CloudatCon aka CloudatCost

Danp

Still waiting on my Paypal dispute to go through. In the mean time, saw this interesting exchange on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mylifethisworld/status/597246317115666432

Today was the last time they could respond to my paypal claim so I guess paypal will refund my money tomorrow or so as they haven't responded.

Danp

@thecreativeone91 Still a few days before the time is up on mine. Let us know if you receive the refund.

Danp

https://twitter.com/cloudatcost/status/597479298031726593
https://twitter.com/cloudatcost/status/597526965961101312

So, they plan to eliminate all of the old plans, and they advertise SSD but then deliberately limit your IO without notifying you.

@Danp said:

https://twitter.com/cloudatcost/status/597479298031726593
https://twitter.com/cloudatcost/status/597526965961101312

So, they plan to eliminate all of the old plans, and they advertise SSD but then deliberately limit your IO without notifying you.

So now C@C is discounting the old stuff.. hmm @scottalanmiller would love to see this.

Sparkum

I think we all knew/assumed they would be getting rid of the old options.

Honestly as a business move this might actually bring some income in for them.

Had to get rid of the "one price forever" option eventually.

IRJ

Our New Cloud Pro Redundant Datacenter

@IRJ said:

Our New Cloud Pro Redundant Datacenter

I see they upgraded the monitor console to a nice latest gen model as well.

@Sparkum said:

I think we all knew/assumed they would be getting rid of the old options.

Honestly as a business move this might actually bring some income in for them.

Had to get rid of the "one price forever" option eventually.

One time won't go away. See with as bad as they are if they pay for 30 days they will stop paying after that and that's the end of that. Charge them a one time fee that's much higher but not crazy they will pay and use it for a short time and then quit using it. and C@C gets more money for about the same use.

Sparkum

@thecreativeone91

180 days with Paypal to get a refund though as they're not experiencing though haha

@Sparkum said:

@thecreativeone91

180 days with Paypal to get a refund though as they're not experiencing though haha

It's only suppose to be 60 days, 45 for a dispute.

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter/helphub/article/?solutionId=FAQ2393

Sparkum

I was simply going off of this.

scottalanmiller

Crippled boxes that act like they've been DOS'd to prevent being DOS'd. Could these guys be more clueless or deceptive? Technically limiting like that IS a form of DOS.

@scottalanmiller said:

Crippled boxes that act like they've been DOS'd to prevent being DOS'd. Could these guys be more clueless or deceptive? Technically limiting like that IS a form of DOS.

I think they mean a DDoS attack not just Denial of service haha.

scottalanmiller

Maybe, but I don't think so. Who knows. They are just making crap up anyway.

"You seem misinformed" because we lied about it before, so we are making up something different this time. they need an ERP to keep there lies straight.

scottalanmiller

They probably have one.

nadnerB

@Danp said:

https://twitter.com/cloudatcost/status/597479298031726593
https://twitter.com/cloudatcost/status/597526965961101312

So, they plan to eliminate all of the old plans, and they advertise SSD but then deliberately limit your IO without notifying you.

Oh that makes me mad. Good thing that I didn't buy my server. I'd be right pissed if I had spent/was spending money on them. Couldn't they just monitor disk array IOPS and query the clients hammering the system?... hang on, isn't the reason you sign up for a VPS to use it for what ever you want, within reason?

Is there some kind of consumer protection in Canada? Can they be spit roasted over their SSD claims?

scottalanmiller

They only claimed to offer SSD, not to offer a certain speed. They are really using SSD...... on a SAN. It's not local SSD. That people made the assumption that the SSD were local, were fast or were uncapped is literally just an unfounded assumption.

scottalanmiller

Remember they also claim that because they did not state explicitly to be production ready (which they don't claim about anything they do) that they are just a demo service not meant to be used.