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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.
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?
Hetzner Cloud looks modern and it's easy to use. They don't have the same services as DO though.
If you go the dedicated server way, you'll use the old control panel. I don't find it hard to use, but it's not as good looking.
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...
So, just to be clear, this is a 20% increase on the lowest tier, and a smaller increase on the more expensive options. I can't see how this change doesn't push their small (hobby) users away entirely. It sounds crazy, but this may actually push my personal usage into "AWS might be cheaper" territory.
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…
Standard marketing 101. Can't fault them for doing what every other company on the face of the earth does.
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.
Hah, for 230 euro I run 160GB RAM, 2x512Gb + 2x3.8TB NVMe, AMD Epyc 32 cores CPU on Hetzner. Not saying you should do the same, just was a bit shocked and decided to share.
DO's or AWS's managed databases do more than just stick it on an server VM. It has a firewall built it, replicas, backups, logs, API access to manage it, etc.
The reason why these managed database services even exist is because people are willing to pay for it. It provides them value. If it didn't, they'd stop working on them.
I've been using Linode instead of DigitalOcean since ~2015 IIRC. I just checked their pricing page [1] and find it pretty hostile and confusing. First, you won't see any tech spec at all without clicking on a card; "starts at $blah/mo" means precious little without tech specs. Then, once you click on "Droplets" you get another grid(s) of cards where the tech specs are teeny-tiny and comparison is very painful. Compar…
So, just to be clear, this is a 20% increase on the lowest tier, and a smaller increase on the more expensive options. I can't see how this change doesn't push their small (hobby) users away entirely. It sounds crazy, but this may actually push my personal usage into "AWS might be cheaper" territory.
Why not move hobby projects and droplets to the $4 tier when it launches? It’s cheaper and likely enough to do what you want
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.