Comment by bluGill

4 days ago

This is common in industry. You often do give a discount and guarantees to the first users of a system to compensate for the risk the customer is taking.

This is part of how DigitalOcean got going, Kingston gave a huge discount on a traditional HDD order if the order was switched to SSD instead because they wanted to kickstart scaled manufacturing. First time an SSD was put in and the IOPS was measured, the product direction was clear, at the time we thought it might be a CDN tho, but eventually landed on a "cloud hosting provider".