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@host_c — when one has a problem with bad customers, one gets rid of them. You should remove just the bad apples, not the whole fruit basket.

If many low-end orders were from scalpers and resellers using bots, and those accounts had many promo offers, simply send a ticket to them to choose and keep just one service at low-end promo price. That way you would have reduced the number of cheap plans due to market crisis, but not reduce the number of clients. This would have also helped identify who uses bots on LET and has many cheap plans, because they would have complained afterwards on LET like any proper MJJ would.

Instead of thinking some logical approach to retain customers with one cheap low-end plan on their account, then have them revisit your portal and maybe your offers in future, you have decided to get rid of all of those plans and all those customers. Hopefully you made a wise decision, I am in no position to judge. In my case, I already made plans to carry on and move my data to another provider. Now I'm just here for the popcorn.

Motion3549

@Levi said:

@emgh said:

@Levi said:
Service cancellations like these makes massive damage (often unrepairable) to reputation of provider. But who cares…

At the new prices I don't think that matters too much, I don't think the point is to keep the cheap LET clientele

It is often a huge mistake to ignore roots where all started. When you disrespect the niche - you receive backfire, often leading to bankruptcy in the long run. B2B segment is entirely different thing and most low end suppliers is just not fit to handle that.

I’m no roots

rdes

@host_c said:
B2B is much easier to manage. The rules are clear, the prices paid are substantially higher, and when it comes to abuse, B2B is a walk in the park compared with what cheap promotional offers can attract from certain forums.

You do some maintenance when nothing works for dozen or so hours typically once a month, not to mention IP changes, constant changes in plans, offers that require migration because something is already end of line, end of sales, whatever, etc. Get a grip, no pro user will pay a few dollars for a single-homed VPS in Romania, let alone an enterprise one.

farsighter

RIP my 4x Panama promo. Thanks @host_c for these amazing 2 years. Soon I guess it'll be time to go back to Hostbrrr

tzuli

@rdes you should fix the quote. This came from @emgh, not @host_c

JohnFilch123

@Rubben said:

@host_c said:

@emgh said:

@host_c said:

@rpqu said:
@host_c You want to dive another rabbit hole?
https://deref.net/?https://linux.do

“We are not targeting communities or customer segments primarily driven by account trading, resource arbitrage, promotional exploitation, or expectations that conflict with our Acceptable Use Policy.”

THX, but we are not interested.

Do you have enterprise clients ready to take on all of the free space that this may contribute to?

I cannot disclose info such as that, for obvious reasons.

But I said it before, we come from B2B, we always had B2B customers.

Who do you think kept the lights running on your 7 USD / Year service?

Hello I am enterprise client

Goodbye your imaginative collection is not welkomed here.

rdes

Cut out the wrong quote, I've already corrected it.

magicvpn

@default said: There was a time when I considered HOST-C one of the best providers. Not anymore, not after this. Even if HOST-C comes with great deals in future, I won't order.

Same here, if a host increases the price by this much, when will they do it again?
Even if I keep my 60$/y service (which is ex taxes, if I'm not mistaken, so I'd be paying a lot more). Will they make it 120$ next year? Hardware prices aren't expected to go down soon...

NotFoundException

@host_c said:

@emgh said:

@host_c said:

@rpqu said:
@host_c You want to dive another rabbit hole?
https://deref.net/?https://linux.do

“We are not targeting communities or customer segments primarily driven by account trading, resource arbitrage, promotional exploitation, or expectations that conflict with our Acceptable Use Policy.”

THX, but we are not interested.

Do you have enterprise clients ready to take on all of the free space that this may contribute to?

I cannot disclose info such as that, for obvious reasons.

But I said it before, we come from B2B, we always had B2B customers.

Who do you think kept the lights running on your 7 USD / Year service?

I wonder what’s the obvious reason, since they didn’t ask for a name? Isn’t this information every company would love to disclose as having enterprise customers make the value of a company go up a lot?