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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 SOLAR_FIELDS »

greggsy wrote: post #75
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…

What are your traffic requirements?

Very very low - I used only 30 gb of the massive amount DO gives you last month. Basically currently just have some stuff periodically sending data in and most of the outbound is just small REST responses.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by mark_l_watson »

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 ?

You can get a GCP micro VPS for free, “forever”. I have a free VPS always running, and run beefier VPSs as-needed for my personal projects. For my needs, GCP and Colab (sometimes Pro, sometimes free) are convenient and time-savers.

You can also get a free Oracle Cloud VPS, and Alibaba provides good cloud value also. Many years ago, I enrolled in Microsoft’s BizSpark program, and if they still do that, check them out. So many good options…

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by dhzhzjsbevs »

gmemstr wrote: post #31

I find it particularly amusing that they're reintroducing the 512MB of memory tier, but at $4 instead of the $2.50 it was before the removal. But I suppose that's roughly inline with the basic 1GB/RAM droplet going to $6. I'm most interested to see how the managed Kubernetes offering changes shake out -- hoping I don't sense a migration in the near future.

Those were so brutal to run things on.

Fwiw, that 2.5 was after the price drop. 1vcpu + 512mb + 20gb used to be $5

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by tailspin2019 »

zatarc wrote: post #68
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?

Pretty cheap if you account for the very employable skills either being learned or kept sharp!

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by malfist »

AdamGibbins wrote: post #80
malfist wrote: post #58

That's what I call a misleading title, my droplet is going up 20% with this news. Sad, my hardware hasn't changed in 4 years, why is it suddenly more expensive to host? Hardware costs are always dropping, there's no reason for this other than greed. I guess this is another "inflation" thing where companies demand higher profits without changes in services.

> Hardware costs are always dropping, there's no reason for this other than greed. They're not though, there's a load of world happenings currently resulting in chipset shortages and increased energy pricing etc in many parts of the world.

Maybe, but that doesn't impact existing hardware. So unless this upgrade includes things like newer CPUs or more ram/disk for a droplet that doesn't apply, and as far as I can tell, the hardware I started on 4 years ago is the same. At least they've not advertised any new CPUs or increased disk or ram.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by gamegod »

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%.

It's because the other types of Droplets are overpriced and less competitive to begin with.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by bravetraveler »

sesteel wrote: post #60

Has anybody heard of and formed an opinion on Contabo? I was searching for unmetered or high bandwidth offerings and ran across them. They have a cloud VPS for $7/mo with 4vCPU, 8GB RAM, and 32TB traffic.

I generally have heard good things for personal use. Never signed up personally

I believe they limit disk IO to ~100MB/s unless requested, an annoying step but otherwise I hear they perform well especially considering the pricing

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by greggsy »

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.

Inflation, and chip shortages interrupting their (presumably linear) asset lifecycle costs.

Possibly also gearing up for a sale, and keen to test the elasticity of the market.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by kuschku »

dawnerd wrote: post #66

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.

e.g., I’m using a €53/month Hetzner server which is 8 CPU cores, 64 GB of RAM, 512 GB NVMe SSD, 4 TB HDD, unlimited transfer.

DO offer the same for $416.00/month.

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