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For the fellow European (edit: & US) HN crowd I can highly recommend Hetzner's Cloud offerings: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
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?
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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.
it's crazy to me that computers get faster+cheaper but hosting goes up in price.
For the fellow European (edit: & US) HN crowd I can highly recommend Hetzner's Cloud offerings: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
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.
I’ve never had that experience. Even when asking support for help with ~100/month in databases I got very quick and high quality help. Worth noting is that the issue was on their end, and they had it resolved within half a day or so.
Seems like the $4 droplet is a smoke screen hiding price increases. I'm a long time DO customer. I wish they would have just said "prices are going up" and listed a comparison of the old price with the new increased price. In their new price list, they do not list the old price... so you cant tell if they are going up and down. Because the article starts off with the $4 droplet announcement, you get a feeling that th…
I'm really glad we've started to move to another cloud (OVH). DigitalOcean has been upping their prices consistently for years now. It used to be an affordable, good looking, easy to use cloud. Now it's just good looking and easy to use.
that's a big price increase, almost 15/20% for small/medium droplets
For the fellow European (edit: & US) HN crowd I can highly recommend Hetzner's Cloud offerings: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
I use it for all my projects for 3 years, and very satisfied