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AppFog Changes Pricing Plan

by qilisiang on 3/26/13, 7:49 AM with 11 comments

• by bdfh42 on 3/26/13, 8:28 AM

  Why do people make such a fuss about changes in something that is free? In this case the changes did not apply to pre-existing free set-ups - just new ones.

  You are entitled to complain about contract changes when you are a party to that contract - and there is an exchange of money (or some similar negotiable item).

  Some people's sense of entitlement astonishes me.

• by qilisiang on 3/26/13, 7:53 AM

  Checkout google group discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/appfog-users/ryJqaUb...

  BW: 50GB -> 5GB

  Custom Domain: Not available on Free Plan Anymore

  Request per Second: Limit to 100 request per second for Free Plan, and other limit request as well

• by camus on 3/26/13, 12:37 PM

  People using the free service should not kid themself. It will have less and less features with time , and it is 100% normal since people always abuse what's free.

  But between the FREE and the 50$ offer there should be a place for a 5$/10$ offer. I dont understand why these SaaS never offer an entry level paid offer.

  50$/month is too much for students or freelancers who wants to test a project but need a contractual agreement between them and the provider. I ended up with a cheap VPN , used a cloudfoundry image, less expensive than these so called Saas.

  Furthermore i had hard time uploading big projects on their servers ... did not work at all.