DigitalOcean App Platform

Re:DigitalOcean App Platform by futhey on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:42PM (#24699739)

I like the idea of rebuilding Heroku without the command line. It's not for me, but it's probably for somebody.

There's just too much of a premium for this over a standard DigitalOcean droplet though. At the low end you're paying double for the same resources, and at the high end you're paying 4x.

I deployed a toy Node.js app that was a bit too resource hungry for 1 virtual CPU. The cheapest plan with 2 virtual CPUs is $150 per month (vs. $15 for a droplet with 2 virtual CPUs).

Seems like there are some pricing issues to work out.

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Re:DigitalOcean App Platform by jonfriesen on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:20PM (#24703608)

Hey futhey,

The team agreed that we had some gaps that needed to be filled, you will now see new plans:

Basic $40/month 4GB RAM & 2 Shared vCPUs

Pro $75/month 4GB RAM & 1 Dedicated vCPU

We've also increased the vCPU count on the Pro $50/month plan from 1 to 2 vCPUS so it's now:

Pro $50/month 4GB RAM & 2 Shared vCPUs

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Re:DigitalOcean App Platform by phildougherty on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:16PM (#24700140)

Thanks for your feedback on the pricing plans. We will definitely take a look at options and potentially roll out some additional plans soon.

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Re:DigitalOcean App Platform by tupputuppu on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:13PM (#24700124)

Not sure what you mean. Heroku can autodeploy from a Github repo just as well? You don't need the CLI for that

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