> especially when you avoid the biggest cloud players. I find it hard to find a balance between the OVH model of 'purchase a server for a year with discounts f

> especially when you avoid the biggest cloud players. I find it hard to find a balance between the OVH model of 'purchase a server for a year with discounts for a 12/24 year commitment' and AWS where you can purchase a single hour of bare metal compute for cheap. I would say DigitalOcean fills this, but it's not like they've committed to bare metal, and I imagine they'll continue to look into expanding their suite of managed offerings like Apps[0] (which I think is heroku-esque auto scaling for containers) since the margins on these have to be way higher than their VPS offerings. 0: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform