Your server for free this summer!
By Ryan on Thursday 25 June 2009, 17:23 - Hosting - Permalink
Summer has come and this has put us in the mood to make you happy...
So in this summer spirit, here are some things that we have come up with to please you:
- Have you not yet tried our cloud hosting service? If not to help you make your change, we are going to give you a free server this summer! Yes, from now until August 31st (and by request from this form) you can have a totally free server (equal to one free share). And like any Gandi hosting share, you can expand the power/performance instantly with no downtime by adding additional shares at your convenience
- Are you already a Gandi Hosting customer? If you feel like it is terribly unfair that you cannot benefit from this promo and are already getting ready to write a nasty comment in reply to this article: there is no need, since the price of fixed annual shares has been lowered from €10 excl. VAT per month to €8.34 excl VAT per month, in other words, €100 euros for a year, instead of €120. This is the equivalent of 2 free months! This promotion will also only last until August 31st.
But wait, there's more!
To go with your brand new super Gandi server, we will be lowering rates of our SSL Standard and Professional Certificates across the board to equal E rates, giving you absolutely exceptional rates on our certificates! (NOTE: this promo does not apply to "Business SSL" products). These rates last until August 31st!
So, just a few good reasons to remember us during your vacation
We're counting on you!
Comments
It would be helpful if one could simply extend monthly payments to a year and thus convert existing and presumably live shares to annual shares.
The way I understand it at the moment is that special, annual shares must first be purchased in addition to current shares, current servers then migrated to new annual shares and old shares deleted.
I may have misunderstood this procedure, but it's frankly what has stopped me from impulsively paying a year in advance. Well, that laziness and the wildly fluctuating exchange rates that could eat up a two month saving over the course of a year.
If you had put in a simple conversion option for annual shares under the monthly renew procedure, mentioning the savings, it would certainly have sold me the annual shares when they first became an option.
Hi mc,
Good point, I can see how this is confusing, but it does actually work without any hiccups! If you buy a new annual share, this adds to your 'share quota', e.g. increases from 1 to 2 for example. If you then cancel your monthly server, this then reduces your quota back from 2 to 1.
At any time your live server will check how many shares its using against your quota and provided it has enough it will run perfectly normally. So if you have a 1 share server, then it will continue to run at all times during this change. You will have simply moved from having a 1 share quota based on a monthly plan, to a 1 share quota based on an annual plan. And we'll stop billing you for the monthly share as soon as you cancel it.
But I can see how this is not immediately obvious and I'll pass on the comments. I hope that helps,
Joe
A related question:
How does one transfer a server from one Gandi account to another, with no interruption in service? I don't see any option for a change in ownership.
Hi Anonymous,
There's no way to do this via the interface, but we can do it as a support request. So if you submit a ticket from the account that currently owns the server and tell us which user you want it transferred to then we can take care of it for you. I hope that helps,
Joe
After the outage this week that should not have happened had your hosting infrastructure in fact been set up as you claim on the site (e.g. redundancy, etc), this offer is empty for me. I could care less about a €2/month reduction. I want reliability.