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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 ricochet11 »

silisili wrote: post #159
skippyboxedhero wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

probably because one of their datacenters burnt down last year, youd like to think they are being extra cautious now.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by 12ian34 »

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.

Digital Ocean are entitled to do whatever they want with their prices, regardless of their costs. Frustrated customers have some good alternatives to switch to.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by ricochet11 »

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?

at least for me in uk the cost of power has almost doubled the beginning of this year, and is expected to rise another 50% in october (the gov limits how much they can jump every 6 months).

so i kind of agree with the other poster, power has got so expensive i would expect prices to be going up. (add onto this manufacturing and supply chain issues and replacing hardware isnt cheap either).

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by nichochar »

I've been using them for 6 years with their 5$/month droplet.

I am going to be upgraded to 6$ month droplet and forced into 5GB extra SSD space which I don't want or need.

Honestly this doesn't make sense, the price of hardware + their economies of scale should bring prices down if anything, they nowhere explained what's going on, am I paying for the CEO's bonus?

I'll probably switch off, it's a shame I liked how developer first they were.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by [deleted] »

nayuki wrote: post #168

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…

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Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by CrLf »

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.

Electricity costs are going up, and hardware is harder to source due to the chip shortage (and thus likely more expensive, if you pay to get ahead of the line). Perhaps these are part of the reasons.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by rmbyrro »

nayuki wrote: post #168

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…

Isn't that normal? They're not being dishonest, I think?

In a job interview, we scream our strengths and downplay the rest as well.

Not saying it's right or "ok", but normal. Expectable as well...

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