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DigitalOcean – More CPUs, memory, and SSD storage for less money

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30 pointsfelipebueno12 comments

Still about 4x as much as Hetzner cloud. Too bad they're only in Europe..

Don't go with Hetzner if you value whatever you're working on. I was working on a machine learning project and they deleted everything in my account without any warning. One of their employees did this deliberately because they weren't sure if my last name was correct. There was no attempt to remedy this by contacting me, and they had no way to restore the data. They told me that I would just have to start from scratch.

You get what you pay for.

I've used them with vps, dedicated server and cloud services and never had any issues. Are you sure you didn't get email warnings that you ignored?

Apart from that, having off-site backup is crucial either way and should be done with any provider.

I got a singular e-mail that said I needed to address a ticket attached to the e-mail, which wasn't attached, and I needed to address this by logging into their website, which I couldn't since they deactivated my account. By the time their phone support opened in the morning everything was gone.

Adding offsite backup was literally my next task as well. I think I just got too comfortable from never having a problem with any other VPS host in the past. Lesson learned.

Original announcement was Jan/16. https://blog.digitalocean.com/new-droplet-plans/

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159214, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185593

Wow, this pricing is great. It's been a few years since I looked into Digital Ocean, it seems like they've made a lot of improvements since I last used them for a small Rails app.

This means that for me, Vultr has lost its primary selling point

So what is DO's primary selling point then?

Would really like the ability to use custom iso / os on DO instances.

That would be nice indeed. On a separate note, I love the fact that they support freebsd!

You can do this on Vultr.

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