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Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service

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Post by wutwutwat »

guraf wrote: post #61
wutwutwat wrote: post #53

> On platforms such as DigitalOcean and AWS, they can be way cheaper. Then immediately follows with specs and prices: > Replit.com - $6.40/month > 2.199GHz/1GB RAM/10GB transfer vs > DigitalOcean.com - $6.00/month > 2.494GHz/1GB RAM/1TB transfer EDIT: I originally misread 10GB as 10TB - I'll still maintain that it likely doesn't matter. It's a managed VM where deployments are handled for you, for $0.40 more, and if t…

Your own quote says 10GB from replit vs 1,000GB from digital ocean. So, assuming your own quote is correct, DO is indeed way cheaper for anything that is more than a toy.

adjusted my comment, apparently you've all pointed out a bug with my meat cpu

Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service

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Post by wutwutwat »

boguscoder wrote: post #59
wutwutwat wrote: post #53

> On platforms such as DigitalOcean and AWS, they can be way cheaper. Then immediately follows with specs and prices: > Replit.com - $6.40/month > 2.199GHz/1GB RAM/10GB transfer vs > DigitalOcean.com - $6.00/month > 2.494GHz/1GB RAM/1TB transfer EDIT: I originally misread 10GB as 10TB - I'll still maintain that it likely doesn't matter. It's a managed VM where deployments are handled for you, for $0.40 more, and if t…

Not commenting on price but have you confused 10GB with 10 TB or am I reading everything wrong

adjusted my comment, apparently you've all pointed out a bug with my meat cpu

Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service

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Post by wutwutwat »

mksreddy wrote: post #60
wutwutwat wrote: post #53

> On platforms such as DigitalOcean and AWS, they can be way cheaper. Then immediately follows with specs and prices: > Replit.com - $6.40/month > 2.199GHz/1GB RAM/10GB transfer vs > DigitalOcean.com - $6.00/month > 2.494GHz/1GB RAM/1TB transfer EDIT: I originally misread 10GB as 10TB - I'll still maintain that it likely doesn't matter. It's a managed VM where deployments are handled for you, for $0.40 more, and if t…

I didn’t read the article but your numbers seem to compare 1GB with 10TB.

fixed comment

Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service

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Post by wutwutwat »

xjia wrote: post #62
wutwutwat wrote: post #53

> On platforms such as DigitalOcean and AWS, they can be way cheaper. Then immediately follows with specs and prices: > Replit.com - $6.40/month > 2.199GHz/1GB RAM/10GB transfer vs > DigitalOcean.com - $6.00/month > 2.494GHz/1GB RAM/1TB transfer EDIT: I originally misread 10GB as 10TB - I'll still maintain that it likely doesn't matter. It's a managed VM where deployments are handled for you, for $0.40 more, and if t…

Because it's 10GB not 10TB?

Thanks, didn't notice earlier

Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

opportune wrote: post #25
folivore wrote: post #7

I get that losing access to things you got used to sucks. At the same time, IMO, this post comes across quite entitled and whiny. Nobody owes you anything, specially not free hosting and/or server time forever. That stuff isn’t cheap and isn’t easy to manage, and they’re paying people and infra on what I imagine isn’t a great return. So, free users are sad because it’s not the free they want it to be, except the free…

As someone who has done the technical work of converting a product with a free-tier to a paid product, I mostly agree. I think the problem mostly stems from the transition being inherently painful to a lot of users - it’s not really reasonable IMO for them to expect hosted software to be free forever but it’s definitely frustrating for them to transition off of it if they can’t or won’t pay for some reason. In my par…

> but students are particularly impacted

That's a failure of the product/marketing planners then - there's a great deal of positive value that comes from offering free (or heavily discounted) plans for verified students, for example. There's a reason why Adobe and Autodesk tolerate, to a certain extent, unlicensed/piracy of their tools, especially in markets where even their educational-discounts are still too expensive for many to afford.

Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service

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Post by kredd »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #19
folivore wrote: post #7

I get that losing access to things you got used to sucks. At the same time, IMO, this post comes across quite entitled and whiny. Nobody owes you anything, specially not free hosting and/or server time forever. That stuff isn’t cheap and isn’t easy to manage, and they’re paying people and infra on what I imagine isn’t a great return. So, free users are sad because it’s not the free they want it to be, except the free…

> ...why didn’t you pay for the thing you complain about? If something means something to you, adds value to your life, or saves you time, maybe it’s worth considering paying for it if the value provided is worth the cost. Demanding free stuff is entitled and silly and needs to stop. At risk of derailing this conversation, but a common problem today is that oftentimes the companies offering a free service simply won'…

If supporting paid model costs more than what they make from paid users, why would a company implement it? Me, you, and most of engineers are in extreme minority for our willingness to pay for stuff to avoid ads. So you’ll get a very tiny percentage of people paying for a service where you hope you’ll recoup your investments after some years. Maybe never.

Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service

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Post by [deleted] »

humbleharbinger wrote: post #27
simpaticoder wrote: post #11

Rent a $5/mo Linux VPS and be happy. I think more people should do this because what you learn (and you'll learn a lot) is the foundation of everything else. Do this even if you are a programmer used to deploying to sophisitcated CI/CD stacks and k8s. The tight resource constraints (e.g. 1G RAM) are good for you - they make you think, and take care what you run and when you run it. Learn to setup ssh on both ends; le…

I went this route and got taken over by hackers multiples times. It was very worth it. I got taken over by hackers because my password for ssh was "mars". Me and my little brother were sharing it and wanted an easy password (yeah we have ssh keys now). Anyways, we both learnt a lot (htop tmux etc) . I'm always jealous that he got to learn everything earlier than me. But if he's not better than me then I consider myse…

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Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service

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Post by CJefferson »

coder543 wrote: post #26
whalesalad wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- https://www.linode.com/pricing/#compute-shared - https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/ - https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets

also, https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/#Virtual_servers lots of hosting providers with cheap options these days.

Well, it’s cheap until a badly behaved script starts sending lots of data and Amazon charges your card a huge bill (unless they’ve finally got around to hard price caps?)

Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service

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Post by vorpalhex »

folivore wrote: post #7

I get that losing access to things you got used to sucks. At the same time, IMO, this post comes across quite entitled and whiny. Nobody owes you anything, specially not free hosting and/or server time forever. That stuff isn’t cheap and isn’t easy to manage, and they’re paying people and infra on what I imagine isn’t a great return. So, free users are sad because it’s not the free they want it to be, except the free…

It's not just that it isn't free, it's that prices are much higher, previous (paid!) hobbyist plans are basically useless and their pricing sucks compared to alternatives, with no features to support the higher price.

So yes, they dislike it and want to let people know it sucks. Replit is welcome to charge what they want. Former users are welcome to post a public website of what they think of the changes.

Re: Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service

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Post by ipaddr »

folivore wrote: post #7

I get that losing access to things you got used to sucks. At the same time, IMO, this post comes across quite entitled and whiny. Nobody owes you anything, specially not free hosting and/or server time forever. That stuff isn’t cheap and isn’t easy to manage, and they’re paying people and infra on what I imagine isn’t a great return. So, free users are sad because it’s not the free they want it to be, except the free…

I disagree they owe everyone the promises they have been sending out over the last 8 years if they fail to live upto that it affects what they represent to people. The brand is damaged. Having said that they have a base of customers and press (no press is bad press) so the strategy worked.

I remember them showing up on here. I knew this wasn't going to last.

Cloud Flare will be in a similiar spot in the future.

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