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OT: Not to sound negative, but I always find it strange to see these 'popular' banners on these (now standard) pricing pages. I'm sure for such a new product no pricing plan is yet 'popular' or do they already have so many customers?
OT: Not to sound negative, but I always find it strange to see these 'popular' banners on these (now standard) pricing pages. I'm sure for such a new product no pricing plan is yet 'popular' or do they already have so many customers?
I've seen enough pricing pages to know that "popular" really means "recommended", but with the added benefit of social proof.
WOW that's expensive for no good reason. I can get a server like this for about 10% of the price at for example OVH. Apart from being based in Swiss which I'm sure you're not the only host, what does this have to offer that's worth the 1000% higher price?
It's in Switzerland, which is one of the most expensive countries.
Is Bitcoin and/or paysafecard an payment option? all that talk about privacy is kinda silly if can not pay with (Semi)private payment methods edit: why downvote? is this not a valid concern for a service that is marketing privacy as its main pro?
The first part of the page is dominated by the demo on the right on both and the tag-line and signup on the left. The workflow for creating a VPS is basically the same right down to selecting an SSH key. Even the demo video is surrounded by the same minimalist OS X-like window. It isn't a standard library that they both share, but rather a visual copying.
It seems tacky to use the same home page. More than that, I've used a bunch of different providers (Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, Rackspace, OVH) and they all have very different control panel interfaces showing distinct development. It seems like they simply copied DigitalOcean's interface as much as possible.
Going back to the home page, the second part is a three column bit with info about the service and each column is dominated by a giant icon, just like DigitalOcean. Next comes the pricing boxes on each. Both have a "what people have said about" section. Both put another signup box right before the footer. Both have the same grey footer. Even the headers in the footer (like "PRODUCT") are all-caps like DigitalOcean. The whole home page is just a rip off of the whole flow and style of DigitalOcean.
The fact that they simply ripped off DigitalOcean's user interface seems to discredit their claim that they're "For Developers Who Care". They don't care enough to do more than blatantly copy a competitors design (and then charge a premium by mentioning the name "Swiss" a lot). Cloudscale - For Developers Who Like Making Blatant Rip-Offs?
That might sound harsh, but DigitalOcean has worked hard to gain its reputation and trust in the community. To have someone with no reputation (yet) simply copy their design, possibly out of a combination of laziness and trying to ride DigitalOcean's coattails, seems really crappy (especially when they're trying to claim that they're for people that care).
Iceland is a country worth investigating when it comes to hosting.
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I've seen enough pricing pages to know that "popular" really means "recommended", but with the added benefit of social proof.
Wow, you actually believe that? To me 'popular' means 'has the best margins for us'.
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If you are looking at their website using a browser connected to the internet, you don't need to do currency conversions in you head and memorise the exchange rates every morning, you can just use that same browser to ask for a currency conversion from any of a number of sites, e.g. https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?#q=1%20chf%20in%20usd https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1chf+in+usd&ia=currency http://www.wolframalpha.com/input…
You do have a point, but it still would be more convenient if the website showed the price in USD\other currencies as well.