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I'm really glad we've started to move to another cloud (OVH). DigitalOcean has been upping their prices consistently for years now. It used to be an affordable, good looking, easy to use cloud. Now it's just good looking and easy to use.

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Inflation is quite high.

Not for cloud services. Cloud prices have been deflationary for decades. And this makes sense as software has a near zero marginal cost and efficiencies in hardware and data center management are occurring faster than “normal” inflation.

But the prices for everything else that the company's owners and employees consume are rising.

That’s true but that’s what I meant by software has near zero marginal cost. Employees scale massively with cloud providers.

I mean a single sysadmin can automate and manage a million vms. So if the admin’s salary goes up 10% then that’s almost nothing in terms of costs for customers.

This is different from other brick and mortar businesses where the price of corn goes up 10% so the price of potato chips goes up 10%.

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