Novos preços do Digital Ocean! (Spoiler: $5 por um droplet de 1GB)

A Digital Ocean fez algumas grandes mudanças hoje! Confira a nova lista de preços.

Primeiro, o droplet de 1 GB agora custa apenas US$ 5/mês!

Além disso, há uma notícia muito boa para quem possui sites de alto volume: as ofertas de CPU rápida agora possuem quantidades razoáveis de espaço em SSD.

Também são novos os “droplets flexíveis”, que facilitam a troca entre diferentes configurações para ver qual é o impacto de ter mais RAM ou mais CPUs:

Se você tem um droplet de 1 GB, provavelmente desejará desligá-lo, migrar para o novo droplet de 2 GB e executar novamente o discourse-setup para aproveitar a memória adicional.

A migração do antigo droplet de 1 GB por US$ 10/mês para o novo de US$ 5 é mais complicada, pois há menos espaço em disco, então não é possível fazer apenas uma alteração simples. Para isso, um caminho seguro seria criar o novo droplet, copiar seu antigo app.yml, reconstruir, fazer backup e restaurar seu site no novo droplet, apontando para o novo site.

I want to compare it with ramnode


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.

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

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

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

Source:

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.

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.

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?

2/2 seems like the best choice there.

I’m currently using this package from them with Discourse Version v2.0.0.beta2 +72 / 2.0.0.beta2
DOpackage

And experiencing high memory usage with only me on Discourse:
memoryUsageDiscourse

Any advice on troubleshooting this?

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

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.

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

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.

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

And where do you get that deal?

serverz.pro is the place

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.

Exceto que todos agora estão aumentando os preços, incluindo a DO.

Barato é relativo. O mínimo de droplet de facto custará pelo menos 18 USD, mas 24 USD é uma escolha mais realista. Não estamos mais no nível de 72 USD por ano, mas sim de 216 a 288 por ano. E o S3 ou similar vem por cima disso, facilmente mais de 100 por ano.

E se um administrador pobre quiser usar IA? Estamos rapidamente no nível de 100 USD por mês; 1200 USD por ano.

Estamos nesse ponto muito, muito longe dos 5 ou 6 dólares por mês :wink:

Mas o ponto principal é que, ao contrário do que este tópico disse… o quê… 5 anos atrás, os preços não estão ficando mais baratos, mas sim aumentando.

Então esse é o motivo pelo qual tantos script kiddies usam Hetzner :rofl: