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		jldugger on Jan 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DigitalOcean is laying off staff > Based on having run a similar (now mostly defunct) company in the past, I would guess that 80% of their customers are on the $5/mo plan. I wonder if the Always Free tiers of GCP / OCI have helped DO in this regard. You can get a lot of free VMs these days, so maybe other cheapasses like myself have left the DO / Linode / etc platforms.

ses1984 on Jan 17, 2020 [–]

I personally have canceled a linode instance and replaced it with GCP free tier vm about a year ago.

I feel like GCP/AWS free tier have probably hurt the $5/mo hosting business a lot.

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