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Digital Ocean really needs to cut their prices at this point. There's no compelling reason to pay them 50% more for the same thing.
Rather than cut prices (I think $5 is low enough), I would prefer if they would beef up their specs. For $5, DO gives you only 512MB vs 1GB from Linode.
I love seeing cloud providers offering better deals, the more the merrier! However, I still have yet to find a better deal than the one Scaleway offers. ~$3/mo for a dual-core, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD host. They also support terraform, rancher, swarm, etc. Been using them for a few months and haven't had a single complaint.
I probably wouldn't host a blog there. Their ToS[1] has, among other things: - A prohibition against the propagation of data, images or sounds that may constitute defamation, an insult, denigration, or an infringement of privacy, image rights, good morals, or public order - Users are required to use decent and respectful language - Users are reminded that they must update software without excessive delay when a secur…
Linode is my top choice for hosting, but lately I've been tinkering on a project that needs a lot of disk, and it's hard to find good options there. On AWS every dimension scales independently, but with Linode I can't buy disk without buying CPU and RAM too. When I had a similar need a few years ago, I wound up renting a dedicated server, where even the cheapest came with 2TB or so. I'd love to just stick with Linode…
"In the coming months we’ll be releasing into beta our new Linode Manager, RESTful API, and block storage service." From the blog post you just commented on ;-)
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Rather than cut prices (I think $5 is low enough), I would prefer if they would beef up their specs. For $5, DO gives you only 512MB vs 1GB from Linode.
Well, you get a 10 Gbps pipe with DO, while only 75 Mbps with Linode, lol!
Digital Ocean really needs to cut their prices at this point. There's no compelling reason to pay them 50% more for the same thing.
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Rather than cut prices (I think $5 is low enough), I would prefer if they would beef up their specs. For $5, DO gives you only 512MB vs 1GB from Linode.
Well, you get a 10 Gbps pipe with DO, while only 75 Mbps with Linode, lol!
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Rather than cut prices (I think $5 is low enough), I would prefer if they would beef up their specs. For $5, DO gives you only 512MB vs 1GB from Linode.
Well, you get a 10 Gbps pipe with DO, while only 75 Mbps with Linode, lol!
The blog should be updated now, might need a refresh to see:
https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and...
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Rather than cut prices (I think $5 is low enough), I would prefer if they would beef up their specs. For $5, DO gives you only 512MB vs 1GB from Linode.
6-of-1, half a dozen of the other. Halving their prices on all current instances gives you the same specs at the same pricepoints. I don't particularly care if they keep around a 512MB/$2.50 instance at that point.
I currently use Linode, but if DigitalOcean offered something at that pricepoint they would be getting $2.50 more from me a month than they currently do.
Maybe it's possible to scale with just RAM! Fire up a uWSGI + Flask and up the RAM as traffic increases.
Digital Ocean really needs to cut their prices at this point. There's no compelling reason to pay them 50% more for the same thing.
Why? DIgitalocean tends to be easier to use and more reliable. I'm ok with paying a little more given these factors...