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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 kitsune_cw »

anderspitman wrote: post #45

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?

Hetzner gives a generous 20TB egress for each VPS of any size. They also have dedicated servers which give you a gigabit link with unlimited traffic.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by nakedgremlin »

leros wrote: post #17
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 :)

Sorry for the tangent, but can you provide more info on your service? Without signing up from an account on your site, I'm unsure on how the interface here compares to GitLab runner registration (which I always felt was a bit convoluted due to how GitLab structures their user and organization accounts) and how the hardware compares to what GitLab offers.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by jedimastert »

dskrepps wrote: post #57

Is it important that they're losing the branding of the $5 droplet? It seems that's significantly more of an impressionable number than 4 or 6, in my understanding of the factors that made them popular. To me they've simply lost the #1 thing that people remember them by and don't stand out with that simple change. That's the only change that worries me.

I think the $5 thing was a direct answer to Linode's offerings?

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by hartator »

cheschire wrote: post #49
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.

> offsetting part of the projected cost of the $4 tier as well

Usually - well before inflation - this tier was $2.50.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by dawnerd »

Personally I think once you’re in the 70usd range a month you should just look into some unmanaged servers from ovh or similar. You’ll end up with way more for your money. I do realize there’s benefits to sticking with services like DO and that’s something to weigh as well.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by brink »

throwaway_98554 wrote: post #52
showerst wrote: post #32

I think this price increase is honestly pretty fair, but I really wish they'd show side by side prices, and offer me a tool to see what my total increase will be.

Why do you think the price increase is fair? If anything I would expect it to go down as computation and memory get cheaper.

They're not getting cheaper

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by zatarc »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #53

To give some hobbyist level price increase numbers: I'm currently running two basic droplets at 8gb RAM and 4vCPU, which is basically just enough resources for a proper dev kubernetes cluster with Promethueus, Loki, 5-6 apps, etc (4gb 4vCPU is not enough, I tried). I also run a third 1gb1vcpu management droplet outside the cluster as well as a load balancer in front of my API gateway and a spaces instance to dump bac…

So you're spending $102 a month for some hobby things?

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by sesteel »

anderspitman wrote: post #45

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?

I am looking for somebody who has used a Contabo VPS. They advertise their smallest at:

  $6.99 / month
  Starts with 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 32 TB Egress, Unlimited Ingress, and 50 GB NVMe.
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