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I am a big fan of Meteor, evangelize it for free and this makes me angry.

1. Many of free sites are demo sites of their packages and tutorials. This would hurt the ecosystem.

2. Two week notice before shutting down is way too short. Should I trust Galaxy given this reputation?

3. Well I see a lot of AdSense ads about Meteor. That's probably terrible way of burning VC money and I don't think devs pick frameworks based on ads. Running tiny utility likely is way more important.

the biggest thing for me is those demo sites for packages. I can do without free meteor deployment, although it was awesome, but all the package.meteor.com sites are incredible when browsing atmosphere

I am a bit disappointed. I understand that this was coming our way, but two weeks notice is very short.

Agreed. Mostly switched useful deployments to Galaxy a few weeks ago. Much more reliable, and not that expensive. I think the difference between $0 and $5/month is fairly small for developer, but big for Meteor. I think you should be able to deploy multiple microsites to one container, instead.

Hi. Do you know if it is possible to predict how much an app will cost per month before putting it online?

You're giving us 14 days? No one, anywhere, gives 14 days to shutdown a service.

No one.

Just shutting the thing seems a bit inconvenient. They could instead have announced they were charging something modest - say first month free then $5 and made some money while allowing the old stuff to work.

Sad to see this go. `meteor deploy' and having your project online was a part of the bewilderment that Meteor gave me when I was first introduced to it.

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