[HCoop-Discuss] On organizing people to get work done

[Daniel Margolis]

What makes it clear that the users paying the minimum are being 
subsidized? Is the monthly cost of 122MB of disk usage and hardly any 
CPU or bandwidth really over $3? On Amazon, that much storage and 
equivalent transfer is $0.09/month. I think I'm subsidizing you.

On 5/7/2009 4:20 PM, David Snider wrote:
> This is the problem I've always had with this 'share' type scheme. The
> users paying the rock bottom price tend to get pissed when the true cost of
> the services are no longer subsidized.
>
> On Thu, 7 May 2009 16:01:11 -0700, Lauren McNees<lauren at hcoop.net>  wrote:
>> Thank you for expressing this opinion; I was feeling the same way.
>>
>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:53 PM, John T. Settino
>> <john at johnsettino.com>wrote:
>>
>>>   I personally can't say that I would feel it fair to have my dues
>> doubled
>>> and not receive any noticeable upfront benefit.
>>>
>>> For example, my only gripe with hcoop is that email is often slow and
>>> boggy. Will doubling my monthly payment magically make email get better?
>> I
>>> doubt it.
>>>
>>> I can't necessarily say I'm thrilled with Adam's apparent "I'm okay with
>>> dues being raised so who cares if someone else isn't, they can leave if
>> they
>>> don't like it" attitude about the situation, either.
>>>
>>> I've been paying $5 a month or under for over 5 years and I don't feel
>> like
>>> having to move all of my accumulated email / files and setup everything
>>> somewhere else. I run my own webhosting company and could just as easily
>>> keep my email there, but I choose to keep it at HCOOP. So will I up and
>>> leave if dues get doubled? Probably not; I don't like change and like
>> the
>>> way my HCOOP email it setup; but will I be pretty pissed off about not
>>> having a choice? Yes.
>>>
>>> --
>>> *John T. Settino*
>>> Web Developer / Technologist for Hire
>>> http://www.johnsettino.com/
>>>
>>> * Please consider the environment before printing this email. :DGC
>>>
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