Kicking Off the New Year with New Droplet Plans

TL;DR: They doubled the RAM and increased the SSD storage in all their plans, and added a flexible $15/month plan, and a $240/month and $960/month plans.

If you already had an account at DO you have to resize the droplet yourself. It won't be done automatically "In order to avoid impact on current applications".

If we consider the smallest droplet size, Digital Ocean now offers 1 GB RAM/25 GB SSD for $5/mo as opposed to 512 GB RAM/20 GB SSD that it used to offer earlier at the same price.

Linode, however, has been providing a 1 GB RAM/20 GB SSD plan for $5/mo for about a year now.

The new Digital Ocean plans puts its pricing at par with that of Linode. In fact, Digital Ocean is a little bit cheaper than Linode now if you care about the additional 5 GB SSD storage.

This seems like a way to get customers to self-migrate droplets off of hypervisors vulnerable to meltdown/spectre

I found this interesting: "Coming Soon: Per-Second Billing"

Spinning up instances for short tasks could be beneficial.

Good news. Seems they have removed "high-memory droplets"