year 2 with the same credit card

For hosting static web pages, this is free:
+ 5GB on S3 (Object Store)
+ 1 million REST API calls per month
+ 1 million Lambda calls per month
+ 25 GB storage DynamoDB
+ 1 GB outgoing traffic  (all incoming traffic into AWS is free)

More information about free trial and always free tier:
https://aws.amazon.com/free/

So, why am I sticking my neck out here?  Not only because AWS for personal
use can be very cost effective, but because, I have found that the industry
badly needs AWS experts and are willing to pay well for people to help with
their AWS workloads. You can break into AWS on your own time, for very
little cost.  Just sayin', if it is free to try, why not try...

my 2 cents...





On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Ted W. <ted-lists at xy0.org> wrote:

> 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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