Kicking Off the New Year with New Droplet Plans

TL;DR: They doubled the RAM and increased the SSD storage in all their plans, and added a flexible $15&#x2F;month plan, and a $240&#x2F;month and $960&#x2F;month plans.<p>If you already had an account at DO you have to resize the droplet yourself. It won&#x27;t be done automatically &quot;In order to avoid impact on current applications&quot;.

If we consider the smallest droplet size, Digital Ocean now offers 1 GB RAM&#x2F;25 GB SSD for $5&#x2F;mo as opposed to 512 GB RAM&#x2F;20 GB SSD that it used to offer earlier at the same price.<p>Linode, however, has been providing a 1 GB RAM&#x2F;20 GB SSD plan for $5&#x2F;mo for about a year now.<p>The new Digital Ocean plans puts its pricing at par with that of Linode. In fact, Digital Ocean is a little bit cheaper than Linode now if you care about the additional 5 GB SSD storage.

This seems like a way to get customers to self-migrate droplets off of hypervisors vulnerable to meltdown&#x2F;spectre

I found this interesting: &quot;Coming Soon: Per-Second Billing&quot;<p>Spinning up instances for short tasks could be beneficial.

Good news. Seems they have removed &quot;high-memory droplets&quot;