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Once they double the RAM on all plans like Linode and Vultr did, I will move all of my servers back to DigitalOcean.

I love these features but double the RAM for the same price still outweighs them.

Vultr has the cheaper side down I will admit, but their network hasn't been to great for me. It's great for development work but for production-level stuff I wouldn't put anything on it.

Linode is like that old king on the block. They've had security issues in the past (multiple) and since they do store your credit card information those did get released (If I recall). They're decent and they work. They're a bit slower than the other two in my opinion, but they work and that's something I need.

DigitalOcean has been fairly solid and reliable. Yeah you can say you get more resources for how much you spend elsewhere, but DigitalOcean has been more reliable and solid than Vultr. I mean I remember opening support tickets with them and their response being "We took care of someone else on that node. Go ahead." Took me a solid 2 hours just to install a Ubuntu image on one of their (Vultr's) storage nodes. DigitalOcean has never had to give those kinds of responses to me and overall performance and the composition of their nodes has been fairly solid and reliable.

Yeah Vultr and Linode are cheaper and you get more, but I really feel DigitalOcean is solid and more reliable than Vultr. I mean Vultr's SLA is 100% uptime, but their credit return policy is to the effects of "we'll just give you your cheap money back". I don't care about credits and I just want my service online and not having to worry about anything, and most of Vultr's answers has usually been "wait" or "we did it" (but no real long-term solution to the problem). DO has been focusing on providing long-term solutions to problems I've had and no "bs" excuses. Linode has been solid as well, but don't have many of the features DO is starting to roll out with (which fair enough, it's their decision). DO has nothing but praise from me.

Vultr has been rock solid for me for years in the Sydney region.

I had so many problems with Linode. The company itself seems really poorly structured, too.

Do you consider this when you're talking about value? I know little about vultr.

5 vs 10 vs 20 vs 40 dollars doesn't mean much, and Linode pricing starts to converge on DO's after the $80 price point.

> 5 vs 10 vs 20 vs 40 dollars doesn't mean much

This depends entirely on what you're doing with it. For a hobby project, it makes a big difference to me.

That's a good point. I forget, because I have a bunch of DO boxes: several, sometimes, for each client.

This is exactly why my next server will be on Vultr, too, although I still curse Linode for still not having block storage and forcing me to pay double price for a larger server even though I just need 20 more GB of disk space.

Not supporting Linode, but can't you use something like AWS for that?

Hmm, how do you mean? Mount an EC2 volume on a Linode server? The latency would be horrible.

Or S3, or another DO box, I guess. You're right that you'd never get excellent latency, but it could be good for storage.

Unfortunately it's a database that's gotten big, so I need low latency :/

Hmm! How big?

40 GB or so, enough that I needed a larger server :/

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