Re:DigitalOcean App Platform
by NOGDP on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @06:57PM
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The digital ocean volume pricing of $1/10GB per month seems very steep... I can literally buy fresh SSDs every month for that money. The container pricing is reasonable though.
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You're reading it wrong.
For $5/month you can get 250GB of storage with 1TB outgoing.
Additional is $1/100GB and $10/TB
I must be missing something: https://i.imgur.com/3PNqSt5.png
Edit: You're talking about spaces[1], I'm talking about volumes[2].
In digital ocean, I believe you get a volume for free with your $5/month instance/droplet (it's not added separately, which differs from most other cloud providers).
The screenshot you shared is attempting to add additional volumes to a droplet. See the pricing for droplets, it includes 25GB of SSD and 1TB of transfer.
Re:DigitalOcean App Platform
by names_are_hard on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:11AM
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This is the approximately going rate for all the major cloud providers (links [0]). Sure, you could buy your own SSDs, but how are you going to connect them to the VMs? I suppose this might be where their profit is, especially because these are logical volumes anyway. But it's not like you can just go out and beat this price at home with minimal effort.
[0] Amazon ($0.1/GB): https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/
Azure ($0.075/GB): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-di...
Google ($0.17/GB): https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/#section-7
edit: formatting
> But it's not like you can just go out and beat this price at home with minimal effort.
That's exactly what I did. Taking the cost of my time for setting everything up and maintaining it, I estimate the net cost is about 1/10th of what it would be in the cloud.