Ask HN: Why do $5 VPS offerings still have the same specs as 10 years ago?

6 points by smivan 6y ago ↗ HN

2012: Digital Ocean (or equivalent) offered VPS's with 1gb RAM and 20gb disk for $5

2020: $5 still gets you at most 1 vCPU, 1gb RAM, and 20-50gb SSD.

Why is there no price innovation happening? Cloud offerings seem to be static, despite cost reductions and other progress.

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The $5 droplet used to be 512MB of RAM not 1GB AFAIK

aritmo 6y ago ↗

They do not have the same specs. They have slightly reduced specs.

You can no longer get a $5 VPS with 50GB SSD, 2GB RAM, and two vCPUs.

smivan 6y ago ↗

So it's even worse. What's up with the trend going in the wrong direction?