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How is Netcup so cheap?
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The price difference is daylight robbery!
Does that also mean that their CPU might be better than yours?
We use AMD Epyc 7313 I wouldn’t know what’s used at Digital - perhaps Digital Ocean’s Customer can provide a like for like benchmark :-).
The difference usually comes because DigitalOcean has certain features like hourly billing, snapshots, images, floating IP addresses, load balancers, databases, object storage, and more, which is all in one platform. Most providers here are prepaid (i.e. 1 month) and don’t have many of these features.
If you just need a simple Linux server and don’t need most of the features I’ve listed above (which most here don’t), then pretty much any prepaid provider on LET will beat DigitalOcean pricing.
DigitalOcean is less likely to deadpool and doesn't have minimum IQ requirements for customers. There's definitely some benefits depending on the use case.
Heres a Geekbench of the DO server mentioned by @malcommerlyn
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
|
Single Core | 629
Multi Core | 1960
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/4030195
Thanks @Razza !
Below is the 8 GB package in our New York AMD Epyc Zone @malcommerlyn compared:
Dam that some fast cpu, the pricing of VM plans look good if that the level of CPU performance I would consider the VPS.4 plan too bad free DA license isn't a thing nowadays, so will just keep my InceptionHosting E-2278G based VM it got sometime ago with a free DA license.
I would be really surprised if Digital Ocean is still in business on Jan 1, 2025
— one year from now —
Is that supposed to be a joke?
No, just my opinion based on how that company has been doing in recent times.
In what ways has DO been doing so negatively in recent times?
I've got some with GreenCloudVPS that are cheaper, albeit with less disk space. For example:
And a few with HostHatch, e.g.
For not much more than that Netcup one ($550/3 years, ~$183.33/year, $15.27/month), I picked up a new one with HostHatch during Black Friday sales with 48GB RAM and 525GB NVMe that I'm going to consolidate some of my smaller ones onto.
The big providers like DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, etc spend more on advertising, have more staff, more offices, higher profit margins, etc than the smaller providers. DigitalOcean in particular is a publicly traded company (so they have to show revenue growth year-over-year) and spend money on things like billboard ads and TV ads.
were you using shared vps or rootservers on netcup?
The latter
They are $1.6bn in debt when other big clouds (not that all of the big ones haven't been debt financed) are starting to become profitable.
Their ARR is significantly less than many others such as Google who hit $10bn.
They are limited in locations.
They have lost market share to competitors.