DigitalOcean 今天做出了重大调整！查看新的 价格表。
首先，1 GB 的 Droplet 现在仅需每月 5 美元！
此外，对于拥有高流量网站的用户来说，还有一个好消息：高性能 CPU 方案现在配备了合理数量的 SSD 存储空间。
新增的“灵活 Droplet”让您能够轻松在不同配置之间切换，以观察增加内存或 CPU 数量带来的差异：
如果您当前使用的是 1 GB Droplet，很可能需要关闭实例，切换到新的 2 GB Droplet，并重新运行 discourse-setup 以充分利用额外的内存。
从旧的每月 10 美元的 1 GB Droplet 降级到新的每月 5 美元的 Droplet 则更为复杂，因为新方案的磁盘空间较小，无法直接切换。安全的做法是：创建新的 Droplet，复制旧的 app.yml 文件，重新构建，备份并还原您的网站到新实例，然后将域名指向新站点。
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.
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
And experiencing high memory usage with only me on Discourse:
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? 
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
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.
但现在包括 DO 在内的所有人都提高了价格。
便宜是相对的。事实上，最低的液滴至少需要 18 美元，但 24 美元是更现实的选择。我们不再处于每年 72 美元的水平，而是每年 216-288 美元。S3 或类似的费用会在此基础上增加，每年轻松超过 100 美元。
如果一个可怜的管理员想使用人工智能怎么办？我们很快就会达到每月 100 美元的水平；每年 1200 美元。
我们离每月 5 或 6 美元已经非常非常遥远了 
但关键是，与这个话题所说的相反……什么……五年前，价格并没有变得更便宜，而是越来越贵。
所以很多脚本小子都使用 Hetzner 是这个原因 
