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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.
Everyone who reads this headline. Thinks their $5 Droplet is now $4. [Continues reading...] Realizes their $5 Droplet is now $6 (!).
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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.
Wish I could get the same experience, we have frequent issues with INSERTs to small tables randomly taking 5-15 seconds and SELECTs from small tables going on infinitely. Their built in stats reflect this as well, so it doesn't appear networking or application related. I'm just frustrated and ready to self-manage my own clusters again. The first reply took around a day to begin with.
Have you tried spinning up your own Postgres instance to see if the same thing happens? It might help to be able to show them that you’re able to resolve it when you don’t use their DB.
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Is it getting cheaper? Pretty sure the chip situation is driving up prices.
People forget those rack servers still need a CPU to run everything and controllers for all the drives.
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Why do you think the price increase is fair? If anything I would expect it to go down as computation and memory get cheaper.
Yes, the price of computation is going down, but the prices for real estate and electricity are going up, often way up. Computers use lots of electricity and sometimes the price of electricity over the lifetime is more than the cost of the machine. Gasoline prices don't track electricity prices in the short term, but eventually the prices of energy catch up with each other. They can't escape inflation.
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Because Digital Ocean is a company with employees and investors, not just an automated conglomeration of servers. A 20% increase in prices after 12 years of basically stable prices seems fair.
but aws ec2 price always go down
> New DigitalOcean Pricing / customers using Droplets, Snapshots, Load Balancers, Floating IPs, and Custom Images will experience a change in prices
They are dancing around the matter without using the word "increase". If instead the news was a price decrease, they would be screaming "decrease" loudly everywhere.
> Introducing a new $4 Droplet
A smokescreen, a distraction from the fact that most of their existing services are going up in price. Combining good news with bad news to smooth over the bad news.
> For 10 years, DigitalOcean has expanded and evolved to deliver a better cloud computing experience ... Today, DigitalOcean is proud to serve both teams of developers looking to build their next application ...
Flowerly language that serves to dilute the real news of the price increase.
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…
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