Implement lower-tier offering
I love the simplicity of deploying apps with your service. Just a little bit of config, and then I don't need to worry about anything.
Once it's deployed, however, you begin offering some services that I don't need... and often have trouble justifying paying for. I don't need automatic scaling, monitoring, or backups.
It would be great if you considered offering a lower-tier service at a reduced cost that just deployed apps and let us manage them ourselves. A dashboard of all my apps would be enough for me to manage my low-traffic sites on my own, and it might bring the per-server cost down to something worth the little traffic I get.
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Jim commented
It's interesting to notice that will pay $5-10 (DO) for the hosting and $19 for a service to manage it... that's expensive!
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Joshua Pinter commented
I find Cloud66 extremely affordable, even for the most basic requirements. Especially paired with DigitalOcean's $5 / month server.
Out of curiosity, what's the price point you were thinking of?
/ JP