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Provider news · June 2025

What the providers shipped

June 2025 was a busy month for the VPS providers, though it was mostly about overdue features and unnecessary GPU overkill. DigitalOcean finally made Ubuntu 20.04 end-of-life as expected, but also had more fluff with the GA of DOKS routing agent, and AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs that will probably just gather dust at the entry level. Linode rolled out the long-awaited enterprise Kubernetes offering and some VPC changes, while UpCloud launched its free "Essentials" plan — which is like getting a free lunch that's almost all the tools you need but without any of the data transfer. Meanwhile, Vultr continued to overdo the GPU plans and managed Kafka, adding little but not much to the toolbox for developers.

DigitalOcean

  • Jun 30 Ubuntu 20.04 end of life — Reached end-of-life status.
  • Jun 30 DOKS routing agent GA — Routing agent generally available.
  • Jun 30 App Platform liveness probes GA — Auto-restart on failed health check, generally available.
  • Jun 30 Teams custom roles GA — Custom team roles generally available.
  • Jun 27 App Platform subdomain routing & archiving GA — Subdomain routing and app archive/restore generally available.
  • Jun 25 BYOIP public preview — Bring your own IPv4 address blocks (preview).
  • Jun 19 DOKS networking default change — Non-VPC-native restored as default for new 1.33+ clusters via API/doctl.
  • Jun 17 Reserved IPv6 GA — Static public IPv6 addresses assignable to Droplets.
  • Jun 17 Partner Network Connect HA — High-availability redundant partner attachments.
  • Jun 16 DOKS Gateway API & NLB defaults — Gateway API enabled by default; NLB becomes default LB; VPC-native default.
  • Jun 12 AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs — Available for GPU Droplets and DOKS in single and 8-GPU configs.
  • Jun 11 Container Registry multiple registries — Professional plan can create up to 10 registries across regions.
  • Jun 10 Spaces access logs GA — Spaces access logs generally available.

Linode

  • Jun 30 NodeBalancers now supports backend Linodes in VPCs — NodeBalancers can now target backend Linodes inside VPCs.
  • Jun 25 LKE updates — Additional enhancements to the Kubernetes Engine platform.
  • Jun 18 LKE Enterprise updates — Improvements delivered for the enterprise Kubernetes offering.
  • Jun 5 LKE Enterprise launched (in limited availability) — Enterprise-grade Kubernetes service launches in limited availability.

UpCloud

  • Jun 2 Introducing UpCloud Essentials — Free tools: Load Balancer, K8s control plane, NAT/VPN Gateway, and zero data transfer fees.

Vultr

  • Vultr Managed Apache Kafka Improvements — New Schema Registry features and configurable settings to fine-tune Kafka for consistency and performance.
  • Vultr Block Storage Improvements — Attach multiple devices more reliably.
  • New OS releases — Alpine Linux 3.22, Rocky Linux 10, and AlmaLinux 10 now available.
  • GPU Price-to-Performance Calculator — Compare benchmarked inference performance across GPUs for popular open-source LLMs.
  • Canada Tax Info on Invoices — Invoices now reflect accurate regional tax calculations for Canadian customers.
  • API Performance Upgrades — List/get operations for Reserved IPs and VPS instances are now faster and more efficient.

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