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Pringles@lemm.ee 3 days agoSo I’m trying to wrap my head around why they would do this and how that even worked. They would decommission them on Friday and have them rebuilt on Monday? These didn’t have a specific config then I assume? And they did it because they paid per hour the machine existed so it made sense cost wise?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 days ago
it doesn’t make sense because it was never supposed to.
they wanted out of the contract and didn’t want to pay the fees. The contract was large enough that we couldn’t really take the hit to MRR and wouldn’t let them out without the fees. so, they were dicks about it and threatened the CEO with legal action, which is why we forced them into fulfilling the contract to term. they could have left at any time, had they been willing to pay the fees.
as for the VMs. they were remote consoles used in some financial business. I think they had a VPN from each of their locations that used thin-clients to connect to the VMs somehow. it didn’t matter if their user data was gone since they were all based on a single image that had all the software/configs built-in.
they paid per machine and storage volume. as long as they didn’t go over their contracted amount or under a threshold then they were in compliance with the contract. it was a mutually beneficial contract in the sense that they needed HA high volume VMs with low storage requirements at a fixed price. we offered that to them with volumetric licensing for Microsoft software at a competitive price. think of them like virtual workspaces.