Re: [WebDNA] Amazon EC2
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2009
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 102666
interpreted = N
texte = Hi Ken! >> We would then not make any money off of of this model. In >> other words, we would charge per instance the same as >> what we would pay to Amazon. Then, if a user wants to go >> live with any of their solutions, they would need to buy >> their license desired (per instance) from our store. > > I may have an unusual opinion about this, but it seems to me > that there's no reason NOT to make money off this model. > After all you're in business right? So why not charge a > simple $1 per hour with a minimum $10 charge? The pricing model is a complicated matter here: if we charge $1/hour, we would exclude the users interested to do their regular hosting with amazon: with 720 hours a month, a simple slice would cost the user almost $800 a month for just a DE license. If the user's plan is just running it few hours, then yes: but we would charge few dollars for a free license. So, our idea was to provide it for free: the customer will not be able to run more than 3 concurrent requests, which makes it useless for a web server, but is fine for a test. If (and he will!) the user is convinced, then he will buy his license with us and get a relatively cheap hosting at amazon, by just writing his Lic. number in the admin interface. Another point: what licensing model should we adopt if a user runs not one instance, but several instances of the same server (to add temporary extra capacity)? chris
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Hi Ken! >> We would then not make any money off of of this model. In >> other words, we would charge per instance the same as >> what we would pay to Amazon. Then, if a user wants to go >> live with any of their solutions, they would need to buy >> their license desired (per instance) from our store. > > I may have an unusual opinion about this, but it seems to me > that there's no reason NOT to make money off this model. > After all you're in business right? So why not charge a > simple $1 per hour with a minimum $10 charge? The pricing model is a complicated matter here: if we charge $1/hour, we would exclude the users interested to do their regular hosting with amazon: with 720 hours a month, a simple slice would cost the user almost $800 a month for just a DE license. If the user's plan is just running it few hours, then yes: but we would charge few dollars for a free license. So, our idea was to provide it for free: the customer will not be able to run more than 3 concurrent requests, which makes it useless for a web server, but is fine for a test. If (and he will!) the user is convinced, then he will buy his license with us and get a relatively cheap hosting at amazon, by just writing his Lic. number in the admin interface. Another point: what licensing model should we adopt if a user runs not one instance, but several instances of the same server (to add temporary extra capacity)? chris
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