Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by shykes on Monday June 18, 2012 @12:32PM
(#4127210)
All good feedback. However the one giant caveat is that most developers don't know how much memory their application needs.
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Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by moe on Monday June 18, 2012 @01:33PM
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That's why you (in addition to all that has been said) should make very clear how easy it is to up- and downgrade.
Also there could be small hints next to the slider (yes, I'm a fan of sliders;)) as it snaps into the various positions...
But those are again just ideas. You should get a good designer on the case, this is their bread & butter.
Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by x1 on Monday June 18, 2012 @01:55PM
(#4127637)
That's easily solved
Have a slider. When you move it have a window that lists what applications can be served with the selected allotment.
Hell... that'd be pretty damn cool looking
Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by cardmagic on Monday June 18, 2012 @01:04PM
(#4127386)
Most people don't know how much disk space an email takes, it didn't stop Gmail from just giving 2gb free disk space.
Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by pbreit on Monday June 18, 2012 @04:08PM
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But 2gb sounds like a lot and 32mb sounds like nothing. When a service like rackspace _starts_ at 256mb you wonder just what you are getting.
Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by shykes on Monday June 18, 2012 @10:18PM
(#4129904)
What you're getting is the ability to deploy linux containers with very fine-grained control over resource allocation. Maybe you're using redis as a job queue, or to hold a handful of counters. Maybe you're running nginx to serve static assets with custom rewrite rules. You can run it dotCloud and pay peanuts - knowing that you're one "dotcloud scale" away from all the gigabytes of ram you can eat.
Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by shykes on Monday June 18, 2012 @01:13PM
(#4127436)
Yes - exactly like dotCloud's sandbox :)
Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by cardmagic on Monday June 18, 2012 @01:26PM
(#4127499)
Except Gmail isn't just free for drafting emails, it is free when you send them to real people too.
Re:DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model
by KenCochrane on Monday June 18, 2012 @03:48PM
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dotCloud doesn't have ads, to pay for the service like gmail. :)