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It's good they added this - their customer support rep told me this was coming soon. That's after I told them I wasn't recommending them anymore because you can no longer get an account without a $50/mo/service fee as of a few weeks ago.

Might try this out, but pretty happy with AWS.

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Remember; that 50$/mo fee was rolled into the product prices before. That's why under the old model a 4gb server cost 1/3 of 4, 1gb boxes. The new pricing lowers the infrastructure prices (and levels them so 1gb of ram == 1gb of ram) but clearly states the support fee as a whole.

Note, the minimum fee only triggers if you use Cloud Servers, or OnMetal.

Yeah, I use cloud servers. I think the bill on one of my grandfathered account has been ~$16/mo - under the new system I believe it would be $50/mo.

You're grandfathered in then - sounds like you're running an old 512mb next gen machine

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