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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…
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…
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> Private networking is a joke > 1. Your private IP addresses are accessible by everyone in the same datacenter. This is also the case at Linode. Besides AWS VPC, are there VPS providers that give your hosts their own private VLAN?
Pretty sure Google Compute Engine puts each project in a private network.
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We have a lot of interesting stuff coming up later this year around networking. Some of it will be behind the scenes, but it is going to open up a lot of new possibilities for user-facing features. We're looking to give users a lot more control over their network while maintaining our focus on UX simplicity. Might be a good time to mention we're hiring network engineers as well: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/c…
That link is for "a software engineer on the Network team", not network engineer. Did you post the wrong link or just use bad working? I'm a network engineer but I'm not a "developer" by any means -- and there's a helluva difference!
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> I'm not saying anything about the Droplets itself, but everything seems a bit Linode inspired, but cheaper executed. I could say the same about Linode and DO (beginners) vs AWS (pro).
Linode, Slicehost (RIP), the cornucopia of LEB, prgmr, DigitalOcean and friends target hobbyists and small fleets. Their model encourages precious snowflake named machines that aren't disposable and last a while. That model also falls apart beyond on the order of 50-100 nodes, depending on admin competence and documentation. (If you are holding 1,000 machines named after stars or authors or something together with sh…
As a non-YC startup, I feel it quite unfair to be subsidizing other startups with our fees to DO. Which is a shame because I really appreciate and enjoy what the DO engineers have done. Nonetheless, I feel slighted, and while I had been otherwise happy with the service I am now all of a sudden incentivized to explore places more ecumenical. The feeling for me will probably pass, but I wonder how many other people hav…
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/me waves
I've been doing some into to linux/web development workshops at my hackerspace lately, would you guys every be interested in sponsoring one with some DO credits? (Like the first month free or something?). Also, I have some bad feedback for you (sorry). We ran a workshop last night, and during the workshop, everybody signed up for an account (about 15 people at once). Presumably because we were all connecting from the…
As a non-YC startup, I feel it quite unfair to be subsidizing other startups with our fees to DO. Which is a shame because I really appreciate and enjoy what the DO engineers have done. Nonetheless, I feel slighted, and while I had been otherwise happy with the service I am now all of a sudden incentivized to explore places more ecumenical. The feeling for me will probably pass, but I wonder how many other people hav…
We're always looking for ways to help startups get up and running on our platform. If you're not a YC company, reach out to our customer success team. They can help you get started. If you're already a DO user, they can help you scale up. https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/sales/
If your company employs less than three people then $X amount of service provided per month.
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…
> 2. Inferior. Digital Ocean still won't give you a /64 per standards. Huh? I made a droplet just a week ago and it was assigned a whole /64. Maybe this is only a recent change, but you should know that it's here now.