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Re:Tell HN: Digital Ocean will start collecting fees for bac... by rpietro on Thursday January 29, 2015 @05:42PM (#8969374)
agree this is nuts. EC2 always an option
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Re:Tell HN: Digital Ocean will start collecting fees for bac... by stephenboyd on Thursday January 29, 2015 @09:03PM (#8970104)
It's an option for people who want the convenience. DO has free snapshots and you can roll your own backup system anyway.
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Re:Tell HN: Digital Ocean will start collecting fees for bac... by logn on Friday January 30, 2015 @06:39PM (#8975220)
If their original prices were 20% higher, I don't think you'd be saying Digital Ocean pricing is nuts. Backups are just an easy way to get people who don't mind spending money to spend money. Everyone else can do their own backups or take free snapshots (which has an API as well).
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