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by lgl 74 days ago
Long are the days of DO being a super hoster imho. Hetzner and many other "cheap" clouds ate their breakfast and their reaction was pretty much zero.

Still an awesome service and platform.. but no longer worth it price wise as it once was. Same with Vultr..

I guess at some point all investors just pressure these companies into price matching AWS and other pay-for-every-single-thing-ever companies.

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Vultr is pretty cool, but I was paying $10/mo for a 2 v-cores/2gb/55gb. I got a 'root server' with netcup and I'm now paying $11/mo for 4 cores/8gb/256gb nvm-e. Unfortunately the placement isn't what I hoped as it's in Virginia. I would've liked Singapore but the cost would be twice as much.
I once saw Vultr as a cheaper DigitalOcean, but now they're super-expensive, too.

For the same money, I get 10x of RAM, storage and CPU with Hetzner or OVH.

They also have the extremely annoying practice where if you owe them as little as $3, they still automatically recharge your account $100.