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Re:The economics of a Postgres free tier by fragmede on Thursday July 11, 2024 @08:01PM (#40941691)
No. By selling it for $2, they have to deal with the credit card/whatever fee, Wich is typically 2.9%+30 cents, so they're already down from your $2, and then they have to staff customer support to deal with any sort of problems that crop up. Which makes it not worth the < $2 they'd get from everyone in that category.

100 paying customers in that category is still only $200, which isn't even enough for groceries for a family for a month. and for how much hassle?

Re:The economics of a Postgres free tier by tossandthrow on Friday July 12, 2024 @01:41PM (#40947709)
More hassle free than serving these 100 customers for free.

Especially if you only offer 2 year prepaid options.