[Sysadmin] new digitalocean droplet plans

[Dean Mah]

Nice! Thanks for keeping up on this.

Dean


On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 4:28 PM, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
> hey kids,
>
> digitalocean (who we use for our two virtual machines, and who I use
> for beo) have released new droplet plans.  In general, you can get
> double (some of) the resources for the same money, or the same
> resources for half.  Nice!
>
> I've resized postel (the SGP nameserver) from the old $5/mo 512MB 1CPU
> droplet to the new $5/mo 1GB 1CPU droplet, and cerf (the NYC mailing
> list / website server) from the old $20/mo 2GB 1CPU droplet to the new
> $10/mo 2GB 1CPU droplet.
>
> So for postel, we're getting double the RAM for the same price
> (handy), and for cerf, we're getting the same spec for half the price
> (woot).  Unfortunately, I couldn't downsize taylor, so I'm getting
> double the RAM for the same price (shazaaaaam!).
>
> We've virtually exhausted our $250 credit that DO gracefully gave to
> us last year, so tis time to start paying for things again.  But at
> least it's cheaper now (fifteen bucks a month) ;)
>
> -n
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> so, are we gonna get this vote on for
> the EvoltSysadmin mascot or what?