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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean - Price increase

Discussion in 'Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting' started by buik, May 24, 2022.

  1. buik

    buik “The best traveler is one without a camera.”

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    Yeah got the email about this a while back. Effectively a 20% price increase. While sad, it probably is expected given the global inflationary pressures everyone is experiencing right now. My usual sweet spot for VPS pricing is $10/cpu core i.e. US$40/month for 4x CPUs.

    Curious how many mainstream OSes which have moved to systemd still work well with just 512MB memory? DigitalOcean's new $4/month with 1 vCPU, 512MB memory, 500GB bandwidth, and a 10GB SSD still has an audience?
     
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  4. buik

    buik “The best traveler is one without a camera.”

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    DNS server. Even with only 512MB of memory, you can handle quite a few DNS queries. DigitalOcean has a good network with good connections and lots of peers. Partly for this reason, it is ideal for a cheap DNS server.