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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 rchaud »

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.

You're not buying a box from Digital Ocean, you're purchasing a managed service. Staff costs can and do increase independently of hardware costs.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#103

Post by Operyl »

If only their managed databases weren’t causing such annoying issues for me right now. I tried contacting their support, but it was impossible to get past tier 1 and I felt like they just weren’t even reading what I was saying. Their prices are “cheap,” and the support definitely shows it.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#104

Post by encryptluks2 »

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.

Changing the dynamics how when it is already overpriced. This is like all the businesses during COVID saying... It's COVIDs fault our customer service is terrible.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#105

Post by freediver »

pluc wrote: post #48
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.

I preferred them to DO as they had newer (AMD CPU) hardware but then had a very bad experience with them as a customer, causing me to move my business away back to DO.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#106

Post by haswell »

samwillis wrote: post #8
ricketycricket wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pricing page still shows current prices. It appears to be a roughly 20% increase across the board.

No, it's only 20% on the basic droplets (which currently top out at $80/month), it looks like 5% on everything else.

This is unfortunate, and seems to impact hobbyists more than larger production setups if true.

I love DO, but with the pretty basic requirements I have (just a blog and some small apps) I need to start looking at cheaper options.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#107

Post by dan353hehe »

davidbarker wrote: post #28
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…

It’s always nice to hear that someone liked Pagoda Box. I worked there way back in 2011 before the Nanobox change, and it was really fun working with containers, dynamic load balancers, and the `git push` workflow before those were widely known.

Nothing was as magical as having a site up a running a few seconds after doing `git push pagoda`.

Of course I am biased though :)

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#108

Post by skrtskrt »

arccy wrote: post #77
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…

k3s makes running your own control plane relatively painless if you're not too opinionated about some things

Also k3s will run on much smaller instances

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#109

Post by tasuki »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #79
zatarc wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yep - it's also an exercise to keep my cloud engineering skills up to date - I can take the approach I use on the hobby projects and apply it to production level stuff in my job.

If it's an exercise to keep your cloud engineering skills up to date, perhaps you'd like to manage your own Kubernetes? Then I'm sure it can be much cheaper.
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