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Re:DigitalOcean App Platform by names_are_hard on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:11AM (#24717987)
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

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Re:DigitalOcean App Platform by NOGDP on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:30AM (#24720051)
> 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.

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