Quadruple the price, half of customers leave, you’re still ahead.

I chuckled at the part at the end, that basically says “some people voiced concerns over switching to an open source solution because of support and SLAs”. It’s like, “yoooo, you just got fucked, in a concerted effort by a large company to shed customers that ‘don’t matter’ to them. What makes you think an open source could be worse than this?”

Companies could switch to full Linux computing and use KVM/QEmu.

Problem solved

I know when they jacked the price up on my buddy’s company they went to self hosting or AWS where applicable.

Try proxmox. L