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DigitalOcean – More CPUs, memory, and SSD storage for less money

30 points by felipebueno 9y ago

mtmail 9y ago
Original announcement was Jan/16. https://blog.digitalocean.com/new-droplet-plans/ https://blog.digitalocean.com/new-droplet-plans/
artellectual 9y ago
Would really like the ability to use custom iso / os on DO instances.
- napsterbr 9y ago
  That would be nice indeed. On a separate note, I love the fact that they support freebsd!
- jdmulloy 9y ago
  You can do this on Vultr.
fareesh 9y ago
This means that for me, Vultr has lost its primary selling point
- jazoom 9y ago
  So what is DO's primary selling point then?
detaro 9y ago
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159214, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185593 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185593
dx034 9y ago
Still about 4x as much as Hetzner cloud. Too bad they're only in Europe..
- rando444 9y ago
  Don't go with Hetzner if you value whatever you're working on. I was working on a machine learning project and they deleted everything in my account without any warning. One of their employees did this deliberately because they weren't sure if my last name was correct. There was no attempt to remedy this by contacting me, and they had no way to restore the data. They told me that I would just have to start from scratch. You get what you pay for.
  - dx034 9y ago
    I've used them with vps, dedicated server and cloud services and never had any issues. Are you sure you didn't get email warnings that you ignored? Apart from that, having off-site backup is crucial either way and should be done with any provider.
    - rando444 9y ago
      I got a singular e-mail that said I needed to address a ticket attached to the e-mail, which wasn't attached, and I needed to address this by logging into their website, which I couldn't since they deactivated my account. By the time their phone support opened in the morning everything was gone. Adding offsite backup was literally my next task as well. I think I just got too comfortable from never having a problem with any other VPS host in the past. Lesson learned.
beegeezuz 9y ago
They can keep lowering the prices, other than spammers, hackers and an occasional dev they won't attract. Their staff is not technical, rude (too big to fail) and you have more than decent chances to land on a recycled IP that was used for malicious act previously. They cannot be compared to Hetzner, more to OVH.
jrs95 9y ago
Wow, this pricing is great. It's been a few years since I looked into Digital Ocean, it seems like they've made a lot of improvements since I last used them for a small Rails app.

30 points by felipebueno 9y ago

Original announcement was Jan/16. https://blog.digitalocean.com/new-droplet-plans/ https://blog.digitalocean.com/new-droplet-plans/

artellectual 9y ago

Would really like the ability to use custom iso / os on DO instances.

napsterbr 9y ago
That would be nice indeed. On a separate note, I love the fact that they support freebsd!
jdmulloy 9y ago
You can do this on Vultr.

fareesh 9y ago

This means that for me, Vultr has lost its primary selling point

jazoom 9y ago
So what is DO's primary selling point then?

detaro 9y ago

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159214, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185593 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185593

dx034 9y ago

Still about 4x as much as Hetzner cloud. Too bad they're only in Europe..

rando444 9y ago
Don't go with Hetzner if you value whatever you're working on. I was working on a machine learning project and they deleted everything in my account without any warning. One of their employees did this deliberately because they weren't sure if my last name was correct. There was no attempt to remedy this by contacting me, and they had no way to restore the data. They told me that I would just have to start from scratch. You get what you pay for.
- dx034 9y ago
  I've used them with vps, dedicated server and cloud services and never had any issues. Are you sure you didn't get email warnings that you ignored? Apart from that, having off-site backup is crucial either way and should be done with any provider.
  - rando444 9y ago
    I got a singular e-mail that said I needed to address a ticket attached to the e-mail, which wasn't attached, and I needed to address this by logging into their website, which I couldn't since they deactivated my account. By the time their phone support opened in the morning everything was gone. Adding offsite backup was literally my next task as well. I think I just got too comfortable from never having a problem with any other VPS host in the past. Lesson learned.

beegeezuz 9y ago

They can keep lowering the prices, other than spammers, hackers and an occasional dev they won't attract. Their staff is not technical, rude (too big to fail) and you have more than decent chances to land on a recycled IP that was used for malicious act previously. They cannot be compared to Hetzner, more to OVH.

jrs95 9y ago

Wow, this pricing is great. It's been a few years since I looked into Digital Ocean, it seems like they've made a lot of improvements since I last used them for a small Rails app.