Is DigitalOcean's Dedicated 1GB the best deal?

Half the RAM but same vCPU, 500GB transfer (2.5x DigitalOcean's allowance), and 99.9% SLA beats Heroku's 99.5%, with no sleep penalty.

Caveat: Data transfer overage rates vary by region ($0.09-$0.132/GB) and are higher than DigitalOcean's $0.01/GB if you exceed 500GB.

512MB RAM at $7/mo with 99.95% SLA; bandwidth overage is ~$0.15/GB, and persistent disk storage is billed separately at $0.25/GB/month.

Caveat: Fractional 0.5 vCPU (shared), and exact bandwidth allowance and overage rate are not clearly published; instances billed by the second, so partial-month charges apply if you scale down.

Cheapest option at $5/mo flat for 512MB RAM and covers 1000 shared hours per account.

Caveat: Personal accounts only (not available to Team/Enterprise), sleeps after 30 min inactivity, 99.5% SLA on Postgres Essential, and Postgres add-on overages can force unplanned tier upgrades; Eco dynos are not suitable for production workloads.

1.75GB RAM (more than DigitalOcean) with dedicated compute, no autoscale, and 99.99% SLA; outbound bandwidth free up to 100GB/month.

Caveat: No autoscaling, Windows VMs carry a license surcharge, and outbound bandwidth is billed above 100GB/month on a tiered scale; pricing figure is not independently re-confirmed this session.

2GB RAM and 1 vCPU with 99.9% SLA, but usage-based billing means you pay for actual pod runtime; egress bandwidth at $0.10/GB and build time at $0.0003333/sec.

Caveat: More expensive than DigitalOcean ($40 vs $34), overage per extra visits billed per Kinsta's schedule (not itemized), and premium staging environment add-ons are $20/month each; disk space add-ons sold in 10GB increments at $10/month.