[dan1234]

According to the ticket I got, the VPSes are going up 20% but the backup price isn't changing, so your new bill will be around $696/mo, an increase of $1,152/yr.

The main alternatives in the budget cloud space are Digital Ocean, Vultr, OvH etc - they're all similarly priced for the equivalent servers, but I wouldn't be surprised if they all start increasing their prices to match - DO especially as they recently laid off a load of employees.

[ethicalsmacker]

Thanks-- at least they are not increasing the backup costs.

[wiredfool]

Which is good, because their backups for large servers are troublesome.

(short answer, too many inodes are bad. too many is low single digit millions.)