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HN, the place where almost everyone makes at least 120k TC, with many of you hitting 300k. Yet a 1$ increase after 12 years is unreasonable ?

nijave 4y ago
No, sending a vague email that makes me waste my time to figure out how much more I have to pay them is unreasonable. They could have just included prices side by side and a sample invoice under the new system with the last month's usage
- 999900000999 4y ago
  Does AWS do this ? Unless your using DO at a very large scale the pricing difference isn't significant. I personally use AWS now since my skills with AWS are useful at work as well. That's the biggest perk of AWS to me. At the same time I've always found AWS to have convoluted confusing billing, at least DO is straight forward even if it's gone up a buck or so.
  - nijave 4y ago
    I don't think AWS has ever raised prices. Generally for a given service, prices are fixed and they'll either release a new version or a new machine generation with new pricing (and the old version usually has a very generous deprecation window). AWS pricing can be confusing but they also offer significantly more services. I think it'd be more straight forward if they had the same number of products as Digital Ocean. Afaik they bill for the same things.
    - 999900000999 4y ago
      Then use AWS. As a sibling comment points out the price increase is less than inflation
TheNewsIsHere 4y ago
I totally get the sentiment. At the same time, plenty of us are trying to build businesses with no external funding, where every dollar might matter. Recently Datadog surprised me with a nearly 21x-over-typical bill for features that had previously communicated as being disabled and non-billed, by their own billing team. Just weeks before. No changes on my side since. If it were my spouse’s company they’d spend more money (in terms of paid time) retrieving that than they’d get back. They wouldn’t care and it wouldn’t ever show up in the billions on their financials. For my small business that was a shocker.
turtlebits 4y ago
To me, not showing existing prices is customer hostile and a bit shady. That said DO has always been expensive to me. hetzner, OVH, or the swarth of VPS hosts on lowendbox.com is preferable to me.
andai 4y ago
>1$ increase after 12 years Adjusted for inflation, it should be $6.63.

nijave 4y ago

No, sending a vague email that makes me waste my time to figure out how much more I have to pay them is unreasonable. They could have just included prices side by side and a sample invoice under the new system with the last month's usage

999900000999 4y ago
Does AWS do this ? Unless your using DO at a very large scale the pricing difference isn't significant. I personally use AWS now since my skills with AWS are useful at work as well. That's the biggest perk of AWS to me. At the same time I've always found AWS to have convoluted confusing billing, at least DO is straight forward even if it's gone up a buck or so.
- nijave 4y ago
  I don't think AWS has ever raised prices. Generally for a given service, prices are fixed and they'll either release a new version or a new machine generation with new pricing (and the old version usually has a very generous deprecation window). AWS pricing can be confusing but they also offer significantly more services. I think it'd be more straight forward if they had the same number of products as Digital Ocean. Afaik they bill for the same things.
  - 999900000999 4y ago
    Then use AWS. As a sibling comment points out the price increase is less than inflation

TheNewsIsHere 4y ago

I totally get the sentiment. At the same time, plenty of us are trying to build businesses with no external funding, where every dollar might matter. Recently Datadog surprised me with a nearly 21x-over-typical bill for features that had previously communicated as being disabled and non-billed, by their own billing team. Just weeks before. No changes on my side since. If it were my spouse’s company they’d spend more money (in terms of paid time) retrieving that than they’d get back. They wouldn’t care and it wouldn’t ever show up in the billions on their financials. For my small business that was a shocker.

turtlebits 4y ago

To me, not showing existing prices is customer hostile and a bit shady. That said DO has always been expensive to me. hetzner, OVH, or the swarth of VPS hosts on lowendbox.com is preferable to me.

andai 4y ago

>1$ increase after 12 years Adjusted for inflation, it should be $6.63.