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Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 16, 2022, 2:02 PM UTC

bayesian_horse wrote: post #38

Russia is quickly becoming a no-fry zone.

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Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by ihuman » Mon, May 16, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

baobob wrote: post #23

20% bump for the most budget-sensitive option is a crazy increase. Sure it's fine if you only have one, but I'm sure there are many folk who have hundreds

They also introduced a new 10GB (512MB memory) tier that's 20% cheaper than the budget-tier's original $5/month price

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by kossTKR » Mon, May 16, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

Just closed a bunch of droplets. This is a deceptive price increase hidden behind a bunch of annoying PR. I guess it's understandable with everything going on but the market is beginning to get very hostile towards smaller startups with a lot of smaller services.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by Dork1234 » Mon, May 16, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

baobob wrote: post #23

20% bump for the most budget-sensitive option is a crazy increase. Sure it's fine if you only have one, but I'm sure there are many folk who have hundreds

How does this compare with prices for AWS/Google Compute Engine/Azure ?

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by anderspitman » Mon, May 16, 2022, 2:06 PM UTC

The most relevant bit for me is that apparently the minimum price for 1TB of transfer is now $6 instead of $5. That's unfortunate.

Any suggestions on the best VPS providers for bandwidth-intensive applications?

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by tristor » Mon, May 16, 2022, 2:08 PM UTC

I’ve been paying for a cheap dedicated server for ages for some things but never bothered to migrate my DO workloads. With the price increase this means my DO workloads cost nearly as much as the dedicated server, and I know they can be containerized and shifted easily.

Guess I have a reason to migrate now.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by ur-whale » Mon, May 16, 2022, 2:09 PM UTC

Not affiliated with Hetzner so I feel comfortable pointing out that:

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud (scroll down to unbeatable prices).

and it's been that way for a long time.

There's also: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/

... why is this news ?

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by pluc » Mon, May 16, 2022, 2:09 PM UTC

jakub_jo wrote: post #2

For the fellow European (edit: & US) HN crowd I can highly recommend Hetzner's Cloud offerings: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

Did some DD work on upcloud.com as well - if you want fast storage they're the ones.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by cheschire » Mon, May 16, 2022, 2:10 PM UTC

pritambarhate wrote: post #3

Oh! They have increased the prices! I went to the page hoping price reductions. Looks like inflation is changing the dynamics for the hosting business too.

In addition to inflation, they may also be offsetting part of the projected cost of the $4 tier as well.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by electroly » Mon, May 16, 2022, 2:10 PM UTC

Dork1234 wrote: post #44

baobob wrote: post #23

20% bump for the most budget-sensitive option is a crazy increase. Sure it's fine if you only have one, but I'm sure there are many folk who have hundreds

How does this compare with prices for AWS/Google Compute Engine/Azure ?

AWS Lightsail was already slightly cheaper than DO, and now it's even cheaper yet.