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Comment by tpaksoy | Hacker News Reader

Why aren't they showing a comparison between old and new price? This seems deliberate...

> That’s why today we are announcing that for the first time we’re changing our prices to best serve you at every stage of your growth journey.

To best serve you at every stage of your growth journey it would seem. Or if you'd like a translation from stilted corporate speak into plain language: we went public and the line's gotta go up and engineers and hardware don't come cheap.

It more and more feels like going public is the big mistake in a lot of tech companies, because everything gets real squirrely after that for customers and employees.

Any more, whenever a company I use goes public or is acquired, I start looking for the egress. I'm happy that the founders of whatever it is got a nice payday, but I don't expect their creation to continue being worth using after that.

the thing is once you start private and giving options as comp, your only option is to go public eventually, or screw everyone that's every gotten options.

Profitable private companies that never want to go public can solve this by doing profit sharing with employees, but in tech there's often no profits for a very long time.

I agree. I understand pricing increases (even if I don't look forward to them) and I'm an adult, just tell me the difference in prices instead of deliberately obscuring that information. Not showing the prices smells of not standing beside your product/new pricing. I think DO is still worth it at the new prices, that said I'm having a hard time remembering when a cloud provider raised prices like this, normally the trend is down/same no?

Pricing page still shows current prices. It appears to be a roughly 20% increase across the board.

No, it's only 20% on the basic droplets (which currently top out at $80/month), it looks like 5% on everything else.

This is unfortunate, and seems to impact hobbyists more than larger production setups if true.

I love DO, but with the pretty basic requirements I have (just a blog and some small apps) I need to start looking at cheaper options.

I mean even with the price increases my little server that could that serves some basic self-hosted apps up for me still costs me less that a meal at a non-fast food restaurant. I'm sure I'm getting more utility out of that than 1 meal

How many places show a difference in their prices? How often to restaurants, stores, and other as a service companies doing that? I almost never see it. I wouldn't say they are doing something deliberate (in a negative sense). They are doing something pretty typical.

Restaurants and stores are single transactions, not ongoing subscription services.

DigitalOcean makes you dig for the price increase, which is pretty scummy. They tried to soften the blow with a new droplet which looks even worse. At the end of the day, 20% is a huge change.

They have a table of everything listed along with a new price for it. All they would need to add is a column showing the existing price. There is a 100% chance they have a spreadsheet internally passed around with that existing price column.

Do you really believe it was a not a deliberate choice to not show the side by side comparison?

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