Re:Low Cost EC2 Instances With Burstable Performance
by lsc on Sunday July 06, 2014 @10:20PM
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Really? when they lower the price of the per-hour billing they don't lower the locked-in fees?
Huh. In the VPS market, from what I've seen, the rule is "treat your existing customers as well as your new customers"
while, say, the co-location market is like the real-estate market. "Subsidize your new customers, and if they are still alive when the lease is up, take profits in the form of much higher renewal rent."
I guess what you describe with pre-pays is sort of inbetween. There's a difference in most minds, I think, between raising a price and just not lowering it when you perhaps could be expected to. Most people new to the real-estate market feel pretty bent out of shape when they find out that they have to pay significantly more in rent to renew their existing contract than they will pay if they move.
Huh. In the VPS market, from what I've seen, the rule is "treat your existing customers as well as your new customers"
while, say, the co-location market is like the real-estate market. "Subsidize your new customers, and if they are still alive when the lease is up, take profits in the form of much higher renewal rent."
I guess what you describe with pre-pays is sort of inbetween. There's a difference in most minds, I think, between raising a price and just not lowering it when you perhaps could be expected to. Most people new to the real-estate market feel pretty bent out of shape when they find out that they have to pay significantly more in rent to renew their existing contract than they will pay if they move.