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Yeah, certainly not impossible, just a bit more work on the backend logic than might be assumed in this particular case. Good things coming on this front though, not using any excuses, just priorities and dev time
(Take my words with a grain of salt in that I'm not involved in that kind of development, nor technically able to make promises for anyone who is, but you've seen that we're working hard on improvements lately and as noted in the pricing blog post, billing related improvements are on the list)
Someone on Twitter did some tests on the new offerings and compared them.
And it seems like @vmhaus won the battle
Based on time to compile PHP at a single point in time. I guess so.
Yep
This really is an odd metric to use.. @angstrom
Honestly, I couldn't figure out what those guys were talking about!
Not to the person carrying out the tests I guess. What else would he in particular use to carry out a test. His version of the usual LET speed test that is as irrelevant.
But still, even Rasmus must realise it's hardly a task you are going to carry out so often that it will impact a PHP application. I will put it down to he was bored and wanted something to do...
As a test, I suggest trying to compile gcc49 instead. :-)
No compilation speed matters if you do compile stuff frequently. Centmin Mod compiles Nginx and PHP-FPM to leverage better performance via compile flags/choice of compilers and via Profile Guided Optimisations in PHP 7. So you generally want servers that can compile faster to obtain those faster built binaries https://community.centminmod.com/threads/how-to-boost-centmin-mod-lemp-stack-performance.13776/ ^_^
Wow. Flashbacks to PGCC.
though these days AMD EPYC is in the running too
Hence, why my Centmin Mod has support for GCC 4.8, 5.3, 6.3, 7.2, 8.0 and Clang 3.4/4/5 and 6 so you can pick and choose a pairing with particular cpu the server has
there are many user use DO github coupon to get $50 credit and create many VPS for mining
Burn forever in a fire of devilsemen.
Will neither confirm nor deny.
But can confirm that if true... will deny something
If the competition continues, DO will enter Low End Market.
Probably a bad way to compare, but provides some amount of comparison, none the less.
Interesting to see how cloudways dealt with the DO changes. When they started, they offered the cheapest droplet for $5. They bumped this to $7 last year I believe. I just got an email where they say they are "pleased to announce that we have passed on the savings to you."
They now charge $10 (was $7) for the cheapest $5 droplet and $22 (was $17) for the $10 droplet. Raise prices if you want, but don't try to pass it off as a price drop, asshats.
I think this market has just been disrupted by Hetzner.
@willie not so sure there. Apart from being a little cheaper why would DigitalOcean feel pressure from a low price OpenVZ offer with less features?
Maybe some migration from the LEB market, but I doubt that's a big part of DigitalOceans market anyway.
What?
Where did you get OpenVZ from?
Hetzner's cloud range is KVM, no idea why anyone would think it's OpenVZ.
Each offer has their own benefits, I won't be leaving DO for Hetzner but I will be leaving a few others in the LET market for sure.
Remember also that for that little cheaper you get 20TB traffic alone compared to 1TB with DO at the lowest point. Twice the ram and so on.
Now for some things, I will stick with DO and pay a bit more for less resource however you can't dismiss the full offering from Hetzner as 'a little cheaper'.
1) it's KVM;
2) it's not "a little" cheaper, it's more like 4x cheaper comparing straight across.
Chasing the lowest cost is something that some people do, it's not a bad thing or something to be thought less of, but it's still not something everyone does
Xvmlabs, the original market shakeup, everyone over $2/year is overpriced. Always has been, always will be cheaper options than everyone but the provider at the absolute bottom of the cost chain.
comforting words only among competitors ;P
If you say so
In fact, a lot of DO users are doing precisely that, using DO to escape the high cost of AWS. They are not cost insensitive. So I think DO should take this development seriously.
Actually, a lot also moved from Linode to DO for the price benefit when their cheapest price point was $20. Getting a Droplet for $5 and SSD was a no-brainer for many.