How long will the beta be free?
At least 5 weeks. Sometimes longer, depending on capacity.
When your beta chunk's time is up, we email you asking you to take a survey about the experience. At the end of the survey, you can choose to keep your chunk and begin paying for it or let it be shut down.
Re: ChunkHost is giving away free VPS hosting
by erik_p on Friday February 18, 2011 @02:33PM
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5 weeks? Meh... I did sign up, almost out of compulsion... Can one have buyers regret from something that is free?
Most places have introductory offers of a month free or super reduced price with money back guarantees on services that don't need a shake down.
Had I not been acting so compulsively after just waking up, I wouldn't have bothered for a pithy 5 week (possibly more...) free "beta". It's not worth taking the time to setup something on this account if it's just going to switch to traditional billing in 5 weeks, IMHO.
Re: ChunkHost is giving away free VPS hosting
by j_baker on Friday February 18, 2011 @02:43PM
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I signed up for hosting from these guys about a year ago and have been pretty satisfied. The service just works, and the support I get has been great. Granted, I'm just running a simple little personal site. It's nothing of critical importance or anything.
Re: ChunkHost is giving away free VPS hosting
by masto on Friday February 18, 2011 @02:18PM
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They don't seem to be able to verify my (valid) credit card. I'm hoping it's not a scam, but if it's not, they may have gotten shut down by their payment processor for a lot of suspicious $0.01 authorizations.
Re: ChunkHost is giving away free VPS hosting
by gkelly on Friday February 18, 2011 @05:52PM
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Me too. Why couldn't they tell me this before I submitted my credit card info? Now I have to watch and make sure no charges come through. I clicked the "Remove card" link from my settings page, and hopefully they'll actually do so.
Most places have introductory offers of a month free or super reduced price with money back guarantees on services that don't need a shake down.
Had I not been acting so compulsively after just waking up, I wouldn't have bothered for a pithy 5 week (possibly more...) free "beta". It's not worth taking the time to setup something on this account if it's just going to switch to traditional billing in 5 weeks, IMHO.
Sure, if you feel you were misled, and now you have to spend time to ditch the account before they bill you.
Remember what Tyler Durden says: "the things you own ... end up owning you".
It's also a bit disappointing as I'm in the UK.