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DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by kyledrake »

pritambarhate wrote: post #3

Oh! They have increased the prices! I went to the page hoping price reductions. Looks like inflation is changing the dynamics for the hosting business too.

Honestly I think enticing shareholders is one of their primary motivators here, and the inflation is more of the excuse. Nobody else I work with is raising their costs in this space right now (we'll see how long that lasts though), and DO isn't exactly the bottom of the list on pricing.

The increase doesn't look too large, but if you need a similar alternative I like Vultr a lot, the Neocities CDN is hosted there and it's been rock solid performance for years, and it's quick to get access to competent tech support. I wish I had more infra hosted there actually.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by jermaustin1 »

throwaway_98554 wrote: post #52
showerst wrote: post #32

I think this price increase is honestly pretty fair, but I really wish they'd show side by side prices, and offer me a tool to see what my total increase will be.

Why do you think the price increase is fair? If anything I would expect it to go down as computation and memory get cheaper.

Because Digital Ocean is a company with employees and investors, not just an automated conglomeration of servers. A 20% increase in prices after 12 years of basically stable prices seems fair.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by cheschire »

hartator wrote: post #65
cheschire wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In addition to inflation, they may also be offsetting part of the projected cost of the $4 tier as well.

> offsetting part of the projected cost of the $4 tier as well Usually - well before inflation - this tier was $2.50.

I thought the $4 tier was new. Or did they announce intent a while ago at the $2.50 price point?

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by greggsy »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #53

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…

What are your traffic requirements?

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by [deleted] »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #53

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…

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Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by arccy »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #53

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…

k3s makes running your own control plane relatively painless if you're not too opinionated about some things

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by dhzhzjsbevs »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #53

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…

r/homelab

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

zatarc wrote: post #68
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #53

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…

So you're spending $102 a month for some hobby things?

Yep - it's also an exercise to keep my cloud engineering skills up to date - I can take the approach I use on the hobby projects and apply it to production level stuff in my job.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

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Post by AdamGibbins »

malfist wrote: post #58

That's what I call a misleading title, my droplet is going up 20% with this news. Sad, my hardware hasn't changed in 4 years, why is it suddenly more expensive to host? Hardware costs are always dropping, there's no reason for this other than greed. I guess this is another "inflation" thing where companies demand higher profits without changes in services.

> Hardware costs are always dropping, there's no reason for this other than greed.

They're not though, there's a load of world happenings currently resulting in chipset shortages and increased energy pricing etc in many parts of the world.

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