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Hetzner is a very good alternative. They now have VPS in Virginia/USA.
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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.
How much the consumption reduction counteracts the rise in electricity prices, I don't really know.
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You can get a GCP micro VPS for free, “forever”. I have a free VPS always running, and run beefier VPSs as-needed for my personal projects. For my needs, GCP and Colab (sometimes Pro, sometimes free) are convenient and time-savers. You can also get a free Oracle Cloud VPS, and Alibaba provides good cloud value also. Many years ago, I enrolled in Microsoft’s BizSpark program, and if they still do that, check them out.…
Isn't there terrible bandwidth restrictions for the GCP free tier VMs?
It's a bit weird to say considering it's oracle, but there's no catch and no hidden costs. As long as you don't upgrade to a paid account, there's no way to even mess up and get charged
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…
You might want to look into OVH's k8s offering [1]. You only pay the worker nodes and the general purpose instances cost 26,18 € per month offering 2vcpu and 7 gb RAM [2]. [1] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/#568 [2] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/#419
Hetzner is a very good alternative. They now have VPS in Virginia/USA.
Not affiliated with Hetzner so I feel comfortable pointing out that: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud (scroll down to unbeatable prices). and it's been that way for a long time. There's also: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/ ... why is this news ?
half of hetzners ip space is on spam lists, and sometimes out of nowhere they like to ask for your passport and drivers license.
I think DigitalOcean is okay as a company, but I don't like the wording of this news item. > 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…
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.
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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.