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Move from DigitalOcean to Valebyte: 2 GB for $7.59 instead of $12, dedicated IP and 10 Gbps unmetered, no bandwidth overage.
DigitalOcean's Basic Droplet starts at $6/mo for 1 GB / 1 vCPU shared. Equivalent specs cost $7.59/mo with 2 GB and dedicated vCPU at Valebyte.
Each Droplet has 1-9 TB/mo allowance, then $0.01/GB. A spike in traffic creates a surprise bill at the end of the month.
20% of Droplet price for automated backups, $0.06/GB-month for snapshots. Comparable infrastructure at Valebyte includes free snapshots.
Droplets cap at 2 Gbps egress (Premium AMD) or 1 Gbps. Valebyte VPS uses 10 Gbps unmetered shared port — relevant for video, file sync, scraping.
15 datacenters but only 1-2 each in APAC, none in LATAM or Africa. Valebyte's multi-provider catalog adds Mumbai, São Paulo, Johannesburg, Dubai.
Managed Postgres, Spaces, App Platform — once you adopt them, migration involves rewriting infrastructure. Self-host the same stack on a $7.59 VPS.
No marketing — actual differences. Including where they win.
Total time — 1 hour (small VPS) to 4 hours (TB-scale DB). Zero-downtime possible — steps 4-6.
DigitalOcean Console → Droplet → 'Snapshots' tab → 'Take Snapshot'. Cost: $0.06/GB until you delete it. For Volumes, snapshot separately.
DigitalOcean → Networking → Domains → click domain → 'More' → 'Export Zone File'. Most registrars import BIND format directly.
Do this 24h before cutover. The default DigitalOcean DNS TTL is 1800s — change all A/AAAA/CNAME records temporarily.
Match RAM and vCPU; disk you can grow. Pay in your preferred method (card, SEPA, USDT/BTC, MIR/SBP).
`rsync -avzP --delete /source/ root@new-server:/dest/` for files, configs, Docker volumes. Test with `--dry-run` first.
Postgres: `pg_dump -h db-cluster-do.com -U doadmin -d defaultdb | psql -h new-server -U postgres`. Same for MySQL with `mysqldump`. ARM-compatible if your new VPS is ARM.
`s3cmd sync s3://your-space/ s3://new-bucket/` if using Backblaze B2. Or self-host MinIO on your VPS for full S3 compatibility.
Same `docker-compose.yml` works (Ubuntu/Debian/AlmaLinux on Valebyte). If you used App Platform, deploy as Docker container or systemd service.
DigitalOcean Cloud Firewalls → list rules → recreate via `ufw` or `nftables`. Test all inbound services with `nmap` from outside.
Wait for old TTL to expire (5 min if you lowered earlier). Watch traffic with `tcpdump` to confirm requests are arriving.
Don't power off the Droplet immediately. Watch error rates, latency, customer reports. If something breaks — flip DNS back instantly.
Confirm nothing references old IPs (cron jobs, webhooks, hardcoded configs in third-party services). Then destroy via Console or doctl.
All plans: 10 Gbps, dedicated IP, full root, KVM console
10 Gbps unmetered, multi-region, flexible payment (card, SEPA, crypto, MIR). VPS in 30 seconds.