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That's what I call a misleading title, my droplet is going up 20% with this news.

Sad, my hardware hasn't changed in 4 years, why is it suddenly more expensive to host? Hardware costs are always dropping, there's no reason for this other than greed.

I guess this is another "inflation" thing where companies demand higher profits without changes in services.

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> Hardware costs are always dropping, there's no reason for this other than greed.

They're not though, there's a load of world happenings currently resulting in chipset shortages and increased energy pricing etc in many parts of the world.

Maybe, but that doesn't impact existing hardware. So unless this upgrade includes things like newer CPUs or more ram/disk for a droplet that doesn't apply, and as far as I can tell, the hardware I started on 4 years ago is the same. At least they've not advertised any new CPUs or increased disk or ram.

Increased energy prices absolutely impacts current hardware, especially given older hardware tends to be more energy intensive.

So the $5 I was paying for a droplet was all for electricity? DO doesn't have a plan to recoup capex?

You're not buying a box from Digital Ocean, you're purchasing a managed service. Staff costs can and do increase independently of hardware costs.

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