They increased what was provided in the old $5 a couple of times, before raising the price to $6, though.
Also, there’s a new $4 entry-tier droplet that has the same CPU, the same amount of ram and the same amount of storage as my $5 droplet used to: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
The included bandwidth is only half as much (500GiB), but I suspect most people who would have gotten $5 droplets in the past will now be getting $4 ones.
Yea, it doesn't seem like such huge news to me they're intoducing a new $4 droplet when they had previously had a $5 droplet...and bumping that one to $6.
The $4 droplet is a new option that is similar to what their current $5 droplet used to be some years ago. DO has never had a $2.50 droplet to my knowledge.
EDIT: I just saw your comment clarifying that you were speaking about Vultr. That wasn't clear from your phrasing, but I wanted to acknowledge it here.
For one of my projects running a few droplets, it's an almost 10% increase. Sure they didn't increase the prices for many years, but I would have expected that new instances would got the new prices, not an increase on existing ones...
The A0 standard and the A0 basic prices did not change. Both of those instances will be dramatically outperformed by a Linode VPS or Digital Ocean droplet for 1/2 to 1/3rd the price.
Seems like the $4 droplet is a smoke screen hiding price increases. I'm a long time DO customer. I wish they would have just said "prices are going up" and listed a comparison of the old price with the new increased price. In their new price list, they do not list the old price... so you cant tell if they are going up and down. Because the article starts off with the $4 droplet announcement, you get a feeling that they have made changes to their infrastructure and prices will be going down to pass along those savings.
I was chosen to use the preview and the pricing was originally was $0.02 storage and $0.01 transfer without the first $5. I guess that most of the people spent a lot less than $5. Increasing the minimum spend to 5 should give them a great profit for the people that don't use it that much. I don't know what will happen if a lot of people start using it a lot.
Wow, it's gone up! When we talked, it was $10k/year, and then there was an additional cost for every update we pushed out. It depended on the speed, size and number of devices receiving the update.
Also, there’s a new $4 entry-tier droplet that has the same CPU, the same amount of ram and the same amount of storage as my $5 droplet used to: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
The included bandwidth is only half as much (500GiB), but I suspect most people who would have gotten $5 droplets in the past will now be getting $4 ones.
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