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Webflow got caught with its hand in the cookie jar and wants to settle disputes quietly.

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[–] [email protected] 184 points 2 months ago (2 children)

[The customer] said that Webflow’s sales representatives were uncooperative when asked for more details. He quoted a sales rep saying, “No because you’ll tweet about it.”

Wow, that says a lot about how Webflow views its own policies.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He quoted a sales rep saying, “No because you’ll tweet about it.”

'Well, if you thought I was going to tweet about your shitty policies, what makes you think I won't tweet about your shitty customer service behavior?'

What stupid fucking reasoning...

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago

"Look, man. We just suck all around, okay?"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Sounds like the sales guy was also pissed off about their policies lol. No way they'd give an answer like that if they weren't 😂

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I pay $60 A YEAR for my VPS that has 2TB of bandwidth a month.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

RackNerd still has a new year deal for a 2GB VPS with 2.5TB of monthly bandwidth for $17.38/year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've found this.

https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/

It does seem suspicious, though.

founded by industry experts

RackNerd provides up to 100 free IPv6 addresses upon request.

Pick one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Makes me wonder if those are real VPSes, or if they're Virtuozzo/OpenVZ containers pretending to be a VPS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I had a VPS with racknerd for a year. I just used it as a wireguard endpoint to exit in the US. I had no complaints but I also didn't use it very often.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m not refuting that the price is ridiculous, but shat you have there is just one VPS with single point of presence and single point of failure. Hopefully (seeing the provider wants to charge absurd amount of money for 2TB) there’s a much more robust infrastructure distributed globally for better performance and uptime than a single VPS.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So for that price I spin up 20 instances with failover, load balancing, and use an external DNS provider. Even with the price differentials between different vps providers, it still doesn't math. They're treating their customers like pork barrels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They also have support included.

Their primary customers are businesses, so pork barrels is right. If you're just running a blog, a VPS or even shared hosting is a far better choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ahhh the part I completely overlook, Support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hetzner 5 buckaroos a month 22TB a month

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

a price from 2020 (±3 years ?) ... "Amazon Web Services (AWS): $0.09 per GB (first 10 TB)" so, hummm, that is about $90/TeraBytes transfer ... so about $180/ 2 TeraBytes transfered ...
(unless there is a confusion between the monthly counter and the bandwidth that is measured in Giga bits per second)

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

And AWS is ridiculously expensive compared to a lot of the other options.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What is Webflow? It sounds expensive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Visual designer for websites. There are many others like it. I used webflow for multiple projects and really enjoyed it. Haven't touched it for a couple years though. Once I ran out of commercial projects to use it for, I couldn't afford to keep it for personal use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah. Yesterday i came across a webpage using Adobe Experience Manager. Never heard of it.

Btw, w3techs.com/sites is pretty nice!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

"If no one notices we can charge what we want"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

11 hours of 500mbps bandwidth usage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's like half a Call of Duty these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Complete nonsense.