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AWS has their own competitive service against DigitalOcean called Lightsail. Their cheapest plan is $3.50 month (512MB/20GB SSD), the bigger plans are roughly similar in pricing and features to DigitalOcean.

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The irony of this article is that current customers like myself who read this news are now looking at alternatives.

I spend roughly $120/m with DO and have done for the last 2 years. I have a majority 5 usd droplets and 1 20 usd droplet.

LightSail may be the way to go for now.

Here comes all the migration work.. Fun :)

Do yourself a favour and compare the performance of DO and Lightsail before you migrate. It may be the same or similar in pricing, but every benchmark I've seen shows worse performance on Lightsail. On a value for money basis, Lightsail is most likely more expensive.

Why migrate? Afaict, Digital Ocean isn't going anywhere, it's mostly internal restructuring. I'm sure you posted before the comment by one of the cofounders, so definitely give it a read before you make any decisions.

Personally, I have more instances on vultr and linode, but I still keep an instance at DO so I have a reason to keep tabs on them. I have no qualms about recommending their service to others.

Yes, I did indeed post this before the comment from the co-founder.

Sticking to DO!

Last time I touched Lightsail it looked like a t2 instance rebrand without the option to pay for extra CPU credits.

It grinds to a half if you use up your compute stipend and you cannot do anything about it. That's a big risk for a VPS-like use-case.

t2.nano is fine for a low traffic website, which is what most Lightsail instances will be.

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