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Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by croes on Sunday April 03, 2022 @06:55AM (#30895966)
>Everything is getting more expensive these days.

Storage gets cheaper per MB

Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by throwmeariver1 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @08:24AM (#30896333)
The opposite goes for offering the storage with traffic. AWS, gcloud, azure everyone had price adjustment last year especially on the storage side of things.
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by coder543 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @09:27AM (#30896744)
You’re saying AWS increased prices on something? Citation needed. They famously don’t do that.

They did have a price adjustment on storage, though… a 31% reduction for some use cases: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/s3-storage-class-price-...

Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by sccxy on Sunday April 03, 2022 @10:26AM (#30897165)
Then why Dropbox, Google, OneDrive many other cloud providers have cut back their free packages?
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by coder543 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @10:42AM (#30897275)
Most likely, they want to make more money, and they no longer care how many free users they lose as long as some of them convert to paid customers.

Free users aren't generating revenue for them. In the past, it seemed like businesses had this idea that infinite free users would somehow lead to infinite revenue, but they seem to be moving away from this philosophy.

Storage has been getting cheaper every year. If a business is skimping on their free plan, it's not because of rising storage costs.