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The only reason I'm entertaining Hostinger is because I'm Canadian and want to support a Canadian company if it's a reasonably priced alternative.
For the fellow European (edit: & US) HN crowd I can highly recommend Hetzner's Cloud offerings: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
Interesting. Looks like more than half price. Are their interface / setup as easy as DO droplets? What's the catch? Are DO just expensive because they are market leaders?
No managed databases or kubernetes clusters though. Hoping that’s in the works as it will really level up their offering if they do.
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How does this compare with prices for AWS/Google Compute Engine/Azure ?
I've priced up DO as an alternative to AWS on several projects and it has never been cheaper once AWS discounts (reservations, spot) are applied correctly. You need to consume a relatively large amount of bandwidth before DO becomes cheaper, and even then a third party CDN is likely to be a better solution
If it switches at $10 worth of bandwidth, or even at $20, is that REALLY that much?
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> 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.
Good luck actually buying a Pi right now
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/pine64-and-radxas-new...
https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-m1-with-8gbyte-ram/
PS Shame on you Radxa for naming your module CM3, shame. There will be a flood of RK3588 based devices on the market in the next 6-12 months. A low end PC would replace 10s of these devices.
My point was that a 4 vcpu instance is overpriced and also a very small amount of compute. Most cloud costs are 1/3 to 1 of price of hardware, per month.
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> 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.
Is an old arm CPU really comparable to a Xeon/epyc? And home connections are all asymmetric, you may get a gig down but I've not seen anything outside business class with over 50 up.
My 1G connection sees 250M up and down continuously.
For the fellow European (edit: & US) HN crowd I can highly recommend Hetzner's Cloud offerings: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
Oh I'll definitely try them out, I'm on DO and not very excited about them, those Hetzner prices look great! 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?
Crazy how $1/mo is enough to get people who make $200k/year to spend hours or days to move their stuff to another platform. Ooof.
Just from a PR standpoint, wouldn't they had been better off rolling these changes out over time rather than all at once in a big press release?
For the fellow European (edit: & US) HN crowd I can highly recommend Hetzner's Cloud offerings: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
This eliminated a whole bunch of apps. I real head scratcher.
Render.com works a lot better for me. The disk is symlinked in automatically to ‘/var/data’ and I can add it in with an environmental variable set in the dashboard.
I have no idea why digital ocean cripples its app offerings like this. If anyone works there see this please add disks to docker apps.
Crazy how $1/mo is enough to get people who make $200k/year to spend hours or days to move their stuff to another platform. Ooof.
What percentage of HN users do you imagine makes $200k/year?