Our hoster (Netlify) announces new and much more expensive pricing model

The hosting service I use, Netlify, announced a new credit-based pricing model which is incredibly expensive. Good news I can stay on the old plan, but it looks like they're putting all of their eggs into this credit-based system basket. Someday I might be forced to get on, but I will more likely switch the hoster.

Kleki's traffic vs the pricing model #

Visiting Kleki is pretty light-weight, it's an HTML page with some images and JavaScript files. If you visit after an update, or you visit Kleki for the first time and don't open a PSD file just 260kB get transferred. A subsequent visit is 1.9kB or even 0kB as the application is cached on your device. With that in mind Kleki has generated 308GB in traffic and 62 million web requests in the last 30 days. The old pricing model covers this comfortably, where I get 1TB of traffic per month and unlimited web requests for $20 per month. Sounds pretty simple.

The new pricing model would cost me $640 for the last 30 days (22055 credits), which is not even when Kleki's usage usually peaks. Here I tried to use their calculator. Looks a bit more complicated, and it cuts off below my number of web requests.

Netlify motivates this pricing as "simpler, credits-based plans so costs scale more predictably as activity grows."

In other words, a 3100% price increase for me.

Again, I'm staying on the old plan. But if I were someone who is looking to sign up for Netlify I only get presented this new expensive pricing model. I definitely wouldn't have chosen this hoster if they had this pricing back then.

-bitbof

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