In case some DO team member is reading this old thread, I just posted the following message on the official suggestion thread.
I haven’t had the time to test and compare yet, but there is a now a similar VPS provider with roughly the same price as DO.
Customer service and panel functionalities are eons from being as we have with DO, though.
As most of my projects target Brazilian users, latency is important. I always turned a blind eye because DO hadn’t no real competitors here, but I am seriously considering migrating out, as hurtful as it is, and I surely am not the only one thinking about it. This sort of “loyalty” in business can only go so far.
Also, somehow Locaweb managed to provide this kind of service with a really competitive price. It proves it is not impossible. Maybe DO should take advantage of our economy crisis and make an investment, even because the crisis is not hitting I.T. so hard as it is hitting other fields.
Nice!!!!! perfect!
Por favor cobrem em reais , pois essa é uma grande dificuldade, pagar em dólar, infelizmente nosso páis sofre com a moeda fraca… o dolar tem grandes variações em um pequeno espaço de tempo.
De qualquer forma vim para o Brasil seria ótimo!
Pagamento em reais…pfv!
tks
Se cobrarem em reais , vao fixar a indexacao em dolar, ou seja, o dolar variou pra cima ou para baixo, provavelmente vao imbutir essa diferenca no preco. Datacenter no Brazil iria encarecer mais ainda devido aos impostos locais.. O mesmo ocorreu com a Amazon.
If they start to charge you in BRL probably they gonna use dollar as currency index due our strong currency exchange variation. That means the BRL price will be higher than dollars anyways + local tax. Amazon opened a datacenter in Brazil and due local regulation and tax the BRL prices is higher as well.
Please, come to Brazil!
We need more IaaS and PaaS clouds here. We suffer with a loooong ping (300ms+) and it makes some of us to migrate our services to another nearest and EXPENSIVE cloud.
This is my letter for Santa this year.