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VPS hosting too! I'm still paying 20/mo for 360MB RAM just as I was almost two years ago. What's the deal with that?


Email them and tell them to upgrade you. Most companies will do it, since they don't want to lose a customer like you who can overpay for 2 years w/o complaining.


eh, some are, some aren't. for $20/month, I give you a gig of ram. (I'm out of space until I get my new server in this evening, which tells me that my prices are low)


.. you're getting ripped off? Can you change vendors?


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My guess is lallysingh believes that tocomment is paying $20/month just for a RAM upgrade, and not for a full VPS that happens to have 360MB of RAM (he was unclear, but I assume he's on Linode like you). I can't think of a better deal at that cost.


To clarify, the plan is 20/mo which include 360MB RAM. I'm just saying it's odd the plan hasn't gone done in price in 2 years.


the price hasn't gone down in two years, but the resources have more than tripled. . .


I think I signed up for 360MB two years ago at the same price. Have other resources increased? Bandwidth? CPU?

Don't get the wrong idea, I love the service, and the prices are still very competitive, it just seems strange in general that prices aren't falling faster. My own VPS experience is the only concrete example I have so that's why I mention it.


2 years ago $19.95 got you 100MB RAM, 4GB disk, 50GB transfer and a slower technology/CPU. Now you get 360/12/200 with Xen and SMP -- http://tinyurl.com/7jvrx4


It makes perfect sense if they are depreciating the hardware over more than two years.


You using Linode?




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