Has anybody used Mag+ to Publish your mag?

Hello,
We have been publishing a magazine for the past 3 months and it's starting to pick up a bit of steam. My boss has looked into using Mag+ and actually talked to a rep from them today.
I'm wondering if anybody has dealt with them or has heard anything - positive or negative about using them? Are there any drawbacks design wise?
Our main goal is to save some $$ basically. I know that they basically charge you per how much space the product would take up (and you start with 250 GB). We would be using our own server for this, and they said we wouldn't be charged as far as that is concerned then. SO all we would be paying for is the initial cost for them to "host" it I guess is about $600/mo. ($400 initial version and then +$200 for an unlimited number of alternate devices.)
It sounds pretty decent after listening in on the conversation they had, but I know that like anything, it is never as easy or as good as it seems.
ANY help or insight into this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Please don't make the mistake of thinking of cost per download as a network expense that you can save by hosting your own files. The download fee is simply the method chosen to account for use. When we set out to build the pricing model for DPS we chose to account for a useage basis rather than trying to build out lots of monthly tiered pricing models. The method used to set the variable pricing in place was downloads. Those of you familiar with Site Catalyst know that that product is charged on an API call basis. Same model.
The pricing model that resonated with the majority of customers is one where they paid a monthly subscription charge and then variable pricing based on their use of services such as distribution, notifications, analytics, folio producer, social sharing, web viewer and others with an option to pay down the download charge based on volume purchases.
While you may be able to purchase a "cheaper" solution by using a competitors product just make sure you're actually accounting for all the costs. You don't host and deliver files for free, you don't get analytic data for free,  you don't get collaboration and other things for free. Any functionality not provided by the vendor is either built out by the publisher (you do pay to deliver content and staff to manage the hosting, you do pay for analytics either by giving others access to your data or by time and money used to generate reports and instrument code, you do pay one way or the other for notification services).
We realize competition exists and we welcome it as we think that DPS stands up to any competitors product offering, particularly when you look at the depth and breadth of what we provide as a complete end to end solution.

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