George,
I wanted to supplement the topic with a link to another, in which I once gave a very detailed explanation of "why the tariffs are exactly like that." But I can’t find the link, so I’ll try to write here again, but maybe I’ll miss something.
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The cost of cloud tariffs is based on the cost of infrastructure, and not just our Wishlist (although, of course, there is also a share of Wishlist :).
Roughly speaking, the cost of VPS + its maintenance, salary of system administrators, backups, costs of forum support, etc. for one virtual machine cost $50. It turns out that "tariff-3" ($75) fits in there minimally.
The next level of infrastructure in terms of capacity already costs $100, so this is Tariff-5.
We use the Hetzner Cloud, and, unfortunately, there the power of virtual machines is added only by jumps -
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud, plus there are a lot of technical limitations, not all virtual machines are suitable.
For free plans, we use the cheapest CX11 virtual machines, which "suicide after 7 days of inactivity". They are so weak that OneBox can only be seen there.
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In your situation, if you work on your own, then you can buy one boxed license from our distributors
https://crm-onebox.com/en/contacts/ and put it on your server.
Capital costs will be something like $800 one-time (the price is agreed by the distributor, we do not influence it) + $50/year for the update + $10-50/month for the server (depending on which and where you choose).
To be honest, it’s a hemorrhagic option, but at an interval of 3 years it can be more profitable.