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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by dagw on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:25AM (#34677656)
$800 for the month, it's storing around 32GB of data, and is allocated 4 CPU cores.

Company I used to work for happily paid company A four times what company B charged for the exact same service, just because company A was willing to send quarterly invoices in way that played nicely with our invoicing system. For companies, saving a few hundred bucks here and there often isn't worth the hassles of introducing any extra friction.

Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by swalsh on Monday February 06, 2023 @04:48PM (#34684925)
I pointed out a difference like that once to the CTO, who then proceeded to show me the financials for the service. We were making something like a hundred thousand dollars a month from it (i had no idea, seemed like we only had a few clients... but they paid A LOT). $400 wasn't worth spending time thinking about. Especially if it might cause downtime.