The pricing seems very fair, you should make it more prevalent.
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#112You should disable bitcoin somehow, or this will end very, very badly for you.
Part of the goal in the beta is to improve the abuse processes and profiling abusive users based on the small amount of data we collect (Github account/ssh keys) with the goal of creating a process that lets us effectively block abusive users without creating higher barriers for others to get started. We'll be tweaking things as we go and whether to keep the Bitcoin option will depend on what the measurable effect of…
If that's the angle you are going to take, you should send me a message, will at the company I work for, bitaccess.co
We have a lot of experience mitigating fraud and identifying fraudulent accounts. Might be able to give you a few pointers and save you some time.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the point someone's wanting something for a month, why wouldn't they go pay $5 to DigitalOcean, vs. $10 to you?
Why wouldn't Dply just become a DigitalOcean reseller and only cost $5? I could definately see this working out as a customer aquistion channel for DO, eith Dply getting a referral fee.
Because he works for AWS :D. But ditto for AWS
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#115Sounds pretty cool. I was confused where to get the pricing with the text "Keep it longer for as little as $2 via Credit Card or Bitcoin". I had to go to the FAQ to know how much time $2 gave me. This is definitely for work you could live without, i.e. don't use it for production services. The automatically deleted approach as the first message does lower the trust of stuff not disappearing under your feet. I think t…
I actually think its a great model.
easy to deploy, easy to clean up afterwards. exactly how "Cloud" should be.
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#116I've seen a number of services just like this that come and go because of the persistent abuse problems this kind of thing attracts. Perhaps using github for authentication will help but I'm skeptical of how far it will get you. Do you have any other novel strategies to reduce the abuse problem?
What kind of abuse has caused problems for the other services?
First, it can cost way too much money for the service to be sustainable. Second, it opens up many liability issues. Third, your upstream provider can stop the service when they feel there's any kind of a problem at all – even if you work for Amazon.
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#117Nice service! I could see this being really useful for web scraping or for offloading compilation. (Or any relatively short computation, really.) I caught a bit of an awkward sentence on the FAQ though: "Unless specifically specified otherwise.." Just "specified" will do :)
Wouldn't web scraping be considered abusive usage as it is frowned upon by most websites?
It could be done in an abusive way, certainly.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you saying one can / can't spin up a free two-hour server more than once?
Let me quote the parent post: > Yes.
Thanks for pointing out that I should be clearer.
Really what I was seeking is to clarify the ambiguity in the parent post's "yes but sometimes no" answer.
Presumably the creator has some limitation in mind such as one user can only spin up so many free 2-hour boxes per 24-hour period, 30-day period, etc. I don't think this was answered clearly as the current answer does not define any limitations which is presumably not reality or it would be abused.
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#119This is a really neat service. Thanks, I probably will get some leverage out of this.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
When there are no costs, it makes sense spin up anything. You literally can't lose. It's just opportunity costs at that point.
Unless you missed the no API part. If it takes a person 5 clicks to launch an instance, the reward has to pay for the cost. Why aren't people using AWS free tier to Bitcoin mine? Seems a bad prop.
I am sure that some people did try to use the free tier, and that AWS probably has some decent controls in place to monitor for this type of activity. They are also a MASSIVE company that can absorb loss much easier than a startup. [1]
As far as the API goes, I don't know if you're aware of how hacking works, but not having an api has protected exactly no one ever. Calling your application secure because "it has a button, not an API" is completely absurd. [2]
As far as costs, you understand that people do thousands of tasks on mechanic turk for pennies right? 5 clicks to make a penny or two isn't out of the question, EVEN WITHOUT AUTOMATION, when the cost for living in some parts of the world is egregiously low. [3]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818015
[2] http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/01_introducing_selenium.jsp
[3] http://online-job-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/mechan...
