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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by jldugger on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:32PM (#22077619)
> Based on having run a similar (now mostly defunct) company in the past, I would guess that 80% of their customers are on the $5/mo plan.

I wonder if the Always Free tiers of GCP / OCI have helped DO in this regard. You can get a lot of free VMs these days, so maybe other cheapasses like myself have left the DO / Linode / etc platforms.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by ses1984 on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:33PM (#22078289)
I personally have canceled a linode instance and replaced it with GCP free tier vm about a year ago.

I feel like GCP/AWS free tier have probably hurt the $5/mo hosting business a lot.

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