Comments on: Price cuts, more security and recovery options

By: vv

vv — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 08:51:09 +0000

For my tiny sites with almost no traffic (storage and bandwidth costs are measured in single cents) stochastic billing on one static site raised my costs by about tenfold. So I deleted that static site, and just continue using my old non-stochastic static sites.

Although the numbers you’re talking about are small enough to be random, there may be another explanation, like some aspect of the site that is particularly inefficient, or a resource-intensive scheduled task. The average resource billing for static stochastic sites for the past month is about 2.8 cents and well over half were less than a penny. -jdw

By: jdw

jdw — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 00:30:03 +0000

In reply to aru. There is essentially no one for whom the non-stochastic static type was a benefit, so it is no longer available for new sites. -jdw

By: aru

aru — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:07:44 +0000

Whew, I was wondering for a while why there was a “Suspended Animation” option around. I tried to view it, and I think it’s a good idea for people who might need more than a 30 day grace period.

I made a new site just a few moments ago on the same account that I have my other one, and I wondered why I could not find a plan identical to the old one, which did not have any charges for RAU. The only static option I found this time was Static – Stochastic (Static-S), and not the Static — we’ll see how this one compares to the site under Static servers.

By: Tom Cloyd

Tom Cloyd — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 04:49:15 +0000

In all honesty, I have barely a clue what you’re talking about in most of this page, but that last section – TLDR – looks possibly decipherable. As I’m an exceptionally busy professional person in a discipline notorious for IT ignorance, I will have to revisit “TLDR” when I can find some time in the near future, and see how much of it I can work through. I regret to inform you that not everyone here is a computer whiz. Yes, I program in Ruby, and build all my own websites, and have for years, but when I come here my ignorance really shows. Fair warning. I may have to show up in the forum(s) soon, pleading for help. 🙂

By: Christopher Denman

Christopher Denman — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:15:47 +0000

Suspended animation looks really useful.

One potentially useful option would be to opt out of Respect My Privacy in the event that Suspended Animation kicks in. (Obviously not for everyone, but when you’re getting to the stage where you want to try and keep things alive for as long as possible, privacy might not be so high up on the list for some people).

By: jdw

jdw — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:46:18 +0000

In reply to gbm85. The membership and account discounts are combined for all sites on that account. (That's how you can get down as low as $0.15/GiB - a max of $0.05 from each.) -jdw

By: gbm85

gbm85 — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 22:09:54 +0000

Are the bandwidth discounts combined, or does the system pick the bigger discount and use that?

By: matt p

matt p — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:57:11 +0000

excellent update! so glad to see my fav hosting site is progressing. Been a member for a long time, perfectly satisfied with your service! keep up the great work

By: Pete S.

Pete S. — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 14:45:50 +0000

Excellent! Thanks for adding these extra options. In particular, I particularly like that you used the standard OATH-TOTP. The fact that your SMS verification also supports non-US numbers is nice too.

By: cliff1976

cliff1976 — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 07:25:21 +0000

Thanks!

I tried out points 2, 3, and 4 above and it all went smoothly.

I appreciate the extra commitment to security. Probably like most people, I’ve got nothing to hide from any authorities, but still don’t appreciate snooping. And anything I can do to reduce the risk of identity fraud makes me sleep a little more soundly.

Well done!