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user5994461 ◴[] No.24700185[source]
I am so glad to see this. I was looking to deploy an app and the choice is either Heroku or manage your own server which I don't want to do.

Heroku gives instant deployment for the most common types of apps (python/java/ruby). It's PaaS done right, it's fantastic. You should really have a look if you're not aware of it, it's only $7 for a starter app.

Problem is, scaling up is about $50 per gigabyte of memory which makes it a dead end for anything non trivial. You're forced to go to digital ocean / Linode / OVH instead to have something affordable.

That leaves Digital Ocean as the only alternative (don't trust Linode) and it sucks because it only gives me a server to manage. I don't want to manage a server I want to run a (python) application. It's 2020 this sort of things should auto deploy from GitHub without bothering me to manage an operating system.

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NOGDP ◴[] No.24703398[source]
The digital ocean volume pricing of $1/10GB per month seems very steep... I can literally buy fresh SSDs every month for that money. The container pricing is reasonable though.
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TylerE ◴[] No.24704951[source]
You're reading it wrong.

For $5/month you can get 250GB of storage with 1TB outgoing.

Additional is $1/100GB and $10/TB

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NOGDP ◴[] No.24705679[source]
I must be missing something: https://i.imgur.com/3PNqSt5.png

Edit: You're talking about spaces[1], I'm talking about volumes[2].

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/

[2] https://www.digitalocean.com/products/block-storage/

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1. gen220 ◴[] No.24783139[source]
In digital ocean, I believe you get a volume for free with your $5/month instance/droplet (it's not added separately, which differs from most other cloud providers).

The screenshot you shared is attempting to add additional volumes to a droplet. See the pricing for droplets, it includes 25GB of SSD and 1TB of transfer.

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#basic-droplets