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I mean, $5 -> $6/mo is technically a 20% increase, but it's only because it's such a small amount to begin with.

I haven't checked their pricing in a while but I think the $5/mo droplet used to be 512m but is now 1G ram, right?

It sounds like there's also a $4/mo smaller droplet with 512m ram.

The $5 was 1G ram previously. I don't think there was a 512 option

They used to have a 512M droplet for $5. After a few years they upped it to 1G, and you could upgrade for free.

I actually got slightly burned when they did that update. I was doing deployments by "slug" (their term) and the old slug went up to $10/month when they created the new 1GB $5 droplet option. Now my system double checks the price before deploying a droplet.

gotcha, I've only been with them for 2 years so it's always been 1G for me

It was 512M before, then they doubled the specs of every droplet a few years ago.

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