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[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah... The only good thing of offering free tier is to fill gaps of unused machines during low usage hours, as they otherwise have the machines unused. Of course it only makes sense if that makes you money, like people testing it that eventually subscribe, having ads on it or similar.