there is NO free lunch in nature, and it’s about time that every relationship accounted for this. (as in other countries, and finally here.) we had a good cornucopian run in the 80s, 90s, 00s… back to reality 😉

you do realize the internet won’t exist in 20 years right? :p keep up the good work.

cheers,
ken

I went to the support site, saw the drop-down menu for free/common/routine support issues, and thought, “Hot damn that is a good idea”. Makes it very clear which admin tasks are admin tasks only because they haven’t been automated or put in the UI (or are too security-sensitive to be automated), and which are things the user should be paying for.

Nice work, as always.

I’ve come to the conclusion that this price restructuring is fair and will actually help clamp down on the spam and wastage on the internet as a whole. If you don’t want to incur the extra fees, you have to cut down on the usage certain extra features costs for resources. Thereby, many of you can maintain low costs by switching to a “static” type of site.

I think the old NFS slogan still stands “only pay for what you use”, remember “dynamic” sites take up more resources for even the tiniest of calls

And, JDW writes great posts. Former English major maybe? They’re almost fun to read.

Never stop candid blogs like these. They remind me how secure my investment is above any other host I’ve dealt with.

Anyway, I’m new here, and I was a little worried to see prices going up just after I started. But the prices are still low, and the openness of the process is impressive. So I’m staying.

“After a year you just get another one” was what pushed us to conclude that he understood exactly what he was proposing. -jdw

However, given that my site is not for making money, and thus does not pay for itself, I’m trying to figure out what the actual cost to me will be since I don’t make very much money. The accounts page is great for figuring out how much money I have left in my account, but very difficult to figure out how much it costs me per month because debits and cash deposits are combined on the “activity summary” table. Furthermore, it is difficult to filter out one type of cost from another–i.e., separating out bandwith costs to see how they vary, vs. storage costs, so that I can figure out where I need to be more economical.

Finally, you said that you used for yourself a calculator that estimated what the new costs would be to your users–it would be great to have access to that calculator from the accounts page. For example, if there was a button I could click which would show me what my account would cost with the new pricing plan had it been in effect for the time period currently being displayed on my Account Activity page, that would be awesome!

I realize this may require a lot of work on your part. Any piece of it that you could do without too much trouble would be very worth it.

Comments that meet the guidelines (and don’t advocate fraud) should be approved. I do think your example is not very good, though, as the WordPress blog you posted it to (this one) is significantly busier than the average member WordPress blog, but costs us a whole lot less to run than your made-up numbers, so you’re talking about $38/year to run a very large, very active blog, which seems entirely reasonable. We base our prices on what we believe is fair, and you’re welcome to agree or disagree and make your hosting decision accordingly.

Beyond that, I’m really not interested in comparisons to other hosting companies’ package pricing plans; no doubt someone can show how silly that is by digging up one of those “X TB for $Y.95/month” plans that come out to a bajillion dollars a year if you plug those “package” numbers into our estimator. Comparing apples and (forgive me) oranges — or anything else — based solely on price is just as bad of an idea as it ever was. We trust that people will continue to consider a lot of options when they choose a host, and that the option they choose will frequently (but not always) be NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. -jdw

I’ve been very impressed with your service and ethics, and am happy to pay a little more for them.

If you start .uk domain registration at any point I’d be quite happy to move my domains over to you too.

So thanks.

There was quite a bit of debate about whether to approve this comment, since it appears to advocate getting cheaper hosting by defrauding one of our competitors. The link has been removed; if someone is going to advocate treating our competitors that way, they’re going to do it somewhere else.

Please note no more comments even remotely similar to this are going to get approved. -jdw