5 karma · joined November 29, 2013
Gandi allows any service to be run on its platform, abuse is not allowed as it isn't on other provider.
Thus, they must do the necessary legal operations according to the law, policies and their contract.
BUT, our bank does it for us, so you can now auto-credit your prepaid account using probe (no more credit, auto credit every month, ...)
* Being "cloud-ish" and have a pay-as-you-go system * Computing a price to use a 256MB of RAM for 3 hours in real currency was too complicated (like, for example : 0.0000174€) * Having no surprise at the end of the month, as some hosting providers compute the global use and bill the consumption at the end of the month (you may have surprise) * Using credits, to create a new server, adding a new network interface, etc, you do not need to buy 'resources' like it was before * There are two interfaces : historic usage of credits by resources, display the credits consumption as what you use in real currency * No multiple expiration date by product/resource * ...
Many of those advantages are described here : http://wiki.gandi.net/en/iaas/references/billing/credits
As usual, any enhancement/improvement is welcome :-)