Hey everybody, thanks for all the great feedback so far!
I just wanted to reply to the issues brought up so far.. I'm sorry about the $1.10 charge! We didn't think that'd actually show up on your statement because we only do an auth (not a capture), and then void it right away! Nevertheless, it's been changed to only be $0.01 now!
rsayers, your email bounced back to us because our server name sending the email wasn't fully qualified. we'll get that fixed up and re-send you that email!
We'll also fix up the billing page to correctly reflect the free beta status! Plus allow you to remove your credit card info.
We'll add more documentation/screenshots of the management page/faq-type stuff as soon as possible!
I believe we've fixed up the signup error a few people got now too!
Thanks again for trying it out and please let us know any other questions, comments, or requests you have! And please tell a friend!
Little disconcerting that they plaster 'you will not be billed' all over and then you see a charge on your card from them. It's only $1.10, and obviously just a verification charge, but still a bit frustrating.
Also, the billing screen on their site says:
Your next monthly bill will be charged on June 4, 2009 for $10.00
You will be rebilled using your Visa ending in XXXX
Other info: The out of band they give you is AjaxTerm. DNS control is pretty basic. Aside from that you get reboot and delete functions.
I don't like the credit card info required but if they can offer 512 for 20 bucks a month they will have an up on some companies. Someone will have to report back if they try it.
You folks have a nicely designed site, and it's cool to offer such a nice deal to the beta users.
But.
Even though it's beta/free for now, it would be great if you had a screenshot of your admin panel, and some specs about the system. (Aside from RAM we're not told about the Linux distro, file system size, bandwidth before we hand over our credit card info?!)
Other than that, site looks very nice, and I wish you luck and hope to check your service out.
I saw that. it seemed just a little too sketchy for me.
I'll probably sign up for mosso at some point. I'm just lazy, and running down my dotmac account now (yes you read me. iphone address/mail/ical sync is sublime)
(Just a heads up) Last time I checked, Mosso did not have shell access. As for prgmr, the admin of the service (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc) is a regular, friendly, very forthcoming participant on Hacker News who freely admits their website could use some work :D
I'm not a customer or affiliated with prgmr, but I'm definitely going to check them out.
I'm on prgmr. Been there since December or so, and had no issues with it whatsoever. Ridiculously cheap for what I'm getting, too... $8 for 256 MB is unreal.
Unfortunately, I am skeptical of brand new hosting companies whose only differentiator is that they are cheaper. I always wonder if they are really cheaper or if they are simply cutting more corners than the other guys.
BTW, Mosso is $10.95/month for 256MB not including bandwidth.
I just wanted to reply to the issues brought up so far.. I'm sorry about the $1.10 charge! We didn't think that'd actually show up on your statement because we only do an auth (not a capture), and then void it right away! Nevertheless, it's been changed to only be $0.01 now!
rsayers, your email bounced back to us because our server name sending the email wasn't fully qualified. we'll get that fixed up and re-send you that email!
We'll also fix up the billing page to correctly reflect the free beta status! Plus allow you to remove your credit card info.
We'll add more documentation/screenshots of the management page/faq-type stuff as soon as possible!
I believe we've fixed up the signup error a few people got now too!
Thanks again for trying it out and please let us know any other questions, comments, or requests you have! And please tell a friend!
Thanks, Joe Jones