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Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by hnarn »

zasdffaa wrote: post #147
sitkack wrote: post #139

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.

Cost of power is going up now. It might not be reasonable to assume price falls this year. Or it might. Dunno.

The comment you replied to says:

> We are still on exponential curves for compute and storage and DC bandwidth.

So what’s the angle here, power makes up so much of the service or the cost of power has increased so much that it warrants doubling the price for managed databases?

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by Satam »

prepend wrote: post #137
heliodor wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But the prices for everything else that the company's owners and employees consume are rising.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by skippyboxedhero »

smileybarry wrote: post #121
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

I recommend it as well, and one added benefit is you're in the same network as their cheap "storage box" servers (AKA SMB/CIFS/WebDAV/SSH storage server), so you can connect the two and get faster block storage compared to combining two clouds.

I have been using Backblaze/Wasabi. If you get their European servers, you can rclone mount on a Hetzner VPS and get very good speeds. If you have a fiber connection/very fast disks at home then maybe it will bottleneck. But for file storage and basic playback (for example, through SMB mount) then it is pretty good.

Tbf though, Hetzner auctions with 6TB*2 of disk at 45EUR are a good alternative. It is really a trade-off between having a server with decent power or having the flexibility of scalable S3 storage.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by impulser_ »

pchm wrote: post #110

So the price increase for the managed database is... 100%? Currently paying $240/mo for 16 GB RAM / 6vCPU / 270 GB Disk. The new price is $480/mo. We have a bunch of these databases at work, so I'm sure we'll be considering other providers now.

The prices only change if you have additional nodes. If you don't, the pricing doesn't change.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by zasdffaa »

hnarn wrote: post #152
zasdffaa wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cost of power is going up now. It might not be reasonable to assume price falls this year. Or it might. Dunno.

The comment you replied to says: > We are still on exponential curves for compute and storage and DC bandwidth. So what’s the angle here, power makes up so much of the service or the cost of power has increased so much that it warrants doubling the price for managed databases?

Badly put. Only that the cost might well not drop. Whether it needs to rise significantly I don't know.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by silisili »

skippyboxedhero wrote: post #141
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

Have used them for a long time (I had their 2EUR VPS for ages, let go of it a few months ago but they honoured the price even when they were charging 4EUR for that spec). Very good customer support. I am a little worried about future prices though with electricity costs in Germany (although they have VPS in the US and Finland). Contabo and Netcup are alternatives. Contabo has options in the UK/US/Singapore but is als…

I also recommend OVH. I run a small api on their cheapest VPS, I think I pay like 4/mo for it.

I get maintenance emails quite often, but I think it's from an abundance of caution. I can't remember it actually ever going down.

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