Re:Accident Forgiveness
by tptacek on Friday August 23, 2024 @03:44PM
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Why isn't one of those providers roflstomping the other 3 (add OCI to the mix) with better pricing?
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Because they land your data in their systems by offering you a sweetheart deal in year 1-2 and then they jack the price back to the extortionate level once you're stuck. Compute is portable between providers, but data is not.
With such a small group, chances are they all figured out that a race to the bottom won’t reach the desired long term outcome.
"roflstomping"¿ What does it mean?
Re:Accident Forgiveness
by ShroudedNight on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:40PM
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A beligerent that so completely outclasses their opponent that they can inflict existentially threatening losses with so little effort that its expenditure is indistinguishable from normal overhead
Alternatively, when Stitches managed to ambush your level appropriate character alone in Duskwood
Re:Accident Forgiveness
by stackghost on Friday August 23, 2024 @09:53PM
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It's from online gaming. To stomp means to defeat soundly/easily. To ROFL is to roll on the floor laughing.
To roflstomp is to defeat someone so easily and completely that it becomes so comical you'll be ROFL.
Downvotes? How strange.
I've often wondered about this. I'm guessing large customers can all negotiate extremely deep discounts on bandwidth from all three providers. Smaller customers may not be paying that much in bandwidth that it would be decisive. I think also that if say GCP cut its bandwidth charges by 10x they might attract customers they really don't want.