Digitalocean price increase + new $4 droplet
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https://www.digitalocean.com/try/new-pricing
Price increases across the board, except for the new $4 droplet, though if I'm looking at the big boys AWS Lightsail with their $3.5 droplet has served me well over the past few months.
Thoughts?
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Many question marks inside my head...
Arguably the only good thing about the upcoming changes except the new 4 dollar plan seems to be more granular billing for managed k8s, but given the overall price increase, I don't think it will make any difference unless you have really unpredictable load levels.
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I got a $5 droplet in 2013, it's still $5 nearly 10 years later, they have increased the resource in that time, not the price. So from a financial point of view, it makes sense. In fact, you could say a price increase is long overdue.
Can't see many customers having an issue with it. Their overall product offering is very good vs other providers. They are not lowend, they have very real overheads that need to be paid for.
And for all those saying, ah but Vultr or Linode is now cheaper. It only takes one, the rest will wait until they pick up a few new customers from DO then increase pricing too. It's coming across the hosting industry, to be honest. As soon as those fixed contracts end the energy price hikes will hit everyone hard.
One reason I keep using DO is because they have free bandwidth for grandfathered accounts, hope they won't end that in the future.
They had some adjacent cloud-y services the others didn't. Object storage etc
Many hosts offer unlimited bandwidth for a better price
Not that many.
Very few in fact offer unmetered gigabit for less than $4, without even taking into account location, bandwidth quality or service reliability.
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From a lay person’s pov:
Which would be me.
DO tutorials are very good, detailed and easy to follow.
Google Cloud is the most confusing , AWS haven’t used much… Vultr and Linode need to pull up their socks to bring the docs at par with DO.
I believe DO had first mover advantage in the space with it comes to detailed How To’s. Community contributions also helped.
Service wise today probably not much difference among the non-enterprise oriented (read: google/aws/azure…) players.
I have used a few from the names from the services I mentioned. And had I not discovered LE world, I would have opted for DO.
Indeed a good question to ponder upon
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Prices go up, currencies go down, pays remain more-less the same.
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Not real unmetered. And DO iirc is 10 Gbps
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ok fair enough I guess it's a good deal for the few people who have used them for over a decade. for the rest of us it's not that great