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Everything is getting more expensive these days.

My electricity price increased 50%. I did not get any extra features.

>>For me the problems are the massive reduction in storage from 3GB to 0.5GM along with this new notion of maximum views, set quite low. I think those two combined will likely drive a lot of people away.

>> Me too I am only seeing my storage as 500mb and I have had a free site since 2013.

Those people are whining because they have used service for almost ten years and never paid a penny for it. People should understand that things are never free forever.

500MB is enough for free plan. If you use more then it is reasonable to get premium plan or host it somewhere else for cheaper.

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Hosting text content online has been essentially free for two decades, and storage and bandwidth only got cheaper. $180/y is enough to serve a billion pageviews.

Unless you now have the overhead of a massive VC-funded organization that needs to grow and hit the expected return multiples. People are “whining” because this is a 180° turn from Wordpress’ origins and their mission of “democratizing publishing”.

It is also a ton of money for anyone outside the US and EU - it’s one month’s rent in most of Brazil.

I used to offer free image hosting and when I ended it, I got a lot of insults and bitching from freeloaders.

Giving away something for free, is something I will never do again.

Indian people were infamous sending their dick pics.

>Everything is getting more expensive these days.

Storage gets cheaper per MB

The opposite goes for offering the storage with traffic. AWS, gcloud, azure everyone had price adjustment last year especially on the storage side of things.

You’re saying AWS increased prices on something? Citation needed. They famously don’t do that.

They did have a price adjustment on storage, though… a 31% reduction for some use cases: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/s3-storage-class-price-...

Then why Dropbox, Google, OneDrive many other cloud providers have cut back their free packages?

Most likely, they want to make more money, and they no longer care how many free users they lose as long as some of them convert to paid customers.

Free users aren't generating revenue for them. In the past, it seemed like businesses had this idea that infinite free users would somehow lead to infinite revenue, but they seem to be moving away from this philosophy.

Storage has been getting cheaper every year. If a business is skimping on their free plan, it's not because of rising storage costs.

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