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by rschmitty 4613 days ago
This isnt EC2 but I'd imagine they have the same limits with pricing vs hardware vs options

http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...

"Unfortunately given how physical resources are segmented if we gave users the ability to arbitrarily select CPU, RAM, or HDD independent of each other they would actually end up paying more for this 'custom' plan than using one of the pre-defined plans.

As I'm sure you are a well aware the resources are not equal and are not priced equally, it's cheaper to get more disk, than to get more RAM, which is why we've done our best to cut it up into units and provide the best cost savings to our customers."