Mosso Pricing Update – Compute Cycles
A couple of months ago, Mosso the cloud based hosting provider introduced a change to their billing model that had existing users up in arms. The change that caused all the concern was a move to bill users partly on the number of requests that hosted sites incurred. If your sites clocked over 3 million requests in a month, you would be billed at quite a hefty rate for the number of requests over this limit. This site alone would burn 3 million requests easily given the amount of traffic I get: It only amounts to about 70000 unique visits per month.
Well the latest news is that Mosso appear to have been listening to users and revised the strategy yet again, to a metric that will be based on the concept of ‘compute cycles’. Pricing and the amount of cycles you get in your package has not been released yet but obviously users are keen to see if Mosso still provides the value for money that was originally apparent.
The fact is that with new technology models, new pricing models must follow: it remains to be seen if new pricing models build successful sustainable businesses.
Given my current obsession with all things cloud bound – including Live Mesh and my employer 
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