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Hetzner is a very good alternative. They now have VPS in Virginia/USA.
We tested their VPS in Virginia/USA - poor networkwork uptime.
Everyone who reads this headline. Thinks their $5 Droplet is now $4. [Continues reading...] Realizes their $5 Droplet is now $6 (!).
For the fellow European (edit: & US) HN crowd I can highly recommend Hetzner's Cloud offerings: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
I'm a bit sad they don't have anything closer to the UK: I'll miss the 4ms ping to my DO VPS.
EDIT: holy shit, I looked into Contabo mentioned below and it's even cheaper! €5 for 4 cores and 8 GB RAM, what's the catch?
For the fellow European (edit: & US) HN crowd I can highly recommend Hetzner's Cloud offerings: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
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…
> 8gb RAM and 4vCPU This is Raspberry Pi 4 territory. Your monthly cost is the price of hardware, per month. If you are on a home 1G connection, your home bandwidth is as good or better than what you are getting on DO. At the end of a year, you would have a 12 node cluster.
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Isn't there terrible bandwidth restrictions for the GCP free tier VMs?
Oracle gives you 10TB of monthly bandwith + a 4 core/24gb ram ARM VM + 1 or 2 (can't remember) 1Core/1GB x86 AMD Epyc core... for free. If you are just looking to get a cloud VM for personal projects, it's by far your best option. 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
Let's see, I host Dokku in a VPS. For 7 USD/month I get: 4 cores, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, uncapped bandwith (at least in theory) The days of DO offering the best prices are long over.
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.