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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 lb4r »

nop_slide wrote: post #12
fideloper wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

They used to have a 512M droplet for $5. After a few years they upped it to 1G, and you could upgrade for free.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by Xorlev »

mfer wrote: post #10
tpaksoy wrote: post #4

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

How many places show a difference in their prices? How often to restaurants, stores, and other as a service companies doing that? I almost never see it. I wouldn't say they are doing something deliberate (in a negative sense). They are doing something pretty typical.

Restaurants and stores are single transactions, not ongoing subscription services.

DigitalOcean makes you dig for the price increase, which is pretty scummy. They tried to soften the blow with a new droplet which looks even worse. At the end of the day, 20% is a huge change.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by colinbartlett »

mfer wrote: post #10
tpaksoy wrote: post #4

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

How many places show a difference in their prices? How often to restaurants, stores, and other as a service companies doing that? I almost never see it. I wouldn't say they are doing something deliberate (in a negative sense). They are doing something pretty typical.

They have a table of everything listed along with a new price for it. All they would need to add is a column showing the existing price. There is a 100% chance they have a spreadsheet internally passed around with that existing price column.

Do you really believe it was a not a deliberate choice to not show the side by side comparison?

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by selcuka »

nop_slide wrote: post #12
fideloper wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It was 512M before, then they doubled the specs of every droplet a few years ago.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by davidbarker »

aosaigh wrote: post #15

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…

I was a big fan of Nanobox (the company DigitalOcean acquired and then turned into App Platform). And Pagoda Box before that. I've never found any PaaS that was as easy to use as those — especially because it came with a local environment for development that would match the production environment.

I'm very interested to try App Platform for my next side project. In fact, I still have a server running on DigitalOcean that was set up through Nanobox a few years ago. I need to move that over to App Platform at some point.

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