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It's super straight, straighter than Justin Bieber himself. Fun aside, if you really don't understand what I'm saying after all this, I have no words. Nevertheless, I happened to be reading the site in your sig a few days ago and I don't think you're stupid.
what about the old customer
The old customer who already had a freebie?
Always for new user.
That's how introductory offers work.
"Bitcoin may not be used with this promo. ", "PayPal may not be used with this promo." , It could be fun ..
Vultr is part of Constant Hosting, which is part of "Choopa Networks". I know both companies well and have done business with them in the past (Full Rack Colocation).
I've been itching to try their new Virtual server offering (Vultr) for a whlie now but just haven't done it due to time constraints (I want to actually be able to spend time testing it :P not just let it sit for 60 days lol)
Anyway... to everyone who says "It's deceptive" etc... No, it's really not. They flat out tell you "Free for 60 days, and then you will be billed monthly if you don't cancel before the 60 days is up". If you can't appreciate that they're letting you try a subscription-based offering for free, for the first 2 months, then that's a personal problem.
I remember when I was 18-19, I did one of those "Free iPod offers" as well as a "Free Nintendo DS" offer. I completed BOTH of them and received BOTH of them. Anyway, it required you to sign up for 5 "FREE" offers that you had to cancel within 14 days or you'd be billed the full 39.99/mo for each offer. One was a book club, one was a CD club, one was a magazine subscription to TIME, etc you get the picture. I printed out the 1800 # to cancel each and every one of them, put them all on a spreadsheet along with account #'s etc. made sure to cancel before 14 days, but not until after at least 7 days so it would show up on the "free ipod" site etc. once everything showed up, I made the calls to cancel, received confirmation #'s, Done. I got my ipod, and I ended up not canceling the TIME subscription because I actually enjoyed it.
So Hey, it requires some effort and work... Nothing is EVER "Free" (In the IPod case, it was lots of keeping track, and doing work to actually get it). you have to remember to cancel before the trial is over., it's not THAT hard..
PS: I still have the iPOD :P and it's sitting on my desk right now
Cool story bro.
No, it's no more part of "Choopa" (officially). Different company and now crownfunded:
Vultr is definitely still part of Choopa.
@alexvolk
Vultr is no less "choopa" than "Constant" is. they have a few different spinoffs for various marketing reasons. Choopa was always aimed towards low latency gaming servers and their huge BGP peering network. Constant's aim is towards colocation and dedicated servers, primarily for 100% uptime SLA etc. they discontinued their VPS / Cloud offering from Constant, and launched Vultr as a replacement, it's more targeted and focused for VPS users.
I know Choopa still offers transit too if you have fiber between one of their on-net locations and your building, whatever the cross connect fee is + like $2000/mo for interconnection. it's not cheap, but their bandwidth is actually pretty awesome. There were actually quite a few VPS companies who colocate inside their 101 Possumtown location and use their transit. (I used to use one before they closed up shop)
It's @joepie91, he's usually just here to complain.
This is actually an interesting point where Bitcoin could come into play if it wasn't so damn volatile.
The fact that you may not like their approach doesn't change the fact that it's still 60 days of free service (limited to $50).
There's usually an annual fee for having the card (just like there is one for having a bank account). Other than that, most credit card companies I know don't charge you if you pay the full amount due at the end of the cycle. If you turn it into a loan on the other hand, then the interest rate is going to be painful.
When does this expire ( not the 60 days thing but the whole trial thing)