Nuovi prezzi Digital Ocean! (Spoiler: $5 per un droplet da 1GB)

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Digital Ocean ha apportato oggi alcuni grandi cambiamenti! Consultate la nuova lista prezzi.

Innanzitutto, il droplet da 1 GB costa ora solo 5 $ al mese!

Inoltre, ottime notizie per chi gestisce siti ad alto traffico: le offerte CPU veloci ora includono quantità ragionevoli di spazio SSD.

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Novità anche i “droplet flessibili”, che facilitano il passaggio tra diverse configurazioni per valutare l’impatto di più RAM o di più CPU:

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Se disponete di un droplet da 1 GB, probabilmente vorrete arrestarlo, passare al nuovo droplet da 2 GB ed eseguire nuovamente discourse-setup per sfruttare la memoria aggiuntiva.

Il downgrade dal vecchio droplet da 1 GB da 10 al mese al nuovo da 5 è più complesso a causa della minore capacità del disco, quindi non è possibile effettuare semplicemente una modifica. Per farlo, un percorso sicuro consiste nel creare il nuovo droplet, copiare il vecchio app.yml, ricostruire, eseguire il backup e ripristinare il sito sul nuovo droplet, quindi reindirizzare al nuovo sito.

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I want to compare it with ramnode

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And I’m wondering how different is 1 Core vs 2 Core, while both have 1G RAM?

And Linode is a great idea with the same price while Linode have the location of Japan, Singapore which are great for Asian users; UK,DE for European users, and US for American Users.

While digitalocean only have droplets located in US._Sorry, I get this info from another post, I should check again Well Digitalocean also have multiple locations.

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This is not correct they have 10-12 data centers all over the world.

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Also Digital Ocean is going to be providing “per-second billing” soon.

I’m not exactly sure about the benefits of this.

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This way if you need an instance for a few hours, you are only billed for a few hours rather than a whole day. Or even 15 minutes.

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For me the most important feature to come is true private networking. This means for example that if you are running the database in a separate vm the communication goes through a isolated network. Right now in DigitalOcean the internal networking is shared.

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No Doubt, I am very happy with this step. DigitalOcean has taken a great step by providing their services in cheaper rates. DO has one of the most affordable infrastructures with good quality of service. It is beneficial for both developers and startups because they can now get a production server in just $5, Even if they don’t know how to manage the servers, They can head to Cloudways, As they have also reduced the pricing on DigitalOcean server.

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Exploring the $15 options for a moderately small community (up to 5k people, 500 new messages per day, 500k visits per month), the 2 vCPUs with 2GB RAM option looks better than the others two taking into account the specifics of the Discourse application?

I.e., a) 1GB is too little of memory; b) 3GB RAM vs 2GB RAM won’t make too much of a difference; you’ll have a ~2GB swap; and c) 2 vCPUs is definitely better than 1 vCPUs taking into account multitasking built into Discourse.

Do my arguments look right?

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2/2 seems like the best choice there.

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I’m currently using this package from them with Discourse Version v2.0.0.beta2 +72 / 2.0.0.beta2
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And experiencing high memory usage with only me on Discourse:
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Any advice on troubleshooting this?

Edit: Upgraded to 4GB Memory and added a 2GB swap file. Memory usage is still around 50% though

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Is there any problem with this high memory usage? :slight_smile:

Free memory is wasted memory – the setup script intentionally tunes Discourse and Postgres to use the available memory to speed up request processing.

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Thanks for your reply! I’ll just keep an eye on it

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We already knew the lower prices were here, but nice to see it broken out in this way, and you do get a choice at $15/month of 1 more CPUs, or 50% more RAM.

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DO is really overpriced and not worth it imo, i have an 8 core server, 6GB ram, 185GB HDD and 1Gbps (not full duplex) for just 13.8 USD

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And where do you get that deal?

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serverz.pro is the place

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Hmm. THeir 1GB-$5/month offering isn’t that different from Digital Ocean’s, albeit serverz.pro offers 4 cores. The $15/month plan does look appealing, though, especially for those in Europe.

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Tranne che tutti stanno aumentando i prezzi, incluso DO.

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Il termine “economico” è relativo. Il droplet minimo de facto costerà almeno 18 USD, ma 24 USD è una scelta più realistica. Non siamo più al livello di 72 USD all’anno, ma tra 216 e 288 all’anno. E S3 o simili si aggiungono a questo, facilmente oltre 100 all’anno.

E se un admin squattrinato volesse usare l’IA? Raggiungiamo rapidamente il livello di 100 USD al mese; 1200 USD all’anno.

Siamo a questo punto davvero molto, molto lontani da 5 o 6 dollari al mese :wink:

Ma il punto principale è che, al contrario di quanto affermato in questo topic… cosa… 5 anni fa, i prezzi non stanno diventando più economici, ma stanno aumentando.

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Quindi questo è il motivo per cui tanti script kiddie usano Hetzner :rofl: