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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by jethro_tell on Friday January 17, 2020 @06:05PM (#22080564)
in my experience, it's more about trying to keep your IP space clean for the rest of your customers and bandwidth. You either get your IP space blacklisted or some idiot starts burning 1Gbps on ssh attempts and you start getting abuse email from the .mil space which is awkward. Plus, you gotta pay for the bandwidth.

That 5/mo customer is much more likely to disappear than pay for the data they used.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by derefr on Friday January 17, 2020 @06:58PM (#22081007)
> That 5/mo customer is much more likely to disappear than pay for the data they used.

Is there no such thing as prepaid, "the VM stops when your credits run out" VPS hosting? Seems to work well-enough for Twilio.

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