Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by shykes on Monday June 18, 2012 @12:09PM
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Did you notice we offer real-life usage scenarios at the bottom of the page?
Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by lalmalang on Monday June 18, 2012 @12:23PM
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I saw them but those are but single datapoints (and apps seems to vary wildly in requirements). would be handy to have a slider so you could answer the 'what-ifs'.
also, was an early beta signup, really liked dotcloud, but have to agree this pricing is pretty complicated :(
Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by moe on Monday June 18, 2012 @01:06PM
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Yes, but as lalmalang said, these are not very useful and not discoverable at all.
I don't want to click through 5+ random scenarios to perhaps find one that comes close to what I have in mind.
Well, at the risk of repeating myself. You seem to be generating revenue already, so I would seriously look into hiring a designer for this (or make a contest or such).
My gut feeling is that you're so deep into all this (which is generally good!) that you have a hard time reviewing it through the eyes of a first-time visitor.
But that's just my gut reaction. What you really need is a webdesigner who can lay down an approachable visualization for such a complex pricing scheme (which will probably involve sliders, and also big honking tooltips).
As for your actual pricing - I don't know. It wasn't obvious from the page what a small/medium/large deployment would cost and I didn't bother to fire up excel to figure out a number that you should absolutely spoon-feed me.