New Digital Ocean Pricing (2024)

DigitalOcean offers a variety of pricing plans to cater to the different needs and requirements of software developers.

Their plans are typically categorized based on the amount of resources (CPU, RAM, storage) allocated to the virtual machines (droplets) and additional features or services included.

The company recently announced details of new Droplet pricing to deliver more memory, compute power, and flexibility for customers at every price point. The new pricing is part of their 2022 roadmap, which they unveiled last year in Jan.

New Digital Ocean Pricing Plan

Here is the new Digital Ocean Pricing Plan 2022

Source: Digital Ocean

Taking advantage of the new plans will be easier for new users and new droplets treated on Digital Ocean. What about the existing droplets? Several users have asked this question.

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Well, the answer is simple:

I had about 20 droplets, each running on the $20 monthly plan, which totals about $400 a month. This was straining my budget, and I was looking for alternative options. Last month I began combining websites on single Droplets to save money. But I couldn’t compromise on performance for the money.

So with Digital Ocean’s new plans, any user will jump for more Droplet power at the same price but not me. I maintain the same Droplet power at a lower price.

How to Use New Digital Ocean Plans on Existing Droplets

You must resize the droplet in the following steps to use the new Digital Ocean plans.

1. Log onto Digital Ocean
2. SSH to your droplet one after another
3. Power it down (Sudo shutdown now for Ubuntu)
4. Go to Digital Ocean Dashboard and select your droplet
5. Choose Resize Droplet
6. Select the equivalent of what you were using or lower (If you want to, you can go higher). If your droplet was created in the last year, you can go as low as $5 a month.
7. Wait for the resize to complete and reboot your droplet.

Easy 🙂

Now you can enjoy more power at either the same or a reduced price. It is a win-win situation for you, the Developer, or Business Person.