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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 mettamage »

apocalyptic0n3 wrote: post #35
jmartrican wrote: post #19

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…

Yeah, I read the email they sent me and it overall felt pretty deceptive. I would have expected better from Digital Ocean given my past experiences.

Quite frankly, I feel this only happens when we're in a time of wealth and growth. I suspect many more companies will start acting this way. It's simply a logical conclusion based on the current market sentiment and the view that I outlined above.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by nik736 »

asah wrote: post #29

it's crazy to me that computers get faster+cheaper but hosting goes up in price.

This is not true at all. Electricity prices are crazy and hardware is a lot more expensive for us (not affiliated with DO, I run a PaaS service) than it was 2 years ago.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by showerst »

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.

I don't just pay DO for servers, I'm paying them for a cohesive integrated UX, decent support (for the price), and nice hosted database and load balancer options. That's always been what separates DO from the rest of the market. Servers are cheaper elsewhere, that extra stuff is all pretty competitively priced.

All of those things are subject to the prices of people, which are nuts right now.

I also have deployments at hetzner and OVH and the management angle is day and night (although Hetzner is almost there now). Multiple different logins and dashboards by product, country, etc.

I'm sure some of it is just driven by being public as well. I'll keep paying them if they can keep those other factors great, but little things like wasting my time on the pricing table above are damaging the one thing that I really like about DO.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by alexpotato »

mobilio wrote: post #16
jjice wrote: post #9

The battle between cheaper hardware and inflation was something I found interesting and wondered which would affect prices first. I personally won't change anything, I'll pay the extra $1 a month for my cheap droplet to not have to move anything. DO's big selling point to me (as a hobbyist) was the simplicity. Now that I work with AWS every day, I feel very comfortable getting some basic infra set up, but I still rea…

The real question is - how your hourly rate that will justify increasing with $1 per month?

$1000 bill invoiced:

- Hitting the machine with the hammer: $5

- Knowing where to hit the machine to get it working again: $995

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by prepend »

heliodor wrote: post #128
erikrothoff wrote: post #93

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.

Inflation is quite high.

Not for cloud services. Cloud prices have been deflationary for decades. And this makes sense as software has a near zero marginal cost and efficiencies in hardware and data center management are occurring faster than “normal” inflation.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by kossTKR »

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.

Wow, that's about 1/5 of the price of my current DO test droplet. Think i am going to switch soon if there isn't a catch - i wonder why there is such a huge gap in prices?

I wonder if you can go even lower as i've never heard of multiple companies mentioned in this thread, Hetzner being the other one that's about double this but half DO.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by sitkack »

Prices should be going down, not up. Infact, I would expect out of my cloud provider a commitment to drop prices by some percentage each year. A $100 workload from last year should not cost more than a $100 this year. We are still on exponential curves for compute, storage and DC bandwidth.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by ibejoeb »

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.

Is it getting cheaper? Pretty sure the chip situation is driving up prices.
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