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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.
by msbarnett 10y ago
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.
- sgloutnikov 10y agoLove seeing competition at work. Two times in a week, after the T-Mobile/Verizon rate plan wars :)
- edko 10y agoRather 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.
- msbarnett 10y ago6-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.
- Crisco 10y agoI would, however, love that price point. It would be nice if I could run a few light-weight services on a VPS for $2.50 a month and then put my websites and other projects on a beefier VM. 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.
- msbarnett 10y agoPure guess, but I'd imagine that payment processor fees don't make it particularly profitable to offer price levels much lower than $5.
- raverbashing 10y agoOne thing that could help is having the ability to pre pay/load credits, so you could have a small discount that way
- Something1234 10y agoThis is the same theory that NearlyFreeSpeech.net uses.
- jldugger 10y agoLinode / AWS already offer prepaid discounts.
- ksec 10y agoWhere Could i find that ? For Linode AND AWS Discount.
- raverbashing 10y agoFor AWS look at "reserved instances" I'm not sure about Linode
- triage4 10y agoFor Linode: https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/prepaid-billing-and-payments-legacy#discounts-for-prepayment https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/prepaid-billing-and-pay...
- chrisan 10y agoMake it so you have to buy at least 2 months then
- vinceguidry 10y agoOr even pay up front for the year. Perfect for the hobbyist market. I'd probably buy four of them.
- sedachv 10y agoARIN charges for IPv4 address allocation (https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html) and I read that below $5 a month it becomes unprofitable for hosting companies just because of the cost of leasing IP addresses. If your services can run on shared hosting there are a bunch of hosts for less than $1 a month around.
- mkj 10y agoCharge a dollar for ipv4, or ipv6 is free?
- nik736 10y agoWell, you get a 10 Gbps pipe with DO, while only 75 Mbps with Linode, lol!
- msbarnett 10y agoAppears to have been a typo. It now starts at 1000 Mbps on the smaller instances.
- tomschlick 10y agoLinode is 40Gbps IN, 1Gbps out for the $5 instance. The 75Mbps was a misprint.
- biot 10y agoFrom Soh (Linode) in the comments [0]: "We’ve deliberated and brought the floor for all plans to have 1000Mbps. Thanks for your feedback!" So it appears that 75Mbps was the initial speed but after some internal deliberation (possibly influenced by feedback), they raised it to 1000Mbps. [0] https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/#comment-1280523 https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and...
- tomschlick 10y agoHad not seen that, thanks!
- IFeelOK 10y agoWe did an on-the-spot upgrade to that speed, the new floor for all plans will be 1000Mbps. The blog should be updated now, might need a refresh to see: https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/ https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and...
- x0x0 10y agoThat 10gbps is highly variable. I use one of my DO instances as staging for file transfers. 2 days a month, I can barely get more than 30K/s from their sf data center to comcast. Other days, I get 5M/s. Their network is shitty. And I don't think I'm being rate-limited; it's 1-2G transfer per day.
- owenwil 10y agoWhy? DIgitalocean tends to be easier to use and more reliable. I'm ok with paying a little more given these factors...
- 00deadbeef 10y agoEasier maybe, but my experience of their comparative reliability has been the complete opposite.
- msbarnett 10y agoI don't have the real numbers in front of me, but some back-of-the-phone math says we'd save something like $640 a month for equivalent RAM, which is our big limiter. DO is slicker, but it's not 8k/year slicker. I can do better things with that money.
- ben_bai 10y agoI don't get the whole VPS thing anyway. 5$ for playing around is great but anything that costs more is just not worth it. 60$/month for 16GB, 1CPU, 20GB disk for VPS... in comparison a root server with real remote console access, 16GB, 4 core AMD, 4TB disks, unlimited traffic costs me 30EUR/month (30$/month). Or for 60EUR/month (60$) I could get a root server with 64GB Ram, 2x500GB SSD, i7-6700, 30TB traffic.
- greendata 10y agoWhat company?
- ben_bai 10y agoMostly Strato and Hetzner.
- msbarnett 10y agoI've pointed this out to people on numerous occasions, and the push-back I always get is concerns about timely provisioning if they ever need more capacity and/or new servers in case of catastrophe. OVH et al can get you servers quickly if they have them "in stock", but supply fluctuates wildly, especially on the cheaper end.
- mwpmaybe 10y agoJust being able to programmatically provision a server at a moment's notice—even in normal day-to-day (i.e. non-catastrophic) situations—is a critical tool in my toolbelt. You can take a snapshot of a VM, you can move it to a different host, you can spin up a new instance to test a major upgrade, you can clone a cluster for a few hours of testing, you can scale up and down...
- 00deadbeef 10y agoYou pay for the scalability. Your 4 core AMD is always a 4 core AMD unless you migrate to a new server. Your 1 core Linode can become a 20 core Linode in a few minutes, for just a few hours while you need the capacity, and then go back to being a cheap 1 core Linode.