Running a small reseller operation on Vultr. Thinking about transparency. My margins are thin because I prioritize memory-safe infrastructure—zero-cost abstractions don't help when your billing stack has use-after-free. Should I tell clients I'm paying €4/month for the OVHcloud box they pay me €12 for? Or is that inviting them to cut me out? I could rewrite it in Rust but that's not the question.
Do you inform clients about your hosting costs?
If you tell them they will leave
How to say... in France actually we have a law about this ? It doesn't go if you hide the costs ! But actually for the hosting I think it is different ? You are the service, not the product ? My friend he tells everything to his clients and it works ? But he is in Marseille so maybe not the same ?
Vive la résistance... électrique
lucgone said:
Should I tell clients I'm paying €4/month for the OVHcloud box they pay me €12 for?
Sorry for the silly question but if I found out my guy was charging me triple what he pays, I'd feel a bit 😬. But also I don't want to manage the server myself. I break things. Is there like a middle ground where you say "I use upstream providers" without naming the $4? Sorry if this is silly.
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