Provider news · July 2022

What the providers shipped

DigitalOcean's July was all about catching up and repricing: HTTP/2 client support for Spaces is in, but it's no surprise it took them this long, and the NVMe rollout is spreading across eight regions—though not exactly a headline-maker. The big news? The dreaded price hike across the board, with the introduction of an even cheaper $4 Droplet that feels more like a price gimmick than a genuine market move. Meanwhile, the Kubernetes and DB pricing simplification is a step in the right direction, though you'd think they'd have gotten there sooner. Meanwhile, Linode stuck with the usual: another reserved IPv4 offering, because apparently that's still what folks need. Vultr, predictably, kept chugging out the GPU plans nobody actually asks for, at the $5 tier where it belongs.