FYI Vultr & Digital Ocean Price Increase

[wardmundy]

Just an FYI that the entry level platform at both Vultr High Frequency and Digital Ocean now costs $6/month, a 20% increase. On Vultr, the Cloud Compute platform (not the default setting any longer) remains $5/month, but snapshots are now pay-as-you-go, effective October 1. And automatic backups remain 20% of base monthly cost.

 

[hawk#1]

Still not a bad price, but better hurry and get system before the first if you are considering getting one

 

[krzykat]

but snapshots are now pay-as-you-go, effective October 1.

Good - so I won't be limited to the number of snapshots I take any longer. I want more, I pay more. I use less, I pay less. I'm good with it.

 

[KNERD]

Actually after looking. There is no price increase on Digital Ocean. They are offering a newer service with NMVe an an option. The regular SSD service still starts at $5 a month

 

[KNERD]

Now the price at Digital Ocean has gone up.

The basic droplet with 1GB/SSD has increased from $5 to $6
The Premium with 1GB/NMVe has increased from $6 to $7

 

[KNERD]

Something fishy going on at D.O.

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A long while back, I had their old $10 basic VPS which became the $5 one later. When there was a price decrease for the $5 , they never decreased the price of the $10 I had up for over three years.

Now all of a sudden there is a price increase on the $5 on 1 July, they sure did quicky apply the price increase om that one.

Looks like I need to put in a ticket to complain.

 

[billsimon]

When they did the revamp that I think you are referring to, the configurations were different and that's why they didn't adjust prices. The old VM configuration could no longer be launched but you could continue to run it at the same price you had agreed to. This is different and I don't think your complaints are going to yield anything satisfying.

 

[KNERD]

When they did the revamp that I think you are referring to, the configurations were different and that's why they didn't adjust prices. The old VM configuration could no longer be launched but you could continue to run it at the same price you had agreed to. This is different and I don't think your complaints are going to yield anything satisfying.

Not that much difference in configuration, and could had at least adjusted the price? Maybe split it, and made it $7.50?

 

[wardmundy]

Still have two $2.50 VPS servers running at Vultr with 50¢ automatic backups. It has prompted me to start migrating these servers to CrownCloud which is even cheaper.

 

[KNERD]

Still have two $2.50 VPS servers running at Vultr with 50¢ automatic backups. It has prompted me to start migrating these servers to CrownCloud which is even cheaper.

Thanks for that tip. Looks like their $50 a year plan is the same configuration as D.O.'s $10 a month one: a $70 a year savings.

The thing I like about D.O. is the ability to upgrade on the fly if you need more specs, and a private LAN so you could have private connections between multiple servers without needing to set up a VPN.

I will probably give them a go once my credit runs out in a couple of months.

 

[kenn10]

Crown Cloud and Rack Nerds are both very good. I'm about to drop my Vultr instance having seen consistency and good service from these two.

 

[dicko]

Anyone with more dynamic needs and more than one PBX could look at DO's 'doctl' API which allows scripting almost everything from starting a new machine, cloning an existing one, backups, snapshots, firewalling, dns. The ability to 'resize' my machine's cores and memory is an enormous money saver for me if you need a 200 person jitsi conference scheduled for next wednesday . . .

The 'private network' within a data center makes 'tie lines' between your PBI secure, cheap and fast.

(it is quite cheap ;-) )

 

[wardmundy]

Our forum caters to many different audiences and, as @dicko reminds, different folks have very different needs.

 

[Brianmac]

Vultr has been ROCK SOLID for me over the last few years. I have no issue with them bumping up price $1 here and there....
Remember the old days with a PBX in the office worth $1,000's and to fix, $1,000's...

 

[wardmundy]

Vultr has been ROCK SOLID for me over the last few years. I have no issue with them bumping up price $1 here and there....
Remember the old days with a PBX in the office worth $1,000's and to fix, $1,000's...

Amen. Our Nortel system for 100 users cost $250,000 to install back in the 80's, and I shudder to think what the annual maintenance fee was. It was several hundred dollars every time you wanted to add an extension (not including the phone). And, when you ran out of free ports, that was another whopper bill. So... count your blessings.

 

[Brianmac]

Whats wrong with charging a couple of hundred for an added extension....lol