Cloud Hosting Pricing: Simple and Predictable Is a Winning Formula

The InfoWorld Cloud Computing channel recently published a well-written post by Savio Rodrigues that caught our attention: Beware the bait and switch in the public cloud.

The first part of the post was about Google App Engine and how Google had announced new pricing that was both very confusing and also raised prices from 50% to more than 2,800%. That’s right, a 28 fold increase.

Needless to say it hasn’t gone over well with customers.

But Rodrigues’ point isn’t that people don’t like higher prices. Of course they don’t—no news there.

It’s about how complex and unpredictable pricing are barriers for enterprises as they move into cloud hosting.

And everybody over here at EarthLink Cloud is nodding in agreement.

That’s because a simple, predictable, low-cost pricing structure has been one of our goals for all our cloud hosting services.

We know that some companies have been burned by confusing pricing structures, hidden fees and charges, and unfortunate surprises when they get their cloud hosting bills from other providers. We know because we’ve heard from them.

EarthLink Cloud offers simple pay-as-you grow, flat-rate pricing for our cloud hosting. No hidden fees, no surprises. No bait, no switch.

So it’s easy to budget for and plan for. (And you don’t have to be a CFO to like that.)

When you are trying to manage and grow your business, you have enough to worry about without worrying whether your cloud hosting bill will bust your budget.

You may like your comedians to be wild and unpredictable, but we’re pretty sure that’s not true for billing.

For cloud service billing, we have a deep-seated faith that…you’re looking for boring. And, predictably, we’re ready to offer it to you.

Month after month after month.

If you’re interested, compare the pricing for our cloud server hosting plans.