Sheng quietly open operation, cancel invitation code restrictions

After 8 months of public testing, Sheng (grandcloud.cn) recently opened the operation quietly, cancellation of the original invitation code restrictions. In addition, the Sheng host product billing model has been adjusted accordingly. But the change has also sparked resentment among some of the smaller clients.

Sheng Official bulletin shows that from the beginning of last week, the Grand Cloud mainframe, cloud hard drives and other products to cancel the invitation code restrictions, the entire grand cloud platform for the full opening of the user. At the end of last July, the platform was formally opened for testing.

At the same time, Sheng also to the several products of its billing methods have been adjusted. For example, the cloud host product from the original according to the flow meter fee mode to bandwidth billing mode, while the cloud hard disk IO billing cancellation, only to retain chargeback mode. The Cloud host product billing model changes, triggering some of the royal cloud users dissatisfaction.

Sheng Official Forum Recently updated the speech, is mostly users of cloud host complaints.

A grand cloud users calculated before and after the change in the billing method: The original billing method, a small host package annual price is 1788 Yuan, monthly and 30G free flow. To adjust the billing method, a small mainframe package is 1788 yuan a year, but also need to purchase 2376 yuan of bandwidth package (5M), the total cost increased significantly.

Some insiders pointed out that the bandwidth billing model for the need for high bandwidth, the emphasis on stability of the users more advantages, and for ordinary small and medium Web sites by flowmeter fees are more applicable.

In fact the grand cloud aspect also notes the complaints of this part of the user. Sheng insiders on Sina technology revealed that the impact of the accounting method is relatively large micro-type customers, usually each month's traffic is below 30G, accounting for Sheng current total user size of about 10%. Sheng has also introduced some mitigation measures.

For example, provide 15 days of 5M broadband free use time for old users. Thereafter, the customer will be given the 2M bandwidth of the same number of days from the Sheng registration date to March 13. The maximum free period is 180 days.

Clearly these are not satisfying for all users, and there is no sign of compromise in Sheng. In a sense, Sheng also want to use in the accounting mode and other related adjustments, further carding the overall business development direction. It is revealed that Sheng will later introduce more related services to users.

At present, Sheng has launched Cloud host, Cloud hard disk, cloud distribution, cloud storage, cloud monitoring and other products, and then will be online Web site cloud, database cloud and other products.