DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

Re:DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing by oefrha on Monday May 16, 2022 @11:29AM (#31398900)

I've been using Linode instead of DigitalOcean since ~2015 IIRC. I just checked their pricing page [1] and find it pretty hostile and confusing. First, you won't see any tech spec at all without clicking on a card; "starts at $blah/mo" means precious little without tech specs. Then, once you click on "Droplets" you get another grid(s) of cards where the tech specs are teeny-tiny and comparison is very painful. Compare this to the classic table-based pricing page from Linode [2], where everything is very straightforward. I won't go to Wayback Machine and dig out DO's pricing page from back when they were still the HN darling, but I'm pretty sure it was a straightforward table-based layout. Who the heck prefer this new mess?

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing

[2] https://www.linode.com/pricing/

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Re:DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing by 8bitbuddhist on Monday May 16, 2022 @01:14PM (#31400471)

I'll dig it up for you. This is from Feb 2020, and is much more straightforward than what's on the site now. https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081345/https://www.digit...

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Re:DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing by treesknees on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:03PM (#31401884)

I've been a Linode user since 2011, my only minor complaint is I wish they had kept the 10% annual payment discount. Seems like they jumped over to hourly billing to match the competition (I suppose if you really are spinning up VMs for less than a month, hourly is nice. But if you're running your VM 24/7 for 11 years... you just get to pay slightly more than you were previously.)

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Re:DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing by ketanip on Monday May 16, 2022 @01:21PM (#31400568)

I really like that about Linode, no click to see crap.

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Re:DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing by Brian-Puccio on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:11PM (#31401963)

I’m also a happy Linode user since … a decade? more? I remember the phpBB forums for their customers from forever ago. I’m sure there are cheaper out there, but given the already pretty low cost, I’m not interested in jumping ship. I hope their recent acquisition doesn’t change much.

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Re:DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing by fomine3 on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:59PM (#31405581)

I wish Akamai won't change Linode.

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