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Re:DigitalOcean raises $3.2M Seed Round by jeffasinger on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @12:14PM (#6173736)
Hourly billing is huge for us.

Our service is mostly CPU bound, embarrassingly parallel, and so far, 90% of usage is centered on a time slot that's about 8 hours per week long.

We will save a ton of money by scaling down during the off hours, which means only Amazon, Rackspace, and a few others make any sense at all.

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Re:DigitalOcean raises $3.2M Seed Round by nthnclrk on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @08:35PM (#6176631)
I agree. This was massive for me. Being able to create a Droplet (from an existing backup) within a minute, test out an installation for a day, and have it cost almost nothing is huge.
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