back to article Blocks appear in DigitalOcean's Droplets

Web compute server hoster DigitalOcean is adding block storage to its cloud-based Droplet servers. Digital Ocean offers Droplet virtual servers in the cloud for $5/month to $80/month depending on their configuration. The entry-level is 512MB RAM, 1 CPU, 20GB SSD and1TB transfer. At the $80 level you get 8GB, 4 CPUs, an 80GB …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Facepalm

    Limited

    Block Storage volumes can scale from 1GB to 16GB

    Not really what I was looking for...

    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Limited

      Facepalm for whoever made that typo. I see it's been corrected to 16 terabytes max. That's more like it.

      I'll withhold judgement until I've actually tried it. Hopefully it's not as half-baked as their Floating IPs...

  2. Jamie Jones Silver badge

    Ad

    This article sounds like an advertisment.

    Is it mainly a cut n' paste job from a press release?

  3. Bronek Kozicki

    This is useful

    The resizing model at DigitalOcean works like this : you can either upgrade your instance permanently which also (RAM , vCPU and transfer limit change aside) increases its storage in 10GB steps (smallest instance is 20GB then 30GB etc), or you can upgrade other parameters (listed above RAM, vCPU and transfer) leaving storage unchanged, which will allow you to downgrade later (so called flexible model). The addition of block storage means that you can upgrade in flexible manner and still extend your storage, simply by buying extra device. Which you can release later if you no longer need it, alongside with downgrading your instance. Neat.

  4. shahroznawaz
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    Much Needed Feature

    Well, This is indeed nice feature to add external storage with this feature. But being a non-Linux guy this would be more pain for you to add it. PAAS providers like Cloudways providing DigitalOcean Servers with Nice UI for vertical scaling to add block storage.

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