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Sounds like 100% more than many providers on here.
Yups me too, other providers seems can provide similiar price with their new price with better performance.
so what mean? they not offer anymore this service?
It's not been even a year since I pecked on this bait, which clearly states "forever" (which in time4vps world means "9 months"), and moved my non-storage servers to time4vps.
It's not much of a deal to move somewhere else, but it will take another weekend to do that.
Disappointing!
Hm, or maybe that's not changing as it was already "new" packages?.. I surely cannot change billing cycle without losing the discount, but I may be able to keep the discount if I don't move.
Anyway, I also have a couple of Storage VPS instances, where I'm surely affected.
Sheesh, the entitlement is strong with this one.
If you are in any way unsatisfied with the company and care to share negative emotions in public, why do you still with them? Why do you keep renewing your services? These practices are not rarity among corporations and has tendency to get worse and worse.
I never insulted you in any way, if you feel that - please forgive me, as it was not intentional.
Recurring packages won't be affected. For clarity you can always contact our support team and they will provide you with exact info
Any changes coming up with @hostens? @time4vps
again time4vps was not not banned on here?
Remember Chris' promised "changes"?
You are seeing it.
time4chicagovps
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@time4vps mine was expiring on 2021-09-02 and I renewed for 2 years now (biannual payment cycle), can I renew for as many years as I wish before the price increase?
At first I thought it was due to the move to kvm because of EOL of openvz 6 in november, but if it is still ovz, prices are too high...
@crem I just confirmed hosts purchased on this deal will not be effected.
Wow!
My current plan is not set to renew until 2021, and it's currently 287.76 Eur every 2 years. Looks like the new price is 679.00 for a new 2-year term, nearly a 400 euro increase! Hopefully Time4VPS will reconsider their discount code policy.
I'm not benefiting anything from using my service "for free" until my service term expires, as there are no resource changes, as confirmed above. For an extra 400 euro I would hope for a somewhat better plan. I wish Time4VPS would have been more transparent here.
This reminds me of the switch from ANALOG to DIGITAL TV, and at least one cable provider riding the wave of requiring "adapters" to watch TV; they then started scrambling ATSC signals and required boxes. So, are we to assume, because of the ripple effect of some service providers like CPanel these egregious increases will continue?
Wow. There's a lot of 'surprised' people here.
Haven't you been listening to our resident prophet @deank ?
Plan accordingly. Hoard storage dealz
The end is always nigh, folks. Plan accordingly.
Weird thing happens here:
I had a M package for 35,92 per year using 10 GB with 2 GB memory, suddenly they upgrade to the highest package C8 5,99 per month package!
This is not in line with my current package,this should a C2 package !
Absolutely. A lot of providers will take the already bad news from most hosts dealing with cPanel as good cover fire to hike rates on their services. It makes sense, why deal with the bad press all on your own when you can mix it in as background noise.
A few years ago Target shuttered their entire Canada operations with almost no notice, something like 200 stores closed throughout the country in one go. When everyone was losing their shit and the news was focused on that, Sony did the exact same thing later in the week and almost no one remembers about it since Target provided cover for them.
The market needs it. You have too many companies running at near losses, or in many cases, they need the next round of huge discounts/sales/signups to pay today's bills. The Hostmantis hikes come off that way to me.
Francisco
CPanel 3.0, surprise.
1 Day in advance, before shit gets downgraded, well done.
Well if it's renewable til september 1, that's 1 month notice which isn't so terrible. The price jump really is very large (I miscalculated it last night) but still I'd encourage jvnadr to switch to decaf for a while. The old plans were unsustainable like all of us were saying.
You have less than 24 hours to renew according to the email, any renewals after that take effect at the higher rate
You insulted him by not reading his post and replying to him anyway. Again. You keep asking questions he already answered, so that's annoying.
Yeah I'm going by the post earlier this thread:
but it's all confusing. If someone has a plan about to expire and wants to keep it, I'd hope they'd have renewed by now. Otherwise they get at least 1 month to migrate, which is much lower drama than 1 day.
Maybe I need some vacations!
NOTHING in my opinion excuses a price increase of 200-300%. And their plans where cheap, but not alpharacks cheap. Even more (at least for storage) when they run those plans for over 4 years and the hardware has already got their money back.
There are unsustainable plans that are yelling it from miles away. But those plans come mostly from kiddos / summer hosters that are trying to collect some quick backs and soon enough disappear.
On the other hand, someone could call some of @AnthonySmith 's plans really unsustainable, much more some @Francisco 's plans ($20/y shared reseller hosting with dedicated ipv4, until the CPanel shitty move?). Or Contabo's plans, that they are there for more than 8 years and are really stable (I use them for more than 4 years). But they are not.
Besides, when a company owns the datacenter, their costs are less than providers like the respectful I mentioned before.
My urge came from the fact that players like CPanel or (of course, smaller) time4vps make those moves just because they can, not because they need desperately money and they are facing a huge loss.
Anyway, I am preparing now a cup of camomile to calm my temper...
́Everything we offer we turn a profit on.
Remember, we own all of our gear, routers, ips, and buy direct bandwidth. Our pricing/costs are much different than most hosts on here.
Francisco
I am sure you do and I know from first hand you offer an excellent service. That was my point. If a hosting provider is professional and capable, he can work for profit (as all of us) even with really discounted prices. And I am really sure you wouldn't even think about doing a price hike of 200-300% over your promotions, that's the difference with professionals like you and behavior like CPanel's one ore Time4vps's one...
Just tried to renew my service and found that the coupon code was only valid for one time use... Luckily I was having a 2-year plan and next renew is 2020-07...