I signed up for DO because they were $5/mo and at the time Linode was $20. Twenty bucks is fine for production but for hobbyist mucking about, which I would classify my usage as, it's a bit steep. I image many users are in a similar situation.
But you're sharing the 1Gb/s link with who knows how many $5 droplets - resulting in unpredictable IO. Linode network IO is dedicated and scalable to 10 Gb/s. DO is shared and capped at 1 Gb/s - even on the largest droplet.
Thanks for bringing this up, this is part of why we closed such a large debt round so that we could really focus on the next evolution of the hardware that we use. There are a lot of things in the works for that and we will be really excited to share them.
Absolutely. I don't need $10 droplets for all of my internal servers, so the cost adds up significantly. I run a cluster of $5 droplets as well as a few large units, and I'm sure many people have similar use cases.
