Free versus Static account

[slight]

I've been contemplating upgrading to a paid account.
However, when I compared the free account to the paid account I was instantly confused:

FREE PAID (Static plan)
Number of DBs 3 2
Add on domains 3 0
Email accounts 5 3
Subdomains 3 1

So the FREE sites actually seem to provide more
capacity and value than the paid "Static" plan. Curious.

 

[Zubair]

Paid servers have 99.9 % uptime. speed of paid server is also faster than free servers.

 

[Anna]

There's a lot other differences not listed there.

E-mail limitations: Free has a limit of max 100 e-mail an hour, while paid, if restricted at all, is around 1500 e-mail an hour.
Resource usage: Restrictions differ significantly, where paid has more then the double allowed.
Stability: Paid servers are far more stable and come with a guarantee of an uptime of 99.99%.
Support: Paid has priority support with its own ticket system.

These are the ones that come to mind right now.

 

[Livewire]

There's a lot other differences not listed there.

E-mail limitations: Free has a limit of max 100 e-mail an hour, while paid, if restricted at all, is around 1500 e-mail an hour.
Resource usage: Restrictions differ significantly, where paid has more then the double allowed.
Stability: Paid servers are far more stable and come with a guarantee of an uptime of 99.99%.
Support: Paid has priority support with its own ticket system.

These are the ones that come to mind right now.

Just to clarify, Paid does have an email restriction limit. I seem to remember it being like 2,000 an hour though, but in any case, even at 1,000 it's 10x as much as free.

Oh, and I've -never- had a ticket in for longer than 5-6 hours before it got solved, ignoring the low-priority simple question I had that was so low priority I told Corey on IRC to not bother looking at it until he was bored