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DO recently upped their specs. Now you get 1 GB ram for $5/month, which are the specs of their previous $10/month tier. I'm going through this weekend and switc

DO recently upped their specs. Now you get 1 GB ram for $5/month, which are the specs of their previous $10/month tier. I'm going through this weekend and switching my $10 instance to a $5.

TaylorAlexander 9y ago
I may have to check my droplets... do you know if the upgrades automatic by chance?
- froindt 9y ago
  I don't believe it's automatic. I had 2 512 mb servers and 1 GB server going and none had increased specs automatically.
mercer 9y ago
I recently switched to Hetzner Cloud, which offers significantly more at lower prices. For about $2.50 you get about the equivalent of a $10 droplet. Only downside I can think of is that they don't have servers in the US (AFAIK) and I think they don't have a DNS panel.
- amedvednikov 9y ago
  According to their FAQ, they are working on it: > Will you add additional locations in different geographic regions? > We are actively looking into this option right now.
- pixelHD 9y ago
  I've moved to Hetzner from DO as well. It's cheaper than digital ocean. However, - They have two data center locations, both in Germany, which might be good or bad depending on how view the laws. - Their web interface looks good too, but doesn't have the features that DO provides. - Depending on what option you pick, some have commodity hardware (No ECC RAM, i7 processors instead of server hardware). - [Rumor]I've heard that they are very hands off, and will take down your instance much more aggressively. As someone on reddit put it, "If Disney was a cloud provider, anything Disney won't be comfortable to host, Hetzner won't."
- brian_cunnie 9y ago
  I use Hetzner for one of my NTP servers which handles traffic for pool.ntp.org. It's rock-solid and has no problem with latency. I had a DO NTP server for a brief time, but the latency was all over the map, so much so that it was continually pulled out of rotation by the pool. I wasn't sure if my VM happened to be on an oversubscribed host or maybe the network to that datacenter was oversubscribed, but in either case my NTP server wasn't usable, so I decommissioned my DO server.

DO recently upped their specs. Now you get 1 GB ram for $5/month, which are the specs of their previous $10/month tier. I'm going through this weekend and switching my $10 instance to a $5.

TaylorAlexander 9y ago

I may have to check my droplets... do you know if the upgrades automatic by chance?

froindt 9y ago
I don't believe it's automatic. I had 2 512 mb servers and 1 GB server going and none had increased specs automatically.

mercer 9y ago

I recently switched to Hetzner Cloud, which offers significantly more at lower prices. For about $2.50 you get about the equivalent of a $10 droplet. Only downside I can think of is that they don't have servers in the US (AFAIK) and I think they don't have a DNS panel.

amedvednikov 9y ago
According to their FAQ, they are working on it: > Will you add additional locations in different geographic regions? > We are actively looking into this option right now.
pixelHD 9y ago
I've moved to Hetzner from DO as well. It's cheaper than digital ocean. However, - They have two data center locations, both in Germany, which might be good or bad depending on how view the laws. - Their web interface looks good too, but doesn't have the features that DO provides. - Depending on what option you pick, some have commodity hardware (No ECC RAM, i7 processors instead of server hardware). - [Rumor]I've heard that they are very hands off, and will take down your instance much more aggressively. As someone on reddit put it, "If Disney was a cloud provider, anything Disney won't be comfortable to host, Hetzner won't."
brian_cunnie 9y ago
I use Hetzner for one of my NTP servers which handles traffic for pool.ntp.org. It's rock-solid and has no problem with latency. I had a DO NTP server for a brief time, but the latency was all over the map, so much so that it was continually pulled out of rotation by the pool. I wasn't sure if my VM happened to be on an oversubscribed host or maybe the network to that datacenter was oversubscribed, but in either case my NTP server wasn't usable, so I decommissioned my DO server.