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DO's prices are why I'm a fan.
by sonnyblarney 8y ago
DO's prices are why I'm a fan.
- aviv 8y agoWe are heavy users of GCP and AWS, but still use DO for bandwidth-heavy workloads.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoAWS bandwidth charges are brutal, they are the secret billing item that kills products. It can't make sense to host any kind of web anything when paying 10 cents / Gig egress charges. If you have images at all ... nogo. It's really odd, like they don't want your business because that's definitely one line item that always makes me keep my eye on the exit.
- rb666 8y agoThis I don't understand, there's a million cheaper VPS providers. I can understand choosing DO cause it's hip and they have great tutorials, but price? Nope.
- ohashi 8y agoThey hit a balance of price, simplicity and I'm sure they will be there tomorrow though.
- geerlingguy 8y agoThat and as a user of 12 different LowEndBox-style providers, DigitalOcean is only marginally more expensive, with way less downtime, faster support response, an easy to use API, integrations with everything, and even planned maintenance windows which are clearly communicated. Most of the lower priced options are run on a more shoestring budget and get uptime measured in the 98s. Also, I find a lot more noisy neighbors with many LEB-style providers.
- StudentStuff 8y agoPerhaps OVH is worth a gander, I find it strikes a good balance between DO's pricing and the LowEndTalk providers, yet the uptime is still impressive. https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml
- thejosh 8y agoOVH is horrendous for their dedicated offering, especially when trying to cancel. Their webapp wouldn't work, they wanted me to do an API call to cancel, as they couldn't fix their UI.
- StudentStuff 8y agoHuh, I haven't had this issue on any of their brands. They tend to catch and fix most issues before I become aware on the dedicated machines I have with them. FYI OVH is a key contributor to OpenStack, they've made quite a few contributions to Ceph, sponsored LetsEncrypt, and host most game servers (and even Wikileaks!).
- c16 8y agoAdding to this, I once bought their hosted container service, and when I contacted them they told me they no longer supported this product. How?! Why was I able to order it in the first place?!
- subbu 8y agoI am a long time user of OVH. I don't care about fancy UI; I have hardly used it to get anything done except pay bills. I just wish they open a data center in India. That's the reason I was looking at DO; they have a DC in Bangalore.
- 1996 8y ago1000x time this. OVH only has a bad datacenter in Singapore. I tried and left. OVHs need to be in India and East Asia to interest me again.
- StavrosK 8y agoI don't see why, I switched from DO to Vultr and then to Hetzner because the price was 4-5 times higher. Maybe it is a bit more reliable, but when I can get five servers for the price of one, I can add a lot of redundancy...