Tell HN: Digital Ocean will start collecting fees for backups

Re:Tell HN: Digital Ocean will start collecting fees for bac... by toomuchtodo on Thursday January 29, 2015 @05:30PM (#8969314)

To snapshot EBS volumes in EC2 is pennies per GB. 20% flat is crazy.

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Re:Tell HN: Digital Ocean will start collecting fees for bac... by jrs235 on Thursday January 29, 2015 @05:44PM (#8969379)

Its really not though, as long as you are using the smaller droplets.

$5/month 20 GB droplet would be 80 GB of backups for $1.25 on AWS S3 that would cost $2.40

$10/month 30 GB droplet would be 120 GB of backups for $2.50 on AWS S3 that would cost $3.60

$20/month 40 GB droplet would be 160 GB of backups for $5.00 on AWS S3 that would cost $4.80

$40/month 60 GB droplet would be 240 GB of backups for $10.00 on AWS S3 that would cost $7.20

$80/month 80 GB droplet would be 320 GB of backups for $20.00 on AWS S3 that would cost $9.6

ADD: Then if you compare outgoing to internet bandwidth costs DO is better.

Assume you use all 1 TB of your small droplets bandwidth. That's included in your $5 while on AWS that will cost you an extra $89.91.

UPDATE: Bandwidth pricing for droplets is for incoming and outgoing, so assuming 50/50 (bad assumption) then AWS would cost you $44.91 more per month.

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Re:Tell HN: Digital Ocean will start collecting fees for bac... by Someone1234 on Thursday January 29, 2015 @05:31PM (#8969317)

DO also do snapshots. This is about their backup offering.

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