HN, the place where almost everyone makes at least 120k TC, with many of you hitting 300k. Yet a 1$ increase after 12 years is unreasonable ?
>1$ increase after 12 years
Adjusted for inflation, it should be $6.63.
DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
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Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
#332I find it particularly amusing that they're reintroducing the 512MB of memory tier, but at $4 instead of the $2.50 it was before the removal. But I suppose that's roughly inline with the basic 1GB/RAM droplet going to $6. I'm most interested to see how the managed Kubernetes offering changes shake out -- hoping I don't sense a migration in the near future.
> I find it particularly amusing that they're reintroducing the 512MB of memory tier, but at $4 instead of the $2.50 it was before the removal. For perspective, Hetzner Cloud's CX11 nodes pack 2GB RAM and go for €4.15/month. https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
And for €4.75 you get 2 CPUs? Dang. I haven't used Hetzner in a long time, I might have to check them out again.
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does AWS do this ? Unless your using DO at a very large scale the pricing difference isn't significant. I personally use AWS now since my skills with AWS are useful at work as well. That's the biggest perk of AWS to me. At the same time I've always found AWS to have convoluted confusing billing, at least DO is straight forward even if it's gone up a buck or so.
I don't think AWS has ever raised prices. Generally for a given service, prices are fixed and they'll either release a new version or a new machine generation with new pricing (and the old version usually has a very generous deprecation window). AWS pricing can be confusing but they also offer significantly more services. I think it'd be more straight forward if they had the same number of products as Digital Ocean.…
Then use AWS. As a sibling comment points out the price increase is less than inflation
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#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
What hosting service you use?
https://servercheap.net/ The prices listed are slightly higher but every time you visit a 15% discount code will pop-up. So far, so good. The server is in Chicago and I get 1 GBps (symmetric).
Nice, thanks! Looks great, I like the unlimited network :p
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That’s why today we are announcing that for the first time we’re changing our prices to best serve you at every stage of your growth journey. To best serve you at every stage of your growth journey it would seem. Or if you'd like a translation from stilted corporate speak into plain language: we went public and the line's gotta go up and engineers and hardware don't come cheap.
It more and more feels like going public is the big mistake in a lot of tech companies, because everything gets real squirrely after that for customers and employees.
the thing is once you start private and giving options as comp, your only option is to go public eventually, or screw everyone that's every gotten options.
Profitable private companies that never want to go public can solve this by doing profit sharing with employees, but in tech there's often no profits for a very long time.
Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
#336Not too happy about this, thought it was just them adding a new tier droplet but then reading further they've increased there gold standard $5 droplet to $6. Guess I'm going to move to some other VPS because of this. Vultr is looking like a good candidate as they have a Dallas DC (I'm in TX) and for there $5 dollar VPS you get 2TB transfer, plus they have cheaper VPS's under $5. (I just do home lab stuff so the best bang for my buck is what I'm aiming for.)
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#337I've been using them for 6 years with their 5$/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 dev…
Your complaint is over $12 a year? Come on... they've provided you a reliable service for 6 years and now you have to pay $1 more a month and that is enough to drive you away?
My complaint is 20% increase with no added value. Why do you look at the absolute cost rather than the relative?
Competition looks better (like fly.io). I think the company is stale and greedy, otherwise prices wouldn't be going up.
Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
#338I've been using them for 6 years with their 5$/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 dev…
How much did energy prices rise in 5 years? Their employees salaries? I think it‘s fair and still cheap.
Why the hell would I pay for their employee salaries if the service hasn't changed? They likely hired people to pay for features I don't use, and gave executive bonuses.
As I said, I'm happy for them to make more money, but if I'm getting out of it why should I be the one paying?
This is really weird thinking that you guys have.
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#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your complaint is over $12 a year? Come on... they've provided you a reliable service for 6 years and now you have to pay $1 more a month and that is enough to drive you away?
My complaint is 20% increase with no added value. Why do you look at the absolute cost rather than the relative? Competition looks better (like fly.io). I think the company is stale and greedy, otherwise prices wouldn't be going up.
Because what matters is that you've gotten a good service for the last 6 years at a very competitive price. A 20% increase, one time in 6 years is still extremely good. They don't need to add value, they need to stay in operation while navigating the ocean of rising costs.
Let's see if their competitors can match that... oh wait, they haven't been around that long.
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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.
Dang, what are you doing with all that power?
Processing web requests & some reports, pretty much the same as everyone do nowdays. Dev team add some features, but still on scale it the same - web requests and reports.
CPU is pretty much idling, like ~ 10-15% used on average, in spikes may be 20%. But that's minimal CPU hoster gives with RAM 128GB+ platform, so using it.
RAM (~ 110GB) obviously used for DB and the for auxilary tasks. DB itself is medium sized, with raw data ~ 1.5TB yet DISK IO on average is pretty high, around 55%, with often spikes to 100%, that part I'd add more IOPS on if response times grow above the limits.