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Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

$2.50 was from comparing to the similar specs from Vultr: https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#92

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…

I'm pretty sure GCP's managed kubernetes service offers 1 control plane as part of the free tier

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#94
post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Maybe, but that doesn't impact existing hardware. So unless this upgrade includes things like newer CPUs or more ram/disk for a droplet that doesn't apply, and as far as I can tell, the hardware I started on 4 years ago is the same. At least they've not advertised any new CPUs or increased disk or ram.

Increased energy prices absolutely impacts current hardware, especially given older hardware tends to be more energy intensive.

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#96

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…

You might want to look into OVH's k8s offering [1]. You only pay the worker nodes and the general purpose instances cost 26,18 € per month offering 2vcpu and 7 gb RAM [2].

[1] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/#568

[2] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/#419

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#97
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20% bump for the most budget-sensitive option is a crazy increase. Sure it's fine if you only have one, but I'm sure there are many folk who have hundreds

They also introduced a new 10GB (512MB memory) tier that's 20% cheaper than the budget-tier's original $5/month price

$100/hour+ human costs to migrate though right. Imagine downsizing 100 web apps, notifying clients of what's going on, and dealing with random breakages. That's not an hour's work

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#98
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20% bump for the most budget-sensitive option is a crazy increase. Sure it's fine if you only have one, but I'm sure there are many folk who have hundreds

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

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#99
bandwidth limit? no thanks

i'll stick with Scaleway

there is something about digital ocean, they are stuck in the past, the only things they are doing these days is catching up with the competition while at the same time keep their useless restrictions like the bandwidth limit

Re: DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

#100

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.

The $4 droplet is a new option that is similar to what their current $5 droplet used to be some years ago. DO has never had a $2.50 droplet to my knowledge.

EDIT: I just saw your comment clarifying that you were speaking about Vultr. That wasn't clear from your phrasing, but I wanted to acknowledge it here.

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