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$250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by tshtf »

Enjoy your free service, but I would avoid paying for Digital Ocean for any serious project.

No custom kernel support

1. Digital Ocean does not allow you to run your own kernel natively.

2. Digital Ocean droplet kernels are infrequently updated.

3. These kernels often contain relevant security vulnerabilities.

4. This has been a known issue since 2013.

5. You can kexec a kernel, but this is an annoying workaround.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-can-i-b...

Private networking is a joke

1. Your private IP addresses are accessible by everyone in the same datacenter.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-isol...

IPv6 support

1. Took forever to implement, and the timetable broke promises to customers.

2. Inferior. Digital Ocean still won't give you a /64 per standards.

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by andrewstuart »

Aren't there a bunch of offers of free cloud hosting for Startups? We should list them here.

And you don't need to be a YC company......

Microsoft Azure gives hosting to startups under their Bizspark program - get over your prejudice - it's a great way to run Linux machines.

Softlayer and Rackspace I think also have programs for startups.

Any other companies offer free hosting to startups?

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by jxm262 »

andrewstuart wrote: post #3

Aren't there a bunch of offers of free cloud hosting for Startups? We should list them here. And you don't need to be a YC company...... Microsoft Azure gives hosting to startups under their Bizspark program - get over your prejudice - it's a great way to run Linux machines. Softlayer and Rackspace I think also have programs for startups. Any other companies offer free hosting to startups?

I'd also like to see a list. Is there something that gives a comprehensive list of resources?

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by asadlionpk »

andrewstuart wrote: post #3

Aren't there a bunch of offers of free cloud hosting for Startups? We should list them here. And you don't need to be a YC company...... Microsoft Azure gives hosting to startups under their Bizspark program - get over your prejudice - it's a great way to run Linux machines. Softlayer and Rackspace I think also have programs for startups. Any other companies offer free hosting to startups?

Google has an awesome plan too https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by ceejayoz »

andrewstuart wrote: post #3

Aren't there a bunch of offers of free cloud hosting for Startups? We should list them here. And you don't need to be a YC company...... Microsoft Azure gives hosting to startups under their Bizspark program - get over your prejudice - it's a great way to run Linux machines. Softlayer and Rackspace I think also have programs for startups. Any other companies offer free hosting to startups?

AWS does as well.

https://aws.amazon.com/activate/

Re: $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

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Post by rdtsc »

tshtf wrote: post #2

Enjoy your free service, but I would avoid paying for Digital Ocean for any serious project. No custom kernel support 1. Digital Ocean does not allow you to run your own kernel natively. 2. Digital Ocean droplet kernels are infrequently updated. 3. These kernels often contain relevant security vulnerabilities. 4. This has been a known issue since 2013. 5. You can kexec a kernel, but this is an annoying workaround. ht…

> No custom kernel support

How many people run custom kernels?

I have used a kernel with realtime extensions enabled but that was a very special case and wouldn't run that in a VM anyway.

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