Droplet Tagging and more

As developers ourselves, we know how important it is to stay organized when working on and managing applications. Tags are a simple and powerful way to help with:

• Deployments and infrastructure management/automation
• Managing resource ownership
• Monitoring and automation
• Logging and data retention policies

High Memory Droplets start with 16GB and scale up to 224GB of RAM with smaller ratios of local storage and CPU relative to standard Droplets. They are priced at $7.50 per-gigabyte of RAM per month. These Droplets are optimized for RAM-intensive workloads such as high-performance databases like MongoDB, in-memory caches like Redis or Memcache, or search indexes.


You can now create snapshots of block storage volumes! Volume snapshots act just in the same way as Droplet snapshots do — you can use them to make backups or maintain a certain state. Block storage volume snapshots are priced at a rate of $0.05/GB/month.


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