This is $7/mo before I even get to try it on real workloads though. There is no trial period or limited setup in which I can evaluate your system on a real (but simple) workload before grabbing my credit card. Surely you can see how that would turn people away...
Re:We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure
by thrwaeasddsaf on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:12AM
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Yeah, sometimes you have to shell out.
Anything that can run a "real workload" is these days going to be heavily targeted by buttcoin miners and other abuse. Any free trial is ripe for abuse, and it becomes a cat & mouse game to try to identify and stop them before they waste all your resources. Is that fight worth fighting for a small business? Probably not. Yeah, you might lose a stingy few potential would-be customers but that may cost less than the fight. I bet most of these small businesses will be happy to refund your $7 if you try their service, find out that it's not for you, and explain your situation nicely.
I get where you're coming from; you just want free stuff. Understandable. But also understand that there are people who want to operate and support different kinds of businesses. For example, we might pay a few dollars a month for someone to host a git repo: https://sourcehut.org/pricing/
Offering service actually costs money, and it has to come from somewhere.