Provider news · November 2025
What the providers shipped
November 2025 brought a mixed bag of updates across the VPS providers, with DigitalOcean making its usage-based backups GA for a cost that will likely vary with how much you mess up. They've also added support for more SSO identities like Auth0 and Keycloak, and extended their NFS to NYC2. AMD MI325X GPUs are now contract-only in NYC2, catering to those who fancy a bit of overkill. Meanwhile, Linode continues its incremental approach with a beta feature allowing metric exports and LKE security updates that should keep you safe and sound. UpCloud, ever the minimalist, just let you resize, attach, and detach storage without rebooting, which is nice for when you realize you need more space—or less. Vultr, predictably, is pushing its preemptible plans for those deep AMD pockets, adding the MI355X into the mix and ensuring you get the best bang for your buck if you're not using your GPU all the time.
DigitalOcean
- Nov 26 Usage-based backups GA — Variable-cost Droplet backup plans generally available.
- Nov 21 Teams identity-provider support — Auth0, authentik, JumpCloud, Keycloak added for SSO.
- Nov 21 Network File Storage in NYC2 — NFS expanded to the New York region.
- Nov 20 AMD MI325X GPUs in NYC2 — New GPU Droplet option available by contract.
- Nov 19 VPC NAT Gateways GA — Centralized outbound internet access generally available.
- Nov 19 Fedora 41 end of life — Image deprecated; available via API only.
- Nov 17 Container Registry multiple registries GA — Professional-plan multi-registry support generally available.
- Nov 5 PostgreSQL 18 available — New PostgreSQL version available for clusters.
- Nov 5 Control panel 12-hour logout timeout — Automatic session timeout with advance notice.
- Nov 4 App Platform environment management — App cloning and environment tagging.
- Nov 3 GPU-level observability — GPU metrics for AMD and NVIDIA Droplets.
- Nov 3 Ubuntu 25.10 Droplet image — New Ubuntu base image available.
Linode
- Nov 25 Export metrics to external tools (beta) — Beta feature to export metrics to third-party tools.
- Nov 17 LKE security updates — Security patches released for Linode Kubernetes Engine.
UpCloud
- Nov 10 Zero-downtime storage management — Storage volumes can be resized, attached, and detached on running servers without reboot.
Vultr
- Preemptible Plans for AMD MI355X and MI325X — Preemptible AMD MI355X/MI325X GPU instances for interruptible workloads at lower cost.
- AMD AINIC Network Plugin (ANP) for MI355X — Plugin preconfigures libraries for max performance on RoCE fabric for MI355X.
- VKE Upgrades Improvements — In-place upgrades for bare metal/imageless nodes plus upgrade-process stability fixes.
- Monthly OS & App Updates — Refreshed Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Rocky, CentOS, Arch, openSUSE, cPanel, GitLab, Plesk.
- New Operating Systems Available — OpenBSD 7.8 and Fedora 43 now deployable across all compute plans.
- Fix for Restoring Marketplace Snapshots — Marketplace app snapshots now restore correctly with all configs preserved.