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DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by jchw »

Interesting. While it doesn’t seem that unreasonable, this change would really add up if you already had a lot of droplets, and I kind of did. I suppose it’s good luck that I’ve been migrating workloads to Fly lately. Maybe I should finish the job.

To be fair, once you pass the Fly free tier, I can only guess it is more expensive, but in my case it’s made up for by being able to do much smaller VMs. Digital Ocean’s a bit more limited on how you can cut up memory and disk space (and the dynamics of k3s or kubernetes at this scale is awkward.)

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by nop_slide »

fideloper wrote: post #7
samwillis wrote: post #5

From a very quick look I think the cheaper basic droplets have gone up 20%, but larger ones (such as the "general purpose droplets") have only gone up as little as 5%. Edit: Yes, it's only "Basic" droplets that have gone up 20%, everything else is only 5%.

I mean, $5 -> $6/mo is technically a 20% increase, but it's only because it's such a small amount to begin with. I haven't checked their pricing in a while but I think the $5/mo droplet used to be 512m but is now 1G ram, right? It sounds like there's also a $4/mo smaller droplet with 512m ram.

The $5 was 1G ram previously. I don't think there was a 512 option

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by [deleted] »

jchw wrote: post #11

Interesting. While it doesn’t seem that unreasonable, this change would really add up if you already had a lot of droplets, and I kind of did. I suppose it’s good luck that I’ve been migrating workloads to Fly lately. Maybe I should finish the job. To be fair, once you pass the Fly free tier, I can only guess it is more expensive, but in my case it’s made up for by being able to do much smaller VMs. Digital Ocean’s a…

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Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by aosaigh »

Interesting (or maybe not?) that the App Platform and Spaces pricing hasn't changed. I've been migrating as many projects as possible over to App Platform + Managed DB + Spaces recently. Although it's been frustrating due to their documentation being lacking, I've found it great for simple projects and static websites once you get your head around it. It's certainly more expensive than running plain Droplets, but the convenience is worth it. Their costs must be better covered on the App Platform over Droplets.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by mobilio »

jjice wrote: post #9

The battle between cheaper hardware and inflation was something I found interesting and wondered which would affect prices first. I personally won't change anything, I'll pay the extra $1 a month for my cheap droplet to not have to move anything. DO's big selling point to me (as a hobbyist) was the simplicity. Now that I work with AWS every day, I feel very comfortable getting some basic infra set up, but I still rea…

The real question is - how your hourly rate that will justify increasing with $1 per month?

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by leros »

jchw wrote: post #11

Interesting. While it doesn’t seem that unreasonable, this change would really add up if you already had a lot of droplets, and I kind of did. I suppose it’s good luck that I’ve been migrating workloads to Fly lately. Maybe I should finish the job. To be fair, once you pass the Fly free tier, I can only guess it is more expensive, but in my case it’s made up for by being able to do much smaller VMs. Digital Ocean’s a…

I operate a service called RunBuildRun that sells managed GitLab runners that run on DigitalOcean droplets. I have lots of droplets. I may need to bump up my price a bit :)

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by jmartrican »

Seems like the $4 droplet is a smoke screen hiding price increases. I'm a long time DO customer. I wish they would have just said "prices are going up" and listed a comparison of the old price with the new increased price. In their new price list, they do not list the old price... so you cant tell if they are going up and down. Because the article starts off with the $4 droplet announcement, you get a feeling that they have made changes to their infrastructure and prices will be going down to pass along those savings.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by hotpotamus »

tpaksoy wrote: post #4

Why aren't they showing a comparison between old and new price? This seems deliberate...

> That’s why today we are announcing that for the first time we’re changing our prices to best serve you at every stage of your growth journey.

To best serve you at every stage of your growth journey it would seem. Or if you'd like a translation from stilted corporate speak into plain language: we went public and the line's gotta go up and engineers and hardware don't come cheap.

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