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0 pointsVespasian4y ago0 comments

Their FAQ mention that prices will be in Euros.

Scroll down on that page. Specs should be there. Or do you mean something different?

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I just mean prices. It's difficult but not impossible for them to do a currency conversion in-browser... just one of those things that helps convert customers, funny that they don't do it.

Here is why me having to do the conversion is annoying.

Pricing at 1 euro = 1.1579126540169 usd:

- Traffic: 20TB included, over that is $1.1579126540169 TB/month

- Instances: $0.0081053885781183 /hr, $0.0127370391941859 hr, $0.023158253080338 hr, $0.0440006808526422 /hr, $0.092633012321352 /hr

- Backups: 20% of instance price (so for first instance, $0.00162107771 ? )

- Volumes: $0.046316506160676 GB/month

- Snapshots: $0.011579126540169 GB/month

I'm willing to bet my currency conversion rate and math precision are incorrect (we all know precision is hard) and customers might get pissed if they think they're getting overcharged when they do the math incorrect on their side. A pricing calculator would help.

tssva4y ago

Currency rates are constantly changing. If they list a converted USD price when you visit the site this may be different than the rate when you are billed. If they don't want to establish fixed USD rates than providing a point in time currency conversion is likely to cause more problems than additional customers this converts.

This appears to be a product aimed mostly at European customers that want a US presence and not to US customers.

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