If this is the same dotCloud I used to push to, the real value proposition are the friendliness represented in both the interface and the people behind it offering the most patient customer support a hopeless idiot like myself could wish for.<p>It's hard to promote that stuff, but dotCloud was far and away the most accessible PaaS at the time - and may still be.<p>It's not surprising that they're basing their tiers on it. it also looks like the Sandbox is back!
Stating all of the prices as "per 30 days" has a bad smell to it.<p>Why not state them as monthly if that was the intent?<p>Or why not state it as hourly or annually if the intent is to slice it that way?<p>The only reasons I can think to state it per 30 days is that there is a dark pattern for revenue optimization hidden in there. Don't be different for the sake of being different when it comes to pricing, especially on something where folks are trying to compare your pricing to competitors.<p>I also think the "meh" acronym for memory hours is pretty unfortunate given the negative connotations. "meh" is about the last thing you want people to associate with your service.
If these are improved prices I'd hate to think what the original prices were.<p>With AWS getting so good now I can't see the appeal for anything like this in future - I've got a dedicated PostgreSQL RDS instances which effectively manages themselves (auto backups/updates), for much less than the prices their charging for their MySql instances.
Hm, I didn't realize that dotCloud was acquired after they switched to being Docker, Inc.:<p><a href="http://blog.dotcloud.com/dotcloud-paas-joins-cloudcontrol" rel="nofollow">http://blog.dotcloud.com/dotcloud-paas-joins-cloudcontrol</a>
Hmm.<p>On their front page, all the way down on their page, there is a banner I presume lists prominent clients. Among those listed is Google Compute Engine.<p>Are they saying that Google Compute Engine runs on top of dotCloud? Or the public site that GCE runs on?